lauren raine

LAUREN RAINE, MFA

www.rainewalker.com

LAUREN RAINE is a visionary artist, ritualist, choreographer and mask artist. Her MFA is from the University of Arizona and BFA from the University of California at Berkeley. She studied traditions of “Temple masks” in Bali, and produced collaborative masks with Balinese master mask artists including Ida Bagus Anom which were exhibited at Buka Creati Gallery in Ubud, Bali. In 1999 she made 25 multi-cultural masks of Goddesses for The Spiral Dance at Ft. Mason Center in San Francisco; since then she has directed ritual theatre productions with the collection, and workshops assisting women to access the Divine Feminine with the art of the mask, most recently at the Kripalu Institute and Lilydale. The Masks of the Goddess traveled throughout the U.S. - productions include “Goddess" (by Serene Zloof) at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, New York, N.Y., "Restoring the Balance" at Nations Hall Theatre in Tucson, Arizona, and "A Rainbow of Goddesses" (by Macha Nightmare) at the New College of California.

In 2007 she received a fellowship with the Alden Dow Creativity Center at Northwood University and a Puffin Grant for her “Spider Woman” Community Arts Project, and in 2009 she will be a resident at the Henry Luce Center for the Arts at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Recent exhibitions include a 2-person show of paintings at Turn of the Century Gallery in Berkeley, California (2005), Sacred Icons at the Artisans Center of Virginia (2005), Sacred Space/Sacred Mask (with Catherine Nash, 2004) at The Muse Community Arts Center in Tucson, Arizona.

Lauren authored four limited edition art books in 2008, including “The Masks of the Goddess – Sacred Masks and Sacred Dance” , “Spider Woman’s Hands - Weaving a New Web”, and The Artist's Oracular Cookbook". They are available for sale at www.blurb.com/bookstore

"Lauren probes the limits of whatever medium she addresses. The questions her art
raises are deeply significant questions."

Robin Larsen, THE CENTER FOR SYMBOLIC STUDIES