Community Engagement

Tabling at community events

owen is wearing a pink hoodie over a black and white t-shirt, shuffling cards at a table covered with a blue-gray cloth. To one side is a smaller round table covered with a pink cloth, displaying Owen's art

I am honored to be frequently invited to table at community spaces and events geared toward healing justice and the arts. Beginning in January of 2024 I have been offering Tarot readings and sharing my art with the community via Mudluk Pottery Studio’s monthly First Friday events. Some other examples of this type of engagement include:

Family Tree Clinic’s Halloween event for LGBTQ+ youth on October 22, 2024
Northstar Roller Derby Pride Bout on July 20, 2024
Telling Queer History’s ICONIC Drag Brunch on June 1, 2024
Artblok Spring Open Studios event on April 1, 2023
Gaia Democratic School’s annual Love Brunch fundraiser in February 2023 and again in February 2024
various community healing justice events led by local bodyworkers
various private events such as birthday parties, engagement celebrations, and wedding showers

Teaching & Facilitation

Over the past few years, I have offered several workshops and classes on Tarot, spiritual listening, and setting and holding spiritual and energetic boundaries. Topics I have facilitated include:

Radical Imagination - unique virtual art experiences I offered on 8 different occasions between November 2023 - July 2024, with an average of 5 participants per session
Tarot practice, history, and divination - I offered 14 virtual and in-person Tarot practice sessions between May 2023 - July 2024, with an average of about 5 participants per session
Plants as Teachers: Ancestry, Colonization, & Repair - I taught 3 workshops in partnership with Maria Wesserle of Four Season Foraging (in-person on 6/22/24, 10/14/23, and 8/16/23, averaging about 12 participants per workshop)
Plants and Perseverance: plants as friends and medicine during difficult times - I taught this workshop in partnership with Four Season Foraging and Reishi, a local herbalist and friend (in-person 6/15/24, ~15 participants)
Elemental Tarot Basics, a 6-week course I developed and taught from mid-September - November 5, 2023 (5 students completed the course)
Boundaries in Care Work workshop for Threshold Healing massage therapists (10/28/23, ~8 participants)

Email Updates, Tarotscopes, & Social Media

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I manage an email list of 640 members, and I send a monthly e-newsletter I call Nonna Terra Tarot New Moon Updates. This is the primary way I communicate with my audience about where they can find me and engage with me and my work, both Tarot-related and my broader artistic work. I am proud of my open rates, which often exceed 80%.

I also post a monthly Tarotscope to the Nonna Terra website - a creative essay based on the Tarot cards associated with each astrological season. I announce each new Tarotscope in the New Moon Updates newsletter as well as on my Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky (@nonnaterra.bsky.social) social media accounts. I currently have 127 followers on Bluesky, 969 followers on Instagram, and 689 friends on Facebook.