First Annual Atlanta Body Art Ball

Ever since my last production in New Orleans, I have been dreaming up another fantastic body art show. And so, thanks to Randi and Ken of the Chelko Foundation and their belief in me, my dream became a reality on Saturday, July 20^th, 2013. After 6 months of intense planning, the first production ever of the Body Art Ball was put on at Atlanta’s fabulous Paris On Ponce. The Ball was a huge hit and both shows were sold out!

 The show, with 15 of Atlanta’s best performers and 15 of our most talented body artists, was the first of its kind on the Atlanta scene.  Dripping with fringe and red velvet as the backdrop, Paris on Ponce made the perfect venue for this early era style vaudeville show. The musical stylings of DJ Swivel, mixing the 1920s-1940s tunes with the contemporary gave the show that extra sense of being in a time long past.  

We were also blessed to have as our guest Ring Leader, Body Paint Girl AKA Adelle Lennox.  Joining us all the way from Maui, her character added the perfect element of comic relief, leaving our audience feeling inspired and delighted. Video of 2013 Body Art Ball by Tim Cofield
Many thanks to all of the artists, performers, and crew that made the Body Art Ball a smashing success! To learn more about the event and participating performers please visit the Body Art Ball website.

The Beginning

The Art of EnRapturing is not just a blog about my own life and art. It is also about the many artists and experiences that I meet who enrapture us all, bringing intense joy and pleasure into our lives through their presence.

The name for my business, EnRapturing ReVisions came about almost 20 years ago. I was a young adult living in a broken-down school bus in Arizona, on a goat farm. I loved the Sonoran desert like a mother from the instant I met her and so I moved there to be close to Spirit and to do an art show at a small gallery in Tucson.

I was very poor, living off of food stamps. I had made some money as an artist previously, by selling handmade jewelry to strippers, the only people I knew who always had cash in hand, and so I thought I would make lingerie from recycled leather, pieces to sell to them. I thought for weeks on a name that would encompass this as well as my passion for collecting junque for reuse in art, which was precisely what my upcoming art show was all about.

I could see that people got great pleasure from seeing my “satellite babies”. So I thought they must be ENRPAPTURED by the beauty I had created from junque, which I had found and RE-VISIONED into art, all of which I knew was divinely inspired.

But I guess this passion really begin in my childhood. With an avid recycler for a Mom (who caught on before there was even a good place for the average citizen to take their recycling), I realized early on, how important it would be in the future, to help the planet by recycling and reusing whenever possible.

And as long ago as I can remember, there was never a doubt in my mind that I would grow up to be an artist of some kind. It was the one thing I knew for sure about my future.  I even decided that being an artist was so much a part of me, that I would be a natural at it and no schooling after high school would even be necessary. Had I thought otherwise, perhaps the road might have been a LOT easier…....but not nearly as fun and adventurous!