New Beginnings
Two years ago, the Art Monastery Project officially began a multi-year cycle of contemplative and creative explorations based around the different daily rituals of western monasticism, each performed at a different time of day, and each with different symbology and thematic content. In 2012, it was Vigils, the midnight hour. Emptiness, stillness, death. This was my first […]
Summer Newsletter: Artmonks Move to America
We have much to report in this newsletter. A new book, moving our headquarters to the US, taking an organizational breather, saying farewell to a dear team member who is off to pursue her dreams… so much change. The book is published! Executive Director Betsy McCall, one of the book’s editors and designers, writes: “On July 1, 2013, at one […]
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 […]
How do you leave a monastery?
Dear Art Monastery friends, supporters, and Artmonks everywhere, As of July 2013, I am stepping down from my position as Artistic Director of the Art Monastery Project. I am so grateful for my three wonderful years with the AMP. Being an Artmonk has allowed me the opportunity to live an amazing life filled with art, […]
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 […]
