I met Linda Howe at The NJ Storytelling Conference on Sunday and she mentioned she is eager to work in NJ libraries this summer so I said I would share her info.   (reproduced below -- she has a website in development but it is not yet finished)

 Linda Howe        

908-464-3338/ cell: 973-476-1401

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The Art Spirit, Nature, Storytelling, Painting, Touch Drawing, Mosaics, Murals, and Poetry

 Videotape, sample art, and references available upon request.  (She has done performances at the Library of the Chathams -- contact Diane O'Brien,  the director of the Library of  the Chathams, for details.)

  Languages: English/ some Spanish

 Linda Howe is a painter, writer, poet and  storyteller who captivates audiences with tales and myths from cultures around the world.  Her repertoire includes humorous and dramatic tales for all ages. Sometimes she illustrates a story as she tells it , and likes to include humor, creative writing, audience participation, encouraging appreciation for  life and our natural world. She also uses music, Touch Drawing, inspirational poetry, puppets, or unusual objects. She has won Educational Grants for residencies, created a multi-media performances about Women’s History, Handling Bullies, Native American Cosmologies and the Life Cycle of Trees. She enjoys building community through storytelling, nature study, group process and collaborative art works at Museums, art centers,  pre-schools, elementary and private schools, retirement, centers, nursing, civic, scout groups, wilderness camps, and assisted living and art centers. She is on the faculty of the Yard School of Art at the Montclair Museum and conducts classes, workshops, parties, as well as studio lessons, for adults and children there and privately.

 

 

Programs Available and tailored to your needs. Costs depend on time, program goals, material costs and number participating.

 

 Touch Drawing: Touch Drawing is a wonderful process to be used as a response to music and poetry. It employs direct use of one or both hands. There is no contact with the paint itself, if done carefully. This process is great for relating to nature or environments and for self-knowledge, delightful discovery, self awareness, and fun! Suitable for all ages. Materials: water soluble oils out of a tube ( Winsor Newton), 4” Speedball soft rubber brayers, plexi –glass plates for each 18”x22”,or masonite panels cut to any size and shape you like,  light weight drawing paper, 50 lb. sulphite is best. The prints are done on flat tables or easels and we need sinks for wash up, a well lit and ventilated space, and lots of room to hang, dry and display drawings. List of material costs available. Purchase online via Dick Blick Art Suppliers. This has been my specialty for over 12 years.

 

Storytelling Performance: I will prepare stories and tell them dramatically, and work with your theme if you like. I have special favorites like Native American Star Legends, or humorous tales, or wisdom tales from different cultures. It’s a great way to travel around the world. Often I Touch Draw or get the audience to participate. I can also do workshops about teaching storytelling, for teachers, children or adults.  I enjoy facilitating group work to draw out the wisdom of our personal stories and relate them to themes and each other to honor our humanity, humor, differences, common grounds, mysteries, wisdom and intrinsic dignity and worth.

 

Mural Design and execution: Do you have a wall area, or door, or place that lacks life, energy, and interest that might be improved if it was beautiful and enchanting? Or are you a group that would like to design one for yourself or a school that would like to improve a hallway and you need coaching and help collaborating together? Materials include brushes, buckets, sponges, usually water based paints or acrylics, and research and planning and large paper for scale and transfer of designs.

 

 

 

Professional Experience 

 

  Linda is an experienced educator, visual artist, and storyteller. Originally trained as an artist in the USA and Italy, then certified to teach Art k-12 in the Boston Public School System, she went on to develop a broad set of educational, artistic, skills and experiences, applicable across a wide range of ages and educational contexts.

 

  She has taught pre-school children, on   through adults to elders, in classroom, library, wilderness camp, assisted living, special education classes, senior, youth, and community centers, and religious settings, utilizing the visual and oral arts, to educate and illustrate across the curriculum, including Math, Social Studies, World Geography, and Biology.  

 

  She has done over 90 storytelling performances in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in the past 2 dozen years, winning educational grants and funding, for a multimedia history performance, residencies, as well as art residencies combining art, music, history and poetry, involving the entire school community.

 

   Her story performances encourage and invite each us to find our common ground and places in the great mythic story traditions with humor, compassion, intuition, and imagination.

 

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