Hope has always been involved in healing & creative arts, from visual arts & music, to sustainability education & community health.
Music: The hand drummer for world roots rock band, Medicine for the People (Nahko.com) since 2007, Hope has been playing percussion for over twenty years. Her first teacher was Babatunde Olatunje, and she has studied with master drummers in West Africa, Peru and Brazil. She is honoured to use indigenous instruments on a modern stage. Hope has also facilitated drum circles and taught rhythm classes to over 2,500 participants. She also has her own solo music projects; her most recent is her third album, ‘Bring to Light’
Music: The hand drummer for world roots rock band, Medicine for the People (Nahko.com) since 2007, Hope has been playing percussion for over twenty years. Her first teacher was Babatunde Olatunje, and she has studied with master drummers in West Africa, Peru and Brazil. She is honoured to use indigenous instruments on a modern stage. Hope has also facilitated drum circles and taught rhythm classes to over 2,500 participants. She also has her own solo music projects; her most recent is her third album, ‘Bring to Light’
Art: Hope has been painting since childhood. She often combines rich colour and lines, poetry, and textures of natural earth elements to tell the story of her journeys, and create worlds seen through her dreams, travels, and visions. Hope has been painting since childhood.
Environmental & Social Projects : Hope was a founding board member of Tryon Life Community Farm, an environmental education centre in Portland, Oregon. She co-created and taught their education program, which includes a fusion of permaculture, natural building, sustainable energy and social justice. Hope is a board member of Honour the Earth, an indigenous environmental justice project, working alongside the Indigo Girls and Winona LaDuke.
Women’s Health & Birth: Hope has trained and worked as midwife and doula, a graduate of the National College of Midwifery, and has attended over 400 births in the U.S., Indonesia, and Africa, where Hope worked at a village birth centre with the African Birth Collective. This inspired her to work harder to educate and raise awareness for women as to their options for their health, thus Hope began Artemis Healing Arts (artemishealingarts.com) education program and has taught natural birth classes in Peru, Brazil, Bali and at FIndhorn, in Scotland as well as in the US. – Article & Image: hopemedford.com
Environmental & Social Projects : Hope was a founding board member of Tryon Life Community Farm, an environmental education centre in Portland, Oregon. She co-created and taught their education program, which includes a fusion of permaculture, natural building, sustainable energy and social justice. Hope is a board member of Honour the Earth, an indigenous environmental justice project, working alongside the Indigo Girls and Winona LaDuke.
Women’s Health & Birth: Hope has trained and worked as midwife and doula, a graduate of the National College of Midwifery, and has attended over 400 births in the U.S., Indonesia, and Africa, where Hope worked at a village birth centre with the African Birth Collective. This inspired her to work harder to educate and raise awareness for women as to their options for their health, thus Hope began Artemis Healing Arts (artemishealingarts.com) education program and has taught natural birth classes in Peru, Brazil, Bali and at FIndhorn, in Scotland as well as in the US. – Article & Image: hopemedford.com