Lily Sage
Birthday: April 20th
Affinity Animal(s) of the moment: Giraffes, snakes
Affinity Plant(s) of the moment: Astragalus (to prevent lyme disease!)
Affinity color(s) of the moment: Green & purple
Most delicious food: Truffle mushrooms
Most delectable smell/scent: Lavender & vetiver & cedar
Favorite thing about nature: That I am a part of it
How I use my time when I’m not here: Reading science-fiction & ethnography, making art with my friends, dancing, playing outside, learning, wandering & reinvigorating my own sense of awe through travel.
Lily Sage is passionate about a great many things including: the rights of all beings to be safe, happy and healthy in symbiotic song/dance; cultural exchange; community healing/ herbalism, and imparting to wee ones ancestral & earth-based skills & autonomous self-care practices through early introduction to plant allies, consent, meditation, anti-racism, and non-violent communication. She is an anti-bias Montessorian and a recipient of Wilderness Awareness mentorship and has mentored many children in kind! She has traveled a bit and has lived abroad in Mongolia (where she lived life as an anthropologist doing ethnographic research on shamanism), Costa Rica (where she learned how to dance and about having privilege as a young teen), the Czech Republic (where she learned how to make marionettes), and Germany (where she learned how to take care of her elderly relatives, how to teach ESL, and how to restore art & frame it.). She is also a practicing doula with a private art making practice.
“We give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way.”-Starhawk
“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.” “S/He absorbs the life going on about him and becomes one with it, just as these insects become one with the vegetation on which they live. The child’s impressions are so profound that a biological or psycho-chemical change takes place, by which his mind ends by resembling the environment itself. Children become like the things they love.” “The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.” - Dr. Maria Montessori
“What about whale rights? What about snail rights? What about bug rights? What about slug rights?”-Moondog
Equity in arts matters, just as equity in arts education matters, just as equity in all things matter. The reason why equity matters to me is that without it the diversity of citizen voices that are populating the polis is limited with fewer ideas being expressed, and when this is the case we are weaker as a world community. The more breadth of human experience that is given expression in a plethora of ways matching the multitude of experiences, the more we grow as a species and have the potential to evolve into a more creative compassionate culture. It is time to level the playing field, and that said, if there is a qualified candidate of a more marginalized status than I, then please offer them this position. If not, then I would love the opportunity to be able to afford to live while exploring the arts collaboratively with children and with their sharp, poignant critiques! The arts are one powerful and potent avenue through which we may express our individual voices, and a very valuable one to me that I would like to be able to share.
I’ve been afforded the opportunity to explore a great many mediums, from the fine arts (classical training in observational drawing, painting, and photography) to seamstressing, puppetry and mask-making, some limited welding, glass blowing, woodworking and jewelry making, to the conceptual and performance arts such as theater, voice, and dance. Because I am privileged to have such a rich background of trainings I would love to share what I know with youth who may not have the same opportunities as me!
As Montessori teacher as my primary trade of the moment (though I am also a permaculturalist, herbalist and doula with a background in anthropology who has worked as a picture framer, art restorer, landscaper, etc. as well as a free-lance artist) I am constantly in service, and my current pay is roughly the same as it would be working for Artist Year. I can’t really wake up in the morning and face my work (which takes up much of life in a free-market capitalist economy) if it doesn’t feel like it’s within alignment or praxis with my values and politics.
It beehoves us all to learn to better express ourselves and to have broad exposure to the arts and producing them ourselves—being a well rounded being, or as they used to say a renaissance person—having the historical points of reference are useful and so is the empowerment inherent in autonomous production. It reduces our alienation, engenders neuroplasticity through the hand to mind connection, improves concentration, confidence, problem solving-skills, and ones sense of self-worth. Working through aesthetic, design, and skilled craft-based problems also expands the bounds of the radical imagination, which we need so desperately right now as a species to find novel ways to move through our messes, and clean them up right so that we can continue to occupy this planet.
Birthday: April 20th
Affinity Animal(s) of the moment: Giraffes, snakes
Affinity Plant(s) of the moment: Astragalus (to prevent lyme disease!)
Affinity color(s) of the moment: Green & purple
Most delicious food: Truffle mushrooms
Most delectable smell/scent: Lavender & vetiver & cedar
Favorite thing about nature: That I am a part of it
How I use my time when I’m not here: Reading science-fiction & ethnography, making art with my friends, dancing, playing outside, learning, wandering & reinvigorating my own sense of awe through travel.
Lily Sage is passionate about a great many things including: the rights of all beings to be safe, happy and healthy in symbiotic song/dance; cultural exchange; community healing/ herbalism, and imparting to wee ones ancestral & earth-based skills & autonomous self-care practices through early introduction to plant allies, consent, meditation, anti-racism, and non-violent communication. She is an anti-bias Montessorian and a recipient of Wilderness Awareness mentorship and has mentored many children in kind! She has traveled a bit and has lived abroad in Mongolia (where she lived life as an anthropologist doing ethnographic research on shamanism), Costa Rica (where she learned how to dance and about having privilege as a young teen), the Czech Republic (where she learned how to make marionettes), and Germany (where she learned how to take care of her elderly relatives, how to teach ESL, and how to restore art & frame it.). She is also a practicing doula with a private art making practice.
“We give thanks for unknown blessings already on the way.”-Starhawk
“Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.” “S/He absorbs the life going on about him and becomes one with it, just as these insects become one with the vegetation on which they live. The child’s impressions are so profound that a biological or psycho-chemical change takes place, by which his mind ends by resembling the environment itself. Children become like the things they love.” “The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear.” - Dr. Maria Montessori
“What about whale rights? What about snail rights? What about bug rights? What about slug rights?”-Moondog
Equity in arts matters, just as equity in arts education matters, just as equity in all things matter. The reason why equity matters to me is that without it the diversity of citizen voices that are populating the polis is limited with fewer ideas being expressed, and when this is the case we are weaker as a world community. The more breadth of human experience that is given expression in a plethora of ways matching the multitude of experiences, the more we grow as a species and have the potential to evolve into a more creative compassionate culture. It is time to level the playing field, and that said, if there is a qualified candidate of a more marginalized status than I, then please offer them this position. If not, then I would love the opportunity to be able to afford to live while exploring the arts collaboratively with children and with their sharp, poignant critiques! The arts are one powerful and potent avenue through which we may express our individual voices, and a very valuable one to me that I would like to be able to share.
I’ve been afforded the opportunity to explore a great many mediums, from the fine arts (classical training in observational drawing, painting, and photography) to seamstressing, puppetry and mask-making, some limited welding, glass blowing, woodworking and jewelry making, to the conceptual and performance arts such as theater, voice, and dance. Because I am privileged to have such a rich background of trainings I would love to share what I know with youth who may not have the same opportunities as me!
As Montessori teacher as my primary trade of the moment (though I am also a permaculturalist, herbalist and doula with a background in anthropology who has worked as a picture framer, art restorer, landscaper, etc. as well as a free-lance artist) I am constantly in service, and my current pay is roughly the same as it would be working for Artist Year. I can’t really wake up in the morning and face my work (which takes up much of life in a free-market capitalist economy) if it doesn’t feel like it’s within alignment or praxis with my values and politics.
It beehoves us all to learn to better express ourselves and to have broad exposure to the arts and producing them ourselves—being a well rounded being, or as they used to say a renaissance person—having the historical points of reference are useful and so is the empowerment inherent in autonomous production. It reduces our alienation, engenders neuroplasticity through the hand to mind connection, improves concentration, confidence, problem solving-skills, and ones sense of self-worth. Working through aesthetic, design, and skilled craft-based problems also expands the bounds of the radical imagination, which we need so desperately right now as a species to find novel ways to move through our messes, and clean them up right so that we can continue to occupy this planet.
