education
Woven Between Worlds creates educational experiences that use storytelling, movement, art, cultural inquiry, and embodied practice to explore identity, creativity, belonging, and cultural memory.
Our workshops and lectures are designed for universities, schools, arts organizations, museums, nonprofits, and community spaces. Each program can be adapted to the needs, age group, and context of the participants.
Arts Workshops
Our arts workshops invite participants to explore identity, memory, creativity, and connection through interdisciplinary practice.
Workshops may combine movement, drawing, writing, reflection, storytelling, and discussion to create space for participants to engage with their own experiences in new ways.
• Universities and colleges
• Museums and cultural institutions
• Dance companies and arts organizations
• K–12 schools and youth programs
• Community organizations and nonprofits
• Conferences and retreats
• Artist residencies and creative cohorts
Workshops can be adapted for children, teens, university students, professional artists, educators, and community members.
About
Johanna Kepler
Founder & Director
All Woven Between Worlds workshops and educational programs are led by founder Johanna Kepler, an interdisciplinary artist, educator, choreographer, and researcher with experience teaching and facilitating across universities, arts organizations, studios, and community settings. Johanna holds an MFA from Duke University and a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan, and has taught as an Instructor of Record at Duke, led workshops through American Dance Festival and Duke Arts, and facilitated arts and movement programs in the United States and Guatemala. Her approach blends movement, storytelling, visual art, reflection, and embodied research to create thoughtful, accessible spaces for participants to explore identity, creativity, culture, and belonging.
Workshop Offerings
Weaving: Creativity, Identity & Storytelling
The signature interdisciplinary workshop exploring memory, identity, and belonging through movement, visual art, writing, and storytelling. Participants are guided through creative prompts and embodied practices that invite them to reconnect with their lived experiences and discover new ways of understanding themselves and their communities.
Ideal for: Universities, museums, cultural organizations, community groups, and conferences.
Weaving for Creative Practice
An immersive workshop for artists, educators, and creative professionals interested in interdisciplinary process and devising. Participants explore the Weaving Methodology as a framework for generating movement, creating original work, and engaging in collaborative and community-centered art making.
Topics include: creative process, improvisation, choreographic tools, interdisciplinary collaboration, and embodied research.
Ideal for: Artists, educators, university students, and creative cohorts.
Weaving for Children & Youth
A playful and imaginative workshop that introduces young people to storytelling through movement, drawing, and creative exploration. Participants create meaningful images, bring them to life through movement, and reflect together through writing and discussion.
The workshop encourages creativity, confidence, empathy, and self-expression while helping young people connect with their own stories and the stories of others.
Ideal for: Schools, youth programs, museums, camps, and community organizations.
Talks, Lectures & Artist Residencies
Director & Founder Johanna Kepler offers, lecture demonstrations, and multi-day residencies that share my interdisciplinary practice, ethnographic research in Guatemala, and the development of the Weaving Methodology.
Topics include:
• Weaving as a Creative Practice
• Maya Textile Weaving & Cultural Memory
• Art, Identity & Living Between Worlds
• Community Storytelling & Oral Histories
• Interdisciplinary Art Making & Research
• Creativity, Belonging & Cultural Memory
Residencies can be tailored to include workshops, performances, lectures, community engagement activities, and collaborative art-making experiences.