Birgit Langhammer is a writer, artist and teacher who brings spirituality into all of her artistic endeavors. At the bottom of her artistic work is a deep yearning and the search for traces of the intangible world of spirit and the divine within and without.
Birgit wrote her first story called When the Gods Played Marbles. Her work was being recognized at the Transformational Author Experience contest (conducted by Christine Kloser) in 2011. Birgit has been featured in Published! Magazine and interviewed on blogtalkradio.com/writenow. She is currently writing on her first book about art.
As an artist she loves to work with black-and-white photography. Part of her artwork has been featured in several group shows in Houston, Texas, as well as in Arequipa, Peru. Birgit has had her first solo-show in 2010 in Houston, Texas. The titles of her portfolios: Reflective Presence, Goddesses or Earth Portraits signal her deep connection with nature and all of creation.
Birgit enjoys to experiment not just in the darkroom, but with different media. She creates paintings, mixed media, sculptures, collages, and felted objects. In 2006 she received a grant to travel to Ravenna and Venice, Italy, to participate in a master-mosaic class. One of her felted sculptures had been selected for the Craft Texas show of the Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston in 2008. In 2013 she participated in the Print Houston event and displayed her photo-gravures at the Rudolph Blume/ArtScan Gallery in Houston.
Birgit Langhammer has been teaching visual arts within an educational setting for many years in Germany and the U.S.A. She received her degree in German language/literature and visual arts in 1993 from the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena, Germany and taught for several years German and visual arts at a high school in Weimar, Germany before moving to the U.S.A. in 2000.
After being raised in former East-Germany without any concept of spirituality it has been one of the most incredible experiences in Birgit’s life to find to her own recognition of the divine source. Because of that transformation Birgit’s mission is to help others connect deeper with the divine through her writing and art. To Birgit art and spirituality are genuinely connected and she feels compelled to express that connection within her own work.
