BRANDING FOR ARTISTS

with Miles Seiden

Saturdays - September 17 & 24, October 1, 2022 

Are you looking to create a logo to represent yourself and your art, but are unsure how to begin?

In this course, you’ll explore your sense of self and translate your discoveries into a unique personal identity system—a toolkit of modular verbal and visual elements you can use to communicate the essence of who you are, what you do, and why it matters to your audiences. During four sessions, we’ll touch on such topics as naming, brand strategy, messaging, and design history, then migrate to design principles and production.

By the end of the sessions, you’ll have tools and theories to help you coordinate your new logo into engaging layouts you can use to promote yourself and your art!

*Discounted Single Payment and Payment Plans Available

The Image. The Word. The Mystery.

with Lisette Murphy

Thursdays - September 22, October 6 & 20, November 3 & 17, 2022 

Liberate the stories waiting just outside the threshold of your conscious creation in this abundantly generative, process-oriented, ritual journaling & ceremonial sketchbook course.  Deepen your engagement with your unique inner system of symbols & story by practicing poetic play.  Through oracle & improvisation,  organized chaos & somatic exploration, a multi-dimensional greater-than-self portrait emerges effortlessly in words and images on the pages before us. 

Perfect for artists looking to generate & expand their unique mythic lexicon for an existing creative practice, those interested in visual storytelling & graphic memoir, or those simply seeking to get free & be amazed by their own Mystery in new, abundant forms.

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MEDITATIVE ARTS MONDAYS

with Shanita King

Mondays - September 26, October 10 & 24, November 7 & 28, 2022 

Meditative Arts is an invitation to celebrate our innate gift of creativity. Together, we will cocreate a space for artistic expression that is free from judgment and an attachment to outcome. 

 We will dive deep into a guided meditation to help ground our energy and to help free ourselves emotionally for creative expression. Our meditation will be followed by our shared creative time for art-making while listening to specially curated music. In the act of creating, we intentionally turn our attention inward to the mind-body connection, the internal journey and the organic flow of the process, letting the tactile experience of creation be at the center. We will close our creative time together with a relaxing guided meditation.

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FULL MOON INNER JOURNEY 

with Florence Cuepaliztli Ménard

Sunday October 9th, 2022

Join us for a transformative Full Moon Inner Journey to immerse yourself into the core of your being and get in touch with Mother Earth. Combining drumming, voice and prayer-songs from the Moondance tradition, Florence Cuepaliztli will use her shamanic gifts to lead you on a closed-eye vision journey into the womb of the sweat lodge - the sacred source where transformation happens.

After setting our creative intentions, we’ll cleanse ourselves, body and soul, and finally surrender ourselves fully to the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. Get your sketchbooks ready to record the images and experiences that come through during our inner journey.

SPIRIT MATTER

with Morgan Mandala

Saturdays - October 8 & 15, 2022 

Join Morgan Mandala in discovering methods to merge aspects of spirit and matter within our art. In this course we will cultivate skills to dive into your intuition, and learn to break down physical form into pigment.

Together we will study the history of spirituality in art, and practice methods to induce the intuitive, imaginative side of our creativity. 

Through technical exercises we will cultivate our observation skills to recreate physical matter through paint by studying landscape and form.

Through combining these two aspects within our artwork, we can learn to imbue representational art with the spirit that is uniquely you.

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TECHNIQUES IN PAINTING -

Learning from the Dutch Masters

Lecture

with Brigid Marlin

Friday, October 21, 2022  

Join us for an intimate talk with  world renowned painter and author Brigid Marlin. Just days after the release of her new book, "Techniques in Painting" where she shares about what she learned from examining the work of the Dutch masters. 

Gather around to witness all the wisdom she has to share!

MYTHOLOGY OF MONSTERS

Workshop

with Krisztina Lazar

Saturday, October 22, 2022 

 Mythology and Monsters is an exploration on the creatures that reside in our collective unconscious and what exactly is a “monster.” Visionary art doesn’t often contain these beings and beasts unless it is categorized in the darker visionary genre. But monsters are so much more than merely nightmarish. They often hold the poles between the terrifying and the sublime, containing both ends of the spectrum depending on how you look at them. There can be a place for the monstrous even in the most light focused practice. 

After the lecture, each participant envisions their own personal monster that they work with for the rest of the workshop. Just like the grand naturalist exploration expeditions of old, you sketch your monster not just as a whole, but document their unique attributes. As Visionary Biologists, you draw how many eyes your monster has, what their claws look like and how they use them, discover what their natural habitat is like and what their primary diet in the wild is, and take notes about their feeding, mating, sleeping habits,  just to name a few examples. This class playfully explores the intersection between beauty and terror, the awe-inspiring and the depths of cosmic horror.

Lecture

Mirror and Shadow: Medusa, Myth & Metaphor

with Carrie Ann Baade

November 11, 2022

Join Carrie Ann as we dissect the myths and associations of a sacred ancient arch-type. As we transition through the lecture we turn the mirror onto ourselves and society while focusing on how we can use art to express the repressed and hidden parts of ourselves.  

DREAMING AWAKE

Painting Seminar with Kevin Campeau

November 5, 6, 12, 19,  2022 

Discover Inner Journeying and new techniques in painting your visions during this virtual seminar with Kevin Campeau!  

As visual artists we are constantly engaging with our imagination and seeking inspiration from it. 

• Could we be bolder in identifying ways of considering it, bridging the gap toward the imagination and all that it holds with more clarity of purpose?
• Could we map the path way in?
• Could we study our intent along the way and refine it?
• Could we become better artists, storytellers and creatives by claiming our own inner territory and all that doing this entails?

Inner Journeying is a way to the wellspring which aids in administering all imaginal inspiration to us. During this course you will learn Kevin's Trifold Approach to Inner Journeying, teaching you the essentials of the practice. He will also guide you to discovering your own Alchemical Memory Palace and in journeying into the subtle levels of your painting while effectively helping you expand and hone your inner senses. In parallel to this, he will instruct you in his most used and most loved techniques for painting in acrylics.

• You will learn how to create a textural imprimatura or ground, the 'Prima Materia' of your painting, inviting unexpected elements to appear.
• You will learn how to transfer your composition and begin a monochromatic underpainting, developing values and creating volume and depth with shadows and highlights from a mid tone.
• You will further learn about colour glazing and adding layers of refinement.
• Kevin will teach his 'glasslike' Vitreous Technique, a way of creating fluid glasslike and gemlike effects which can be incorporated into your piece.

Join us this November for 'Dreaming Awake'!

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Lecture

Visionary Colour

with Laurence Caruana

December 2, 2022

Time TBA

What is visionary colour?

In this visual presentation, my aim is to transmit to you new ways of seeing colour, which I learned while working with my master Ernst Fuchs in his Apocalypse Chapel in southern Austria. Through a series of examples - many from the chapel itself - we’ll visualize how highly-saturated colours harmonize and blend in the eye, creating (what Ernst Fuchs called) ‘colour space.’ With this new way of seeing, we can begin to translate light and shadow across the colour spectrum, following either warm or cold paths, to arrive at a fully harmonized work. 

We’ll reconsider some of the fundamentals of colour theory, by reviewing how polychromy and spectral colour have developed from the time of the Impressionists to contemporary Psychedelic and Visionary Artists.

Practical tips will also be offered on how to build up brightness in a layered painting, and which pigments to use while working with spectral colour.