FIBER ARTS

Mission Statement

To weave beauty and peace into the world through creative arts, primarily fiber arts,  weaving and paper making, to work from the inside out.

Purpose

To establish a connection with an integrated variety of weaving and art styles of people throughout the world.

Goals

To create a weaving studio that sustains a living and supports an appreciation of the beauty and peace of creative arts and their makers. To create an exchange art community for people throughout the world. To create a gallery-store which artists throughout the world can exhibit and sell their works.

 

An Aspiration for the World
by H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje
 
World, we live and die in your lap. 
On you we experience all our woes and joys. 
You are our ancestral home of old.
Forever we cherish and adore you.
We wish to transform you into the pure realm of our dreams.
We wish to transform you into a land for all creatures,
Equal for all and free of prejudice.
We wish to transform you into a loving , warm, and gentle goddess.
Our hope in you is ever so resolute.
So please be the ground on which we may all live
So all these wishes may come true,
So all these wishes may come true.
Do not show us the dark side of your character,
Where nature's calamities reign.
In every section of our world's land
May there thrive a fertile field of peace and joy,
Rich with the leaves and fruits of happiness,
filled with the many sweet scents of freedom.
May we fulfill our countless and boundless wishes.

c. 2005 by H.H. the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa, Ogyen Drodul Trinley Dorje. Translated under the guidance of the Dzogchen Penlop  Rinpoche by Tyler Dewar. Musical arrangement by Christopher Staag and Tyler Dewar.  An audio file for the melody that goes with His Holiness's poem can be downloaded at www.prayer4peace.net.