Explorations in Ancient Arts
Our Mission
Willow Deer Education seeks to give modern peoples a chance to re-connect to their ancient roots via Ancestral Arts education programs. Using only the tools and materials that our ancient ancestors had available to them from the natural world, we will not only explore how they made these unique cultural items but most importantly, why?
Why did Our Ancestors…
…spend valuable time and resources making beads and ornaments, pigments and paintings when these activities would not feed, clothe or shelter them?
What were the cultural, social or traditional reasons driving them to create these unique items?
Willow Deer Education workshops, classes and programs seek to answer these questions and give our modern selves a chance to re-connect to a natural world in which we all once totally relied on.
Charles Kritzon, Ancestral Arts Educator
Charles Kritzon is proud to offer this list of ancestral arts and skills classes and workshops. These subjects can be presented as a lecture, a demonstration or as a hands-on class. All presentations are tailored to the age or need of each particular group.
His teaching is focused to highlight our human connection to the past and that natural world in which we sustainably acquired everything we needed not only to survive but to thrive and create complex art objects and cultural traditions.
Charles is a Certified Interpretive Guide through the National Association for Interpretation (NAI).
Who Wants to Know?
Parents
Check out our list of Ancestral Arts hands-on classes that we bring to your group!
Charter Schools
We are already teaching programs for many Charter and Home School Groups. Contact us to join your school today!
Cultural Centers
Contact us to learn how we can present these unique art and culture programs and classes at your location.
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