Grailville Retreat and Education Center in Loveland, OH joins with the Inside/Outside Multi-Arts Project Program to offer The Art of Living: A Women's Multi-Arts Retreat.  This is a weekend of writing, visual and movement arts to help women from all walks of life reconnect with their "hand-made lives." The retreat is open to women at any (or no!) experience level in any of the art forms. Led by artist Diane Debevec, dancer Gloria Esenwein and writer Pauletta Hansel, the Women’s Multi-Arts Retreat will include time for individual and group creativity, rest and reflection, community-building and fun!

Inside/Outside provides arts programs to women in River City Correctional Center who desire to recover, establish or enrich lives with depth and meaning. The retreat will also provide an opportunity to learn about volunteer possibilities within Inside/Outside’s work with incarcerated women.   Grailville is an environmental, education and retreat center located on an organic farm near Loveland, OH and dedicated to spiritual search, social actions, ecological sustainability and the release of women’s creative energy throughout the world. 

Presenters:

Diane Debevec is a Cincinnati artist specializing in oil and pastel landscape and waterscape painting, as well as paintings in a variety of mediums for private and commissioned sale. 

Gloria Esenwein is a dancer/performer, choreographer and educator who has taught and led movement and dance classes/workshops for over 20 years.

Pauletta Hansel (Grailville’s Co-Director) is a poet, teacher and author of two collections of poetry, Divining (WovenWord Press) and First Person (Dos Madres Press).