Valerianna Claff, MFA is a professional artist, educator, sacred singer, storyteller, healer, ritualist, and steward of RavenWood Forest, Studio of Mythic & Environmental Arts. She holds a masters degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited her work widely since 1993. With over 20 years teaching experience, Valerianna combines her lifelong exploration of creativity, spirituality, music and healing to invite authentic self-expression and deep transformation. Her rigorous artistic inquiry and practice, combined with her studies and exploration of shamanic and vibrational healing techniques, earth-based spirituality, mythology, and women’s wisdom traditions gives Valerianna a wellspring of tools and techniques to nurture and inspire. Valerianna teaches studio art at Clark University and RavenWood Forest and has extensive experience performing musically and facilitating ritual. She invites intimate relationship with the natural world through creative and ritual arts, and holds space for deep healing, dreaming and re-weaving of Sacred relationships at RavenWood.