"Scribbling is a Way of Caring" is the theme of a new exhibit to be featured at the InterCultural Center Gallery at Sonoma State University from August 21 to September 14. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Thursday, August 23 from 6 to 9 p.m.
A special scribbling workshop will be held 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 30 where interested persons can try this art therapy technique for themselves.
"Scribbling belongs to everybody." says Jane Vogel-Riley, a graduate of the Art Therapy Program in Psychology/Special Sessions at Sonoma State University.
Inspired by the Art Therapy scribble process, Vogel-Riley has developed a therapeutic tool and an artistic medium that encompasses a creative interaction with pen and paper. She engaged the scribble process while creating over one thousand scribbles and then finding images developed within the lines and spaces of scribbles. The exhibit features 30 of her works.
"As children we scribble naturally. Far from being meaningless and random, scribbles are our first means of representing our inner and outer worlds," she says. Vogel-Riley says her work and exhibit shows how "in later life we can return to scribbling as a way to make our "bodyspirit" experience in the world visible."
For Vogel-Riley, scribbling provides a safe place to be genuine, as well as "a path of liberation of self from victim into valiant one, from defeat into success, and from disbelief into wonder."
The exhibit was funded in part by the ICC Gallery, the SSU Alumni Association and Luther Burbank Savings. The InterCultural Center Gallery is open Monday -Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Friday 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. A general parking fee on campus is $2.50 on Monday through Thursdays.
For further information, call the ICC Gallery at (707) 664-2710.
