IG @alimasalmon 🦋🕷🐊🍠🌶♠️🌓🪶♥️💋🐈‍⬛🖤 artist, animist, anthropologist* grandma of 5, gardener, visionary… designing my next incarnation… @alimasalmon is IG Note: 2nd phone & PTR & I’m using both as seems can’t combine… ♥️ & I am a 13th House member, despite CH refusals ! & I accidentally erased the 2nd unused IG from this phone - find me @alimasalmon Student of: 🎶 Raga (Pandit Pran Nath, Sri Karunamayee-Didi, Terry Riley, U Salamat Ali Khan & his son U Sukhawat Ali Khan — yes, mama sang jazz & played tenor sax 🎷— my childhood at SF Conservatory of Music - piano & clarinet & choir — I still sing Kirtan & Gospel 🎨 Thangka (Andy Weber), Mandala (Pieter Weltevrede), & more Hindu art w Ekabhumi— SF Art Institute during the 1960s California new figurative with mentor Jay de Feo & teachers Gordon Cook, Joan Brown, Don Weygandt et al 🤲🏼 Sufism (Sefu Abu Khan of Kuntair, The Gambia, M Wali Ali Meyer, S Vasheest Davenport (zikr), Pir Shabda Kahn, Shemsuddin Ahmed, Imam Bilal Hyde, & others 🌹 Buddhism (refuge HE Kalu Rinpoche (previous) & Chenrezig empowerment (current incarnation); other empowerments: Medicine Buddha (HH the Dalai Lama) & White Tara (Lama Palden), etc 🌱🍃🐴🦄 studied herbs (Catherine Abby Rich) & medicine making — mostly treated horses - midwife to the mares, Lipizzans, for 20+ years with my twin Laura Weiner (Smolka) Multi-cultural ancestral background & going forward, also with grandkids I’ve done many jobs in many careers, among them, not in any particular order: teaching art & ESL; assist librarian, systems analyst, futurist; landscape & interior design, color consulting, city planning (Brisbane CA); florist & event production: weddings, memorials, exhibits, concerts; admin & facilities management (Gerson Bakar & Assc), advertising & marketing; research/constituent communications Senator McGovern (D.C.-Carter Admin); short-order cook, candy maker, saving a mountain & its wetlands… *fieldwork & life in Senegambia 1974, 1984-5 — work with late husband’s & colleague of 40 years, David P Gamble, is mostly archived at UCLA Special Collections & Ethnomusicology Dept for other scholars, now & future Actually joined June 1, 2021 & nominated by Ekabhumi Ellik of Sacred Art Society & Dharma Center on my other phone IG is @alimasalmon - not the FB issued dummy below