Save the Date: Artmonk Retreat Colorado March/April
Hello friends! As you may know, the core team of the Art Monastery is gathering in a beautiful home in Lyons, Colorado (just north of Boulder) for an Artmonk Practice Period: 21 days of silent meditation and creative exploration. We are swimming in gratitude for this opportunity to dive deeply into an earnest exploration, refreshing the foundations […]
Il Ritorno
Hello! I’m back! After two years away from the Art Monastery (including six glorious months as a Farm Apprentice at Green Dragon Zen Temple north of San Francisco), I am just psyched to announce that I am re-entering into the Project. Just days after I completed my apprenticeship at Green Dragon Temple (aka Green Gulch […]
Erasmus+ awards the Art Monastery $54,000!
The Art Monastery has won our biggest grant ever! Erasmus+ (a European granting organization dedicated to furthering learning and development) generously awarded $240,000 to our European strategic partnership, of which Art Monastery Italia will receive $54,000. The project, called “Hosting Social Innovation,” will provide tools to empower people to more actively improve their social and ecological environments. […]
Hosting Transformation: the book
On July 1, 2013, at one of the world’s most ecologically responsible printing presses, the International Partnership for Transformative Learning published a book. I had the honor of editing this book, along with my partner in project management Joos van den Dool. Together, we did all the layouts and edits, as well as writing our […]
ChangeMaker Festival
The Art Monastery is honored to co-organize the ChangeMaker Festival along with the other seven european organizations that comprise the International Partnership for Transformative Learning. It’s not too late! Join us at the festival! ChangeMaker Festival July 6 – 11, 2014 Zagreb, Croatia The ChangeMaker Festival is a place for today’s leaders in revolutionary, life-long learning to […]
Benefit for Kijiji
The Artmonks offered American spirituals and Charles Darius’s original chantronica for a dinner fundraiser event in Cursi, Italy, to benefit the formation of an art village town in Kenya. Pictures coming soon!
Arrivederci Labro
Dear Labro, What a wonderful three years it has been. We will miss you unflinching beauty in every type of weather. We will miss your mystical silence and whispering stones. We will miss the sense that you are one pretty big movie set, with a consistent cast of characters and occasional guest appearances by newcomers. We hope to […]
Days 3 & 4: Drawing = Meditation
For me, drawing from life is about slowing down to experience the thing in front of you. Drawing is about forgetting what you think the subject looks like. Drawing is paying attention, tuning in at such a deeply quiet and still level that you become one with your subject. Drawing is meditation. Going directly from […]
Spring Newsletter: Free music downloads, Artmonks on the Move!
Free music downloads, Artmonks go nomadic, Artmonk Retreat in CA Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Happy #5 AMP! In celebration of our 5th birthday, we’re offering you three free downloads of live performances […]
