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Barb Kobe's mission is designing visual metaphors for self-expression in the form of dolls, healing art, and creative, educational experiences. She is an artist, doll-maker, teacher, creativity coach, graphic designer, mentor, workshop/retreat leader, and curriculum designer. She has been and may still be: An engineering draftswoman, a graphic artist, an illustrator, a seamstress, a trainer, a crafter, a painter, a mindmapper and visual map maker, a creativity coach, a student of life, a keynote speaker, a workshop facilitator PLUS a puppet designer, creator and manufacturer a doll artist a healing artist a Reiki II healer, NLP Practioner, college graduate with BA in psychology, an unlicensed art therapist, an educational assistant in school and a volunteer for a Mental Health Association
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I began making dolls over ten years ago, using roots found in my garden, clay and fiber. My first dolls were personal explorations into deeper parts of myself. Some of my dolls helped me to release hidden parts that I, at first feared, and learned to accept and appreciate through the creative process.
I am challenged and stretched when I
search through my personal culture, moving through a process, and producing an
image that represents what I am feeling. Through these images I am able to
affirm my life, the joy and the pain, and let go of what I'm ready to release
and move toward transformation and healing.
I often use sticks, roots, materials
from nature, clay, fibers and painted fabric. I believe the act of dollmaking can take the dollmaker through a deep creative process that can bring unknown parts of self to conscious awareness, creating change.
Barb Kobe ________________________________________________________ Barb is presenting finishing up ARTbundance Creativity Coaching training through www.artellaland.com. She continues to facilitate her Medicine Dolls online class (started in 2004). A year long group experience using the curriculum by the same name. She will be offering another session of the online class called THE CREATIVE JOURNEY in 2010. It is based on the Hero’s and Heroine’s Journey and in a process involving making a game board and game pieces. She will do this in collaboration with Anne Marie Bennett of KaleidoSoul (based on SOUL COLLAGE™ book) http://www.KaleidoSoul.Com. She will be taking the SoulCollage™Facilitator’s Training in April 2010 She will be redesigning her website in 2010 that will include sales of her dolls. She will continue to sell her e-books and curriculums, along with patterns for her NUMBFULL and the FULLS, a group of feeling characters that she manufactured for over 10 years. The patterns come with a User’s Manual and "Catch ‘Em Feeling Stars" stickers.
Also in 2010 she will be beginning
a newsletter, a quarterly Zine about dollmaking and healing and a personal
blog. She will continue to develop her newest process called Designing Your
ARTfield of Dreams 2010. A combination of the Creative Journey Process and
vision boards.
Barb
Kobe
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ABOUT BARB ... Favourite colour: Right now, burnt orange Clothing: from simple tailored to eccentric hippie Fav music: Jesse Cooke, basically any acoustic guitar, drumming, Bach Fav movie: The 5th Element, Phantom of the Opera (musical), Finding Neverland, ET, Field of Dreams, What the Bleep do we know? Fav books: All of Julia Cameron's books, No Enemies Within by Dawna Markova, Women Who Run with Wolves and anything else by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Emotional Genius by Karla McClaren and most non-fiction books about creativity, art and healing, Jung and mythology. Travel: Lived in Germany for 2 years and traveled a good deal while there. Has lived in Iowa, Florida and Minnesota and traveled to New Mexico, Arizona, California and Louisiana. Sign: Capricorn Food Preferences: Anything vegetarian....Greek and Vietnamese Kids?: Yes...2 grown Children aged 25 and 23 Fav saying: "Try it and see what happens!"
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