AUBURN – Greenwood artist and teacher Arla Patch will present a slide lecture about her work, as well as showing her new DVD, “A Body Story,” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, in Room 201 of Jalbert Hall at Central Maine Community College.

The presentation is free and open to the public.

Patch has been teaching for more than 30 years. Bryant Pond in Greenwood has been her home base for the past 19.

In the 1980s, she developed a visual arts program for SAD 44 in Bethel. When the program was lost due to budget cuts, she kept it going as Explorations: Classes in Creative Development. Fourteen years later, it has expanded to include adults, portfolio preparation, a summer program and healing work she calls “Second Skin, the Transformative and Healing Power of Body Casting Sculpture.”

In the casting, Patch has worked with people with a range of life experiences, including women who’ve survived breast cancer, formerly incarcerated women and individuals who have experienced loss and trauma of many kinds.

Patch also has taught in public schools, has been an artist-in-residence, and taught at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, N.Y. She has worked with classes ranging from Head Start to Elderhostel, and ages in between.

Locally, her spring session of classes will begin April 4, and registration is now open. Applications are available at 100 Acre Wood Art Store in Norway or by calling 665-2224.