Grailville offers
educational programs on women’s issues and concerns in order to help
individuals—women and men—develop
their full inner potential and empower them to enact social change. Check the Events and Programs page for
upcoming programs.
Overall goals toward the
empowerment of women are:
• to increase women’s
awareness of their value as creative human persons;
• to unite women in
solidarity and community across social divisions of class, race, religion, age,
culture, and sexual orientation;
• to encourage and support
women in becoming able and responsible agents for social change;
• to help women gain their
public, social, political and theological voices;
• and to deepen feminist
theologizing.
Empowering Women Through The Arts
The arts have always been
integral to life at Grailville, whether expressed in rituals and retreats or
through helping others explore their creativity. Grailville celebrates women’s journeys as
expressed through their artistic creations and supports the belief that women’s
artistic stories are their sacred texts.
Workshops and events
geared toward empowering women through the arts have recently included: Poetry
Workshops, Plein Aire
Painting, Quilts for Peace, progressive theatre monologues and presentations,
women’s art exhibits, and concerts by the Ann Arbor Grail Singers.
In addition, The
Grailville Store and Web Store devote space and attention to women’s creative
arts, a wide array of handcrafted fair-trade items (made by both women and
men), plus the work of Grail artists like Trina Paulus, well-known sculptor and
author of Hope for the Flowers, and
CDs by the Ann Arbor Grail Singers.
Top right: Earth Spirits by Barbara Yates, Grailville's 2004-2005 Artist-in-Residence.
Above left: Advent Madonna by Grail member Trina Paulus
Bottom right: Father Playing with Child by Trina Paulus
