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Barb Kobe began making dolls over ten years ago using roots found in her garden. Her first dolls were explorations into deeper, parts of herself. Some of her dolls helped her to release hidden parts that she, at first feared, and then learned to accept and to appreciate through the creative process. She is challenged and stretched when she searches through her internal environment, moving through the creative process, and producing an image that represents a feeling. Through these images she is able to affirm her life process, the joy and the pain, surrender and let go of what she is willing to release and move toward transformation and healing.

Most of her inspirations come from other cultures' spiritual and healing symbols. These images add meaning to her doll images. Other inspiration comes from words, her art journals, nature, and her healing process. She also enjoys designing - playing with possibilities, allowing her imagination to flow free and surprising herself with a doll that often makes her laugh, and sometimes cry. She use sticks, roots, materials from nature, air dry clay, fibers and hand-painted and embellished fabrics.

Women's issues, emotions, empowerment, spirituality and healing are the threads that weave through her work. She is passionate about the subject of art and healing. She believes the act and art of doll-making can take the doll-maker through a deep creative process that can bring unknown parts of self to conscious awareness, creating change.

Barb is presenting working on taking her curriculum and turning it into e-books and online group learning experiences.

She is teaching an online class called MEDICINE DOLLS. A year long group experience using the curriculum by the same name.

She will soon be offering another class called THE CREATIVE JOURNEY (based on the Hero’s and Heroine’s Journey) in collaboration with Anne Marie Bennett of KaleidoSoul (based on SOUL COLLAGE book) http://www.KaleidoSoul.Com

In 2008 she plans on opening a store on EBAY and her THE DOLLMAKING CIRCLE curriculum will be available in e-book form.

Also available are 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.

www.barbkobe.com

 Barb Kobe
Minneapolis, Minnesota

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