http://erinstack.net M.F.A., M.A.: Artist, Educator, Creative Consultant Wed, 16 May 2012 02:59:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Artist's consultant What stops you from reaching your artistic potential? Has fear and/or loss of meaning blocked your creative practice? Optimal Creative flow happens when you can free your mind's energy from worry about failure and guilt. This freedom will allow you to focus on the present creative moment. I call ... http://erinstack.net/2009/01/creative-block/ In this era of rapid transition, stress and flux, success will go to those that can adapt and innovate. Creative people are imaginative, disciplined, highly perceptive, fluid thinkers who see both the big picture and subtleties of detail. It is these creative individuals who will thrive, breaking out of habitual ... http://erinstack.net/2009/01/why-creativity-counseling/ After many years of teaching at the University of Iowa and working and exhibiting as an abstract painter, Erin left the art world. She pursued her psychology degree and worked in addictions counseling, spiritual healing, and creativity training. Moved by her spiritual practice in both Zen and Christian communities, Erin ... http://erinstack.net/2009/01/green-artists-league/ Inspired by Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Buddhist Cosmology, "Metamorphosis: Hungry Ghost" is a cautionary tale of excessive consumption. Created for Earth Day, 2008, Erin Stack escorted Stephenie Strogeny, who had been transformed into a ravenous ghoul, through the streets of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Stack would tell people about the sad tale of Stephenie, ... http://erinstack.net/2009/01/metamorphosis-hungry-ghost/ [caption id="attachment_196" align="aligncenter" width="614" caption="New Eden Organic Community Gardens August, 2010"][/caption] 2008-Present In the spring of 2008, I became the organizer and director of First Parish Church of Newbury's  environmental mission the New Eden Collaborative. The New Eden Collaborative brings together [caption id="attachment_198" align="alignright" width="300" caption="New Eden mural inprogress"][/caption] church congregants,  Greater Newburyport CSA ... http://erinstack.net/2009/01/csa/ Erin Stack and architect Stephenie Strogney collaborate annually on roaming eco- interventions. “Savage Rituals”, Earth Day, 2007, Newburyport, MA This performance addresses Americans anxious, projected as romanticized, relationship to Nature. Our “friendly” polar bear greeted people on the street and in commercial establishments. The bear offered the gift of cards describing assorted ... http://erinstack.net/2009/01/savage-rituals/ [gallery] ARTIST’S STATEMENT In 1996 I left the art world to become more fully a human being. My teaching and painting had reached an impasse where I no longer felt I was true to my call. In the subsequent 9 years I raised children, became a therapist, and dived into my Zen ... http://erinstack.net/2009/01/2-d-work/