Peace, Dreams, and Love Supreme: Embodying Turtle Wisdom with Betty LaDuke

June 7, 2025 | 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. | Leaven Community Center

5431 NE 20th Ave, Portland OR 97211

Participants are invited to join us a half hour before and/or after each workshop for snacks and community building time (optional).

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Betty LaDuke is a legendary artist, writer, and educator with a career spanning more than seventy-five years and dozens of countries. Her exhibitions have graced top museums, publications, and permanent collections worldwide.  

In recent years, Betty has been painting turtles in her iconic, soulful style, which represent personal, playful, and political aspects of being, nurtured by and nurturing themes including peace, dreams, protection, and love supreme. In their turtle wisdom, they ask us to consider how to live with each other (in the words of poet Joy Harjo), and what Mary Oliver called “the doorway into thanks, a silence in which another voice may speak.”  

In this So Much Together event, Betty will engage in conversations around her work and various forms of imagination and collaboration, informed by her many adventures. Then, participants will be invited to embody the turtles and interact with each other in a guided exploration that will expand possibilities for how we experience and imagine the personal, playful, and political in our own lives and communities.   

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Cost

Sliding Scale: $0-25

Contact

r.medina@oregonhumanities.org