Our Work

The Art Monastery is a social sculpture that produces multi-disciplinary work by a wide network of artists in Europe and the USA. Specifically interested in process as much as product, the Art Monastery takes care to provide opportunities to emerging artists who are interested in the intersection of creativity, contemplation, and community. You'll find in our portfolio a wide sampling of public performances, interventions, and installations by the Artmonks since the project's inception in 2008.

Joel Frederiksen

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Lab 2012: Vigils

In summer 2012, a group Artmonks gathered in Italy for the first 90-day Art Monastic Laboratory program. This experiment valued the artistic process, the caring for the artist as a whole person, and the intentionality of this temporary monastic community as much as the original theater piece that was created during this intensive development period. By engaging in social sculpture in this way, the Artmonks investigated new ways of making art and the individual and collective experience of being an artist in the modern world.