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During July, ArtXchange Gallery and Judy Shintani invite you to participate in a month of Mandala making!

History:
California Bay Area artist Judy Shintani created a Facebook Group for artists to create and share 12 mandalas during the first 12 days of 2014. These mandalas would represent a corresponding month in the order that the mandalas were created. Artists selected words to describe the creations. Over 300 artists from around the country and other parts of the world used a wide range of materials and processes to create some amazing mandalas.

Artists are continuing to create 4 mandalas each month using their original one made back in January as a jumping of place.

Many artists made new online connections with artists in different places and the posted mandalas inspired new ways of making.

“This was meant to be a daily meditation, a bit of art for us to do each day…” – Judy Shintani

Now:
Inspired by this unique online community, ArtXchange Gallery and Judy Shintani decided to create an online experience in association with the Mandala: Contemporary Interpretations of the Ancient Form exhibition.

During July, ArtXchange Gallery and Judy Shintani invite you to participate in a month of Mandala making! We call artists and the creatively inclined to create 4 mandala images along with a word describing them during the month of July, one each week, and share them in the Mandala Facebook group or on your wall with the hashtag #mandala.

If you would like to participate anonymously or are not active on Facebook, you may send images to info@artxchange.org and they will be posted in the group.

There are no rules or boundaries to what you can create – photographs, drawings, assemblages from any materials (including food!) – we simply ask that you use your creative time as a meditation and time to reflect.

You are also invited to give feedback on posted mandalas. Please go a little deeper with your thoughts. How about expressing what feelings that come up when seeing the mandala, your thoughts or memories that it inspires?

Join the fun!

Here is the link to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1432271736990433/

All images on this page are by artists from the Mandala Facebook group.

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Thank you to the participating artists from the January Mandala project! All images on this page are courtesy of these artists and creatives.

Join them by participating on Facebook!

  • Agnis J. Pena Toro
  • Amoret Sprunt Phillips
  • Amy Allen
  • Amy Hassan
  • Amy O’Connell
  • Andrienne Asher
  • Angela Adrar
  • Anne Maria Stone
  • Apige Tighe
  • Asia Morgenthaler
  • Barbara Lewicki
  • Betsy Spaniol Funk
  • Carol Morris
  • Carol Zocholl
  • Caroline Bond
  • Caryl Henry
  • Caterina Martinico
  • Clifford Hunt
  • Dana Goldstein
  • Dasha Bogdanova
  • Debra Torger
  • Denny MacDonald
  • Donna Bodner Papenhausen
  • Erica Jayne Dahlquist
  • Fiona Grace
  • Gina Gyorkos
  • Gracie Amethyst
  • Irma Mora
  • Isabella Murphy
  • Jane Lewis
  • Janine Miller
  • Janni Smith
  • Judy Johnson-Williams
  • Judy Ramney
  • Judy Shintani
  • Judy Valencia
  • Julie C Turner
  • Julie Lynn McIntyre
  • Kat Beauliere
  • Kayla Kirsch
  • Kristin Heron
  • Kthleen Horne
  • La Yackie
  • Lainey Sainte Marie
  • Laura Anderson
  • Linda Theroff
  • Linda Wenmark
  • Lisa Undercoffler
  • Liz Jones
  • Lucien Kubo
  • lumi Richard-Crow
  • Ma Jones
  • Maggie Bethel
  • Mariko Shewmake
  • Megan Doherty Carlock
  • Meta Orear
  • Nicole Cherry Burns
  • Orchid Dave
  • Patricia Wolfenden
  • Paulette Gill
  • Priscilla Otani
  • Rachel Leanna
  • Rachelle Hartley
  • Red Poppy
  • Reiko Fujii
  • Ryl Brock Wilson
  • Salma Arasta
  • Sharon Firemaid
  • Stacy Stall Wills
  • Susan Vaughn
  • Tamara Teeter Knapp
  • Tierza Nolan
  • Topaz Weis
  • Vicki Cormack
  • Victoria Woodrow

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Step 1: Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1432271736990433/
Or participate offline by emailing your images to info@artxchange.org

Step 2: Create one Mandala image each week during the month of July

Step 3: Post your images in the group or on your wall with the hashtag #mandala
Choose one word that represents your mandala

Step 4: Interact with the group – quietly experience Mandalas by artists from around the world, or get involved by giving feedback and impressions![/tab]

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