Have a Bee a Nature Creator
Arts and Media camp
Austin, TX
Arts and Media camp
Austin, TX
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Bee a Nature Creator.
My name is Mary Kraemer. I’m a nature creator artist and teacher. I love to really work with people where they are with nature. My hope is to help more people create more familial bonds of love for the environment in this critical time. I work in different settings to combine art and nature programming. My experiences include: elderly centers, therapeutic children’s home, adults with disabilities, “Artist in Residence”, all age and ability summer camps.
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The mission of the CCCC:
Exploring our creativity to find new Climate Solutions, tap into our creativity and explore ideas like biomimicry, biomass, carbon sequestration. Playing creatively with these concepts can lead to unheard of innovation and discoveries. Today there is great need for innovation for the role of carbon in our lives as well as for future generations. Powerful impacts can be made when the young and old are creatively resisting and working together can we achieve this goal and utilizing our resources as a community. Working in collaboration with each other, the carbon cycle and mother earth to bring carbon into balance, we can all together fight climate change. |
As president of Austin Organic Gardeners, I hope to lead others in responsible cultivation, sustainability, organic education, fruit growing, change making and active empathetic leadership.
I love to bring healing with horticultural art experiences to you. Schedule your group, class, or just one on one; contact me Let's set it up! |
In my “Bee a Nature Creator, we explored natural green magic and express our feelings using nature’s language. With wind, water, earth, climate, flowers, we used digital devices, to record nature’s expressions and made stop motion animation, videos, sound and photo stories and natural art out in nature with natural materials on hand. Bee A Nature Creator invites participants to explore their own relationship with the environment while sharing stories and creating with natural, traditional, and digital art materials and techniques. All content created during this course will be compiled and processed into shareable images, video clips, and podcasts. The goal of this project is to cultivate an interest, knowledge, and awareness of media creation and the world around us.
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When teaching, it’s important to develop new relationships with nature and hard to achieve. Communities really suffer from a lack of nature in everyday life. My hope is to bring nature in to hearts and minds. We no longer have to go outside to grow food to eat, or go to the stream to collect water, or make a shelter, so we don’t notice the changes in the environment. 
“You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.” Thich Nhat Hanh
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I love to provide inspiration and what right action for others to do. I do this by adding layers of understanding, multisensory experiences. My classes include: gardening, nature art, flower arranging, painting murals, tile mosaic, weaving, digital media, stop motion animation, storytelling, climate club, and earth art activism (#earthivism).
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Some of my videos from my YouTube channel
Animation Storytelling with Community Collaboration with Johnny Villarreal, Art Spark Texas And The Garden of Rosa Milagrosa
Because It’s YOU I like! Thanks for watching! Here are my videos I made to explain how to make a worm bin
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Animation Storytelling with Community Collaboration with Johnny Villarreal, Art Spark Texas And The Garden of Rosa Milagrosa
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The environment needs our attention right now. We don’t have a bond with it for our survival. So now more than ever these bonds need to be formed with all the love in our hearts. Mister Rogers says "Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people." |
