Rhythm & Ritual: marking time through daily ritual with Megan Driving Hawk
Rhythm & Ritual, marking time through daily ritual with Megan Driving Hawk
May 21st - June 19th (5 weeks)
Thursdays, 1 - 3 pm EDT on Zoom
How can ritual become a portal through which one can access deep time, inhabited time, and time-out-of time simultaneously? In this practice group we will develop unique field guides to create authentic daily ritual practices attuned with seasonal rhythms.
How do past and future happen in the present? How do we access ancestral memory that lives in the body? What does it mean to say the land and where our bodies hold memory?
Can the act of making a photograph be sacred? If we make physical photographic objects in ritual and ceremony and intend for them to be left in legacy, does that change how we photograph and the meaning we give to the act of making? How can ritual and ceremony help you develop an ongoing practice of noticing and honoring the Earth’s elements and seasons?
We will find inspiration in short readings and quotes on themes of legacy, seasonal time, memory, ancestral memory, reciprocity, spiritual time and poetic time. Starting with the quote by Douglas Good Feather, “… the behaviors of our human experiences, here on earth, are reflections of the movements of the celestial bodies above us.”
This practice group will meet online once a week for 5 weeks and focus on conceptual rather than technical discussion. All levels of photographers are welcome.
Megan Driving Hawk is an artist/mother/educator using habits of the heart to facilitate connection, healing, and learning through photography, poetry, & traditional needlework. Creatively, she researches collective healing, trauma, memory, and time. Academically, she researches culturally responsive fine arts education. She earned a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Arizona State University, an MEd in Secondary Education with K-12 Art certification from ASU, and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Hartford.
As a National Board-Certified Teacher, she has spent over 10 years in the classroom creating and teaching a culturally responsive art education curriculum. She has served as Indigenous Student Advisor, Teacher Equity Lead, Visual Arts Lead, National Arts Honor Society Advisor among others. Currently she is the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Rep for the Arizona Art Education Association, a Running with Purpose Artist/Athlete Advocate, and a member of Kinship Photography Collective.
Her artwork has been reviewed, collected, and exhibited numerous times throughout the present-day U.S. and internationally, including the ASU Art Museum and the Tempe Public Works Collection. She has been invited as a guest lecturer, workshop facilitator, and panelist for various events at the national, state, & local levels. Driving Hawk has received numerous honors and awards, including honorable mention in the 2020 Women Photographing Women category of the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 2023 artist-in-residence at the Tempe Center for the Arts, 2023 Arizona Art Educator of the Year, and 2025 Agent of Change in Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion.
Driving Hawk currently lives in the Sonoran Desert on O’odham, Yavapai, Akimel O’odham (Upper Pima) and Hohokam lands (present-day Phoenix, Arizona). She is a white wife & mother of two in a Lakȟóta Thiwáhe. Her life is a residency in Matrescence & outdoor learning through Indigenous ways of knowing.
