Carole Rae Watanabe loves the process of making her dreams into real living environments. Then she invites others to immerse themselves in a very tasty, life-altering experience known as Live Art, or the process of living life as an artform.

    Her current expression of Live Art happens all summer in Collioure, France, the Mediterranean village where Fauvism was born and where Carole hosts an artist in residence program and runs her own gallery, L'Art Vivant. she has also opened her incredible 8 bedroom workshop house to other leaders to host their own adventures in the French village of Soreze.

    Watanabe is a painter and business woman whose motto and life practice is to dissolve parameters and trade the voice of fear for the voice of passion. As one guest said about last summer's vacation in France, "Before painting and writing with you, I saw life as a black-and-white diagram, filled with judgments about survival and time management. My Daytimer©, not my soul, was my guide. My time in your home was a trip to a new level of consciousness. Nothing looks the same now. This creative nourishment is something I am learning to give myself daily. Your creative gifts transformed my reality."