Katie Hoffner
Biography
Katie Hoffner is the curator of the goddess banner exhibition in the town hall temple. She is the niece, steward, and storyteller of Lydia Ruyle – a visionary artist, scholar, and beloved wisdom-keeper – whose deeply researched and transformative collection of goddess banners have helped reintroduce the Divine Feminine into global consciousness.
Building on Lydia’s fearless commitment to her creative calling, Katie has carried this legacy forward with clarity, courage, and strategic leadership—bringing these works into public spaces, educational settings, and cultural conversations worldwide. As lineage holder for both her aunt and the ancient images, Katie invites new generations to engage these works not as artifacts, but as visual allies.
She inspires others to embody authenticity and self-expression, drawing on lived experience, her aunt’s artistic legacy, and a bold vision for making the sacred feminine accessible and influential in contemporary culture.
PROGRAMME
Part of the Open Temple Day starting at 10:30 and 15:00.
Gather with Katie among Lydia Ruyle’s Goddess Banners for an immersive journey into the stories and symbolism of several featured Goddesses. Through image and myth participants will be invited into a sacred encounter with the Divine Feminine, spending time in the presence of these powerful archetypal beings and sensing the wisdom they carry. Together, we will explore a more intimate experience with these banners representing Earth Goddess and the Great Mother as portals to creative inspiration and divine knowing.
Representations of the Great Mother from around the World
Katie has curated a bespoke offering of Lydia Ruyle’s Goddess Banners to create a living temple of the Divine Feminine within the Town Hall. Through storytelling and image, she will guide participants on a journey through ancestral representations of the Great Mother from around the world, exploring how the Earth Goddess of Creation births spirit into matter through creativity, beauty, and belonging. These sacred images serve as portals to ancient wisdom, inviting us to remember our connection to the living Earth and our role as co-creators in Her ongoing story of renewal, abundance, and possibility.
SoulCollage®:
Katie Hoffner – a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator – offers a gentle, immersive, and creative art workshop in which participants create a personal collage card in dialogue with the Earth Goddess of Creation. Through image, intuition, and inquiry, this contemplative process becomes a space for inner listening, meaning-making, and embodied insight.
Rooted in the theme of the Earth Goddess of Creation, participants are invited into co-creative relationship with the Great Mother, translating Her qualities of abundance, beauty, and belonging into personal symbolic expression.
Please bring cut-out images (no words) that evoke Earth Goddess energies to use in your own process or to share with the collective.