home safe projects
ART: Alvin P. Gregorio. OD on Love and Cash Me Outside.
Home Safe Project : Riding with Death, Fall 2022
What else does hol sum Do? Home Safe Projects.
creative practice facilitation one/one & small group.
Creative Practice Facilitation is a partnership with Rebecca in a thought-provoking and creative process that empowers confidence in one’s own potential. Creative Practice Facilitation is oriented toward developing self supporting habits and promoting creative mind. Creative mind is proven to increase a sense of ease and possibility in oneself, which is an important way of navigating life's challenges. Spending time together, all hands engage in learning craft-based art that can be practiced anytime while not in session. The doing will be the craft work while remaining open to the being self’s thoughts, questions, ideas and memories that may arise as part of the process of creativity. This is truly an offering for proactive mental health development.
Recreative Denver Workshops - Spring 2024
Saturday, April 20, Beadwork in Black and White (intro to peyote stitch off-loom beadweaving) and
Sunday May 5 Beadwork in Color (advance from intro course!)
Grief is a Garden: Tending the Heart Through Spring at Denver Botanic Gardens, Sundays 1-4pm October - November 2024
Conscious Grief tending through creative studio practice. No artistic experience required - only willingness and curiosity. (This is a 5 session course to be posted on the Denver Botanic Gardens website shortly! but please see the event page to connect about interest.
Reverse Appliqué sewing technique Workshop at ReCreative Denver, TBA
Beadwork One to three day workshops learning either the peyote stitch or the brick stitch - two common and infinitely applicable beading techniques using seed-beads. We’ll learn the stitch, practice, consider the process and make a special offering for yourself or an other to wear. Beadwork is a fine method for contemplative mindfulness practice.
Mindful Drawing One to two day workshops for the learning and practice of contemplative mindfulness applied during creative work. Creativity can be very challenging to the ego, so why not practice how to respond constructively to the inner critic? “This is not a drawing that needs to be “good,” but a drawing that is showing me what I can not see any other way.”
Silent Day Retreat : Music, Mindfulness, Gourmet Lunch, and Contemplative Drawing facilitated by Charlie Smiles and Rebecca Peebles (Hol Sum) and hosted by Home Safe Projects in NE Denver, CO
9am -3:30pm - reach out to coordinate a date for your group. Minimum of 4 people required.
Give yourself an ever-widening sense of ease by joining us for Silent Day Retreat. Together with Musician and Mindfulness facilitator Charlie Smith (Charlie Smiles) and Artist and Creative Practice facilitator Rebecca Peebles (Hol Sum), we will spend the morning gathered for guided silent meditation accompanied by music, followed by a delicious, gourmet lunch (mindful of your health and dietary needs), and an afternoon of contemplative drawing practice. After a day-cation like this, likely all participants will end the day’s retreat feeling grounded and recharged.
Hosted by Home Safe Projects in NE Denver’s Cole neighborhood. Participants will be given the address upon registration confirmation.
Please connect with Rebecca home.safe.projects.co@gmail.com for more information if required.
Workshops - offered/available, ages 12+
exhibitions?
Art can be difficult to relate to in a gallery exhibition space, so Home Safe is a method of exhibiting work in a domestic setting wherein the intimacy of hand-crafted art takes precedence to objectification. The artist(s) and guests can share in the work together and take advantage of the comfort of home to showcase the animating quality of art and craft’s soulful expression.
Riding with Death - paintings by Alvin Gregorio and Prayers - paintings by Hector Zaragoza October - December 2022
The experience of professional exhibition through the lens of domesticity and familial experience.
ANIMA : small artworks by artists you think you know. December 2023 - January 2024
For the artists : Exercising creative mutuality to explore what opposes the Persona yet is the animating facility within professional art practice.
The next Home Safe project will begin May, 2024.
The results
“Remembering Human being through contemplative craft.”
— Rebecca Peebles
Art: Anthony Garcia Sr. White Washed 2. 2021