Owl Girl Art is a Liminal space in between worlds where creativity and conversation with soul takes place. It is a place and not a place. It is symbolic of our ever illusive but absolutely essential desire to create. Owl Girl Art is a precarious label that speaks of this “place” in me. I know, you might be thinking, “what the hell is she talking about?” I often think that myself, but here is MY truth. I am a medial artist and transformative teacher who believes the very act of creating changes the world in often inconceivable, unquantifiable ways. When we let our minds quiet and our hands create from the place of uninhibited imagination, our Soul can step into consciousness in new and often profound ways which not only connects us to our inner knowing, but to the vast collective of which we are an essential part. Creativity is medicine for our wounded world.

Dena Watson-Krasts (that’s me!) worked as a top floral events designer for over 25 years but decided to out of the events world and into academia a decade ago. She completed her graduate degree in Depth Psychology in 2016 and has been teaching at Mendocino College for many years (since 2006 in Dance, and since 2016 in Communications/Psychology). She published her first peer reviewed article called Re-membering Beauty: Rape Culture, Femicide, and the Shadow, which is about the transformational power of art-making in 2021 and helped bring a Veterans Art Project event to Mendocino County in June of 2023. 

Dena carries a Masters of Arts in Depth Psychology and Bachelors of Arts in both Studio Art and Art History/Visual Culture. She is a certified practitioner of the Neuro-Affective Relational Model(NARM) and has completed her Master’s level training. NARM is a therapeutic model for working with clients who have complex trauma or C-PTSD. She is on the board of The Black Bird Trauma Training Co. and is dedicated to creating more awareness and transparency about complex trauma, especially in the classroom. Her passion is teaching and she is very excited to be working with junior college level students, staff and faculty in her new position at Mendocino College. 

Please check out the art, events and class offerings and reach out with any questions.

Thanks for visiting!

With Love, Dena