Author: sporastudios

The Bridge Project

The Bridge Project

A community project exploring the use of art as a way to build bridges across differences in the Shenandoah Valley at a time of national polarization. Organized by Heather Davis and Tammy Ruggiero of United ShenValley Artists and Mark Cooley, Beth Hall, and Celia Cooley […]

SubHerban Roots

SubHerban Roots

SubHerban Roots LLC was a 5 year project (2013-2018) by Beth Hall, Mark Cooley and Celia Cooley that explored the interdependence of ecological and human health through the practice of home-scale permaculture (land healing), the production of plant medicines (body healing), and community supported agriculture […]

Portrait Commissions

Portrait Commissions

Beth Hall has been a commissioned portrait artist for over 25 years with clients throughout the United States. If you would like to receive information regarding a commission, including price list, procedures and sample contract please use the contact page  Learn more about Beth Hall. […]

Private Instruction: Art & The Creative Self

Private Instruction: Art & The Creative Self

Art & The Creative Self Individualized instruction in drawing, painting and multimedia from Beth Hall, artist and professor of art with over 20 years of experience teaching and producing work for galleries, museums and commission. Please get in touch with us at – info@sporastudios.org for […]

Private Instruction: The Art of Guitar

Private Instruction: The Art of Guitar

Personalized lessons covering techniques in a wide variety of musical styles from acoustic fingerstyles to post-rock. Lessons include: Practical music theory and how to use it; Learning by ear and by sight; Learning how to improvise and Jam; Learning how to write and home-record your […]

Proposal: Darmstadt Food Forest

Proposal: Darmstadt Food Forest

Proposal for The 9. International Forest Art Path – “Art Ecology” and the 7. International Forest Art Conference in Darmstadt The 9. Internationaler Darmstädter Waldkunstpfad organised by The International Forest Art Association (IFAA) – Verein für Internationale Waldkunst e.V., Darmstadt, Germany Curator: Ute Ritschel, Guest […]

Permaculture Consultation & Design

Permaculture Consultation & Design

Permaculture: Consultation & Design We offer consultation and design services specializing in small-scale sustainable landscaping and living systems based on the permaculture ethics of care for the earth, care for people, and the fair sharing of one’s bounty with others and with the earth. Consultation […]

Proposal: Spora Sanctuary Garden

Proposal: Spora Sanctuary Garden

Proposal Developed for 9. Waldkunstpfad Kunst Ökologie, 2018 organised by The International Forest Art Association (IFAA) – Verein für Internationale Waldkunst e.V., Darmstadt, Germany Curators: Ute Ritschel, Sue Spaid The Guild “Forest garden” is a forced juxtaposition of binary concepts – “nature” and “culture” and […]