ViTra Academy

FALL AVAILABLE COURSES

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Paint Your Light Tree with Amanda Sage

Paint your Light Tree with Amanda Sage and the ViTra Academy! Grow your vision from a seed into a tree of wisdom and hope as a gift for yourself and the world.

$222.00 USD

Branding for Artists with Miles Seiden

Saturdays, September 17 & 24, 2022 October 1, 2022 TIME: 6 - 10pm Central European/ 12 - 4pm Eastern / 9am - 1pm Pacific/ 2am - 6am AEST (+1DAY) 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 our sessions, we’ll touch on such topics as: Naming Brand strategy Messaging Design history Design principles and production By the end of the sessions, you’ll have tools and theories to help you coordinate your: New logo, Color palette, Typography family, Imagery library and Custom graphic elements (e.g., icons, illustrations, patterns, and/or motifs) into engaging layouts you can use to promote yourself and your art.

$222.00 USD

The Image. The Word. The Mystery with Lisette Murphy

Thursdays September 22, 2022 October 6 & 20, 2022 November 3 & 17, 2022 Time 7-9 pm Eastern / 4-6pm Pacific / 1am-3am CEST/ 9am - 11pm AEST (+1day) *Please check your local time zones. 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.

$150.00 USD

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Meditative Art Mondays with Shanita King

Mondays Sept 26, 2022 Oct 10 & 24, 2022 November 7 & 28, 2022 Time 7-9 pm Eastern / 4-6pm Pacific / 1am-3am CEST/ 9am - 11am AEST (+1day) *Please check your local time zones. Meditative Arts is an invitation to celebrate our innate gift of creativity. Together, we will co-create a space for artistic expression that is free from judgment and an attachment to outcome. Shanita King 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.

$150.00 USD

Spirit Matter with Morgan Mandala

Saturdays October 8 & 15, 2022 Time: 6 - 10:00 pm Central European/ 12 - 4:00 pm Eastern Time/ 9 - 1:00 pm Pacific Time 3 - 7am AEDT (+1DAY) Join Morgan Mandala in discovering methods to merge aspects of spirit and matter within your art! In this course we will cultivate skills to dive into your intuition, and learn to break down physical form into pigment. Human beings have the extraordinary ability to exercise both analytical and visionary parts of the brain through creation. Together we will discover methods to merge aspects of spirit and matter within our art. We will study the history of spirituality within art, and practice methods to induce the intuitive, imaginative side of our creativity. We will also cultivate our observation skills to recreate physical matter through paint, studying landscape and form. By combining these two aspects within our artwork, we can learn to imbue representational art with the spirit that is uniquely you.

$188.00 USD

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Mythology and Monsters with Krisztina Lazar

October 22, 2022 6 - 9pm Central European/ 12 - 3pm Eastern / 9am - 12pm Pacific/ 3am - 6am AEDT (1DAY) (*Please check your local time zones. ) Mythology and Monsters is an exploration of 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.

$33.00 USD

Dreaming Awake with Kevin Campeau

DREAMING AWAKE Painting Seminar with Kevin Campeau Saturday, November 5 Sunday, November 6 Saturday, November 12 Saturday, November 19, 2022 Saturday, November 5, 2022 Time: 5 - 9:00 pm Central European 12 - 4:00 pm Eastern Time 9 - 1:00 pm Pacific Time 3am-7am AEDT (+1day) Sunday, November 6 / Saturday, November 12 / Saturday, November 19, 2022 Time: 6- 10:00 pm Central European 12 - 4:00 pm Eastern Time 9 - 1:00 pm Pacific Time 4am-8am AEDT (+1day) 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'!

$333.00 USD

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Figure Study Long Poses with Stefan Lucas Art

Tuesdays - October 4, 11, 18, 2022 Time: 6 - 8:30 pm Central European/ 12 - 2:30 pm Eastern Time/ 9 - 11:30 am Pacific Time/ 3am-5:30am AEDT (+1DAY) Up-leveling the quality of your figure drawings is a practical matter of learning fundamental techniques and having the time to practice using them. Each class within this series will have one classical fine art long pose with reference provided. Through live demonstration and the opportunity for you to ask questions in real time, we hope to demystify what is in between you and exquisite figurative work. We look forward to seeing you there!

$150.00 USD

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'Techniques in Painting' Lecture with Brigid Marlin

Friday October 21st, 2022 Time 6 - 8pm Central European 12 - 2pm Eastern 9 - 11am Pacific 3 - 5 am AEST (+1 Day) *Please check your local time zones. Join us for an intimate talk with world renowned painter and author Brigid Marlin. Just days after the release of her new book, gather around for all of the wisdom she is about to share.

$33.00 USD

Mirror and Shadow: Medusa, Myth & Metaphor - A Lecture with Carrie Ann Baade

Join Carrie Ann Baade on Friday November 11, 2022 as we dissect the myths and associations of a sacred ancient archetype. 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.

$33.00 USD

FULL MOON INNER JOURNEY with Florence Cuepaliztli Ménard

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. Sunday October 9th, 20227-10pm CEST/ 1-4pm EST/ 10am-1pm PST/ 5-8am AEDT (+1DAY)

$33.00 USD

VISIONARY COLOUR with Laurence Caruana

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. Friday December 2nd 1-4pm Eastern 10am-1pm Pacific 7pm-10pm CEST 4am-8am AEDT (+1day)

$33.00 USD

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INDIVIDUAL COURSE PAYMENT PLANS

FALL TERM

Paint Your Light Tree with Amanda Sage

PAY AS YOU GO! Paint your Light Tree with Amanda Sage and the ViTra Academy! Grow your vision from a seed into a tree of wisdom and hope as a gift for yourself and the world.

3 monthly payments of $85.00 USD

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Payment Plan - Branding for Artists with Miles Seiden

Saturdays, September 17 & 24, 2022 October 1, 2022 6 - 10pm Central European/ 12 - 4pm Eastern / 9am - 1pm Pacific 2am - 6am AEST (+1DAY) 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 our sessions, we’ll touch on such topics as: Naming Brand strategy Messaging Design history Design principles and production By the end of the sessions, you’ll have tools and theories to help you coordinate your: New logo, Color palette, Typography family, Imagery library and Custom graphic elements (e.g., icons, illustrations, patterns, and/or motifs) into engaging layouts you can use to promote yourself and your art.

3 monthly payments of $90.00 USD

Payment Plan - Spirit Matter with Morgan Mandala

3 monthly payments of $75.00 USD

Payment Plan - Dreaming Awake with Kevin Campeau

3 monthly payments of $125.00 USD

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Payment Plan - Meditative Art Mondays with Shanita King

Mondays Sept 26, 2022 Oct 10 & 24, 2022 November 7 & 28, 2022 Time 7-9 pm Eastern / 4-6pm Pacific / 1am-3am CEST/ 10am - 12pm AEST (+1day)/ *Please check your local time zones. Meditative Arts is an invitation to celebrate our innate gift of creativity. Together, we will co-create a space for artistic expression that is free from judgment and an attachment to outcome. Shanita King 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.

3 monthly payments of $65.00 USD

Payment Plan - The Image. The Word. The Mystery with Lisette Murphy

Thursdays September 22, 2022 October 6 & 20, 2022 November 3 & 17, 2022 Time 7-9 pm Eastern / 4-6pm Pacific / 1am-3am CEST 10am - 12pm AEST (+1day) *Please check your local time zones. 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.

3 monthly payments of $65.00 USD

Payment Plan - Figure Study Long Poses with Stefan Lucas Art

Tuesdays - October 4, 11, 18, 2022 Time: 6 - 8:30 pm Central European/ 12 - 2:30 pm Eastern Time/ 9 - 11:30 am Pacific Time 3am-5:30am AEDT (+1DAY) Up-leveling the quality of your figure drawings is a practical matter of learning fundamental techniques and having the time to practice using them. Each class within this series will have one classical fine art long pose with reference provided. Through live demonstration and the opportunity for you to ask questions in real time, we hope to demystify what is in between you and exquisite figurative work. We look forward to seeing you there!

3 monthly payments of $65.00 USD

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