Exhibiting Artist Talk with Mardie Luppold

Join us on Wednesday, April 30 at 2pm to hear exhibiting artist Mardie Luppold share the inspirations behind her collection on display in the Fivesparks Gallery – Archetypes: Making the Invisible, Visible.  

Mardie will fascinate you in describing her progression of interests and in-depth studies of ancient cultures and belief systems that resulted in the creation of the ‘Kachina’ series.  References of Baba Yaga and deified spirits dating from neolithic and paleolithic times, the study of work by Marija Giumbutas in excavating neolithic and paleolithic matrilineal societies, and cultures similar to our own First Nations in North and South America as well as contemporary examples in Siberia and Central Asia.  The existence of Denisovan DNA in modern-day shamanistic peoples, such as Tibetans, Amazonian and Southeast Pacific peoples, among others, will be discussed. 

Finally, Jungian theory ties it all together with exploration of the ‘Collective Unconsciousness,’  wherein lies the archetypes, racial memory, planetary and galactic memory, and our connection to the Earth, each other and all sentient life. 

This is a free event.