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Contemplating Awe: Seeing Beauty

ONSITE | Sunday, March 5, 4:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Instructor: Susan Patrice

$35 Non-member Adult**

(**Arboretum Members receive a 10% discount on all classes.)

Course Capacity: 15

Walking with an eye toward the wonders around you during an otherwise ordinary walk could have significant benefits for your mental health. Interesting new psychological studies contend that people who take a fresh look at the objects, moments and vistas that surround them during brief “awe walks” experience significant health benefits, not the least of which includes feeling happier and more hopeful. 

Step off on this slow intentional walk in the Arboretum forest and Forest Meadow with documentary photographer Susan Patrice who helps you focus an experience of place through new and loving eyes, to see beauty and wonder in your surroundings. Bring cameras or phones to capture what calls to you in the enveloping landscape. 

Susan Patrice is a documentary photographer, community artist, and founder of Makers Circle. She recently launched Kinship Photography Collective, a global community of practice designed to create rich visual conversations that explore the intimate connections between nature, culture and belonging. Susan's own photography and public installations focus primarily on the Southern Landscape and its people and feature intimate images that touch deeply into the questions of place, gender, and belonging.

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