The Artist ReBirth Cycle
The Artist ReBirth Cycle is an intensive 9 month course designed to nurture the birth and rebirth of artistic self-identity. Whether you are newly identifying as an artist or are interested in identifying new parts of your practice, this course is for you.
Each participant will produce a new body of work while engaging in an intimate and playful co-working community. We will focus on the internal realm of the feminine, along with other historically undermined parts-of-self that leave us creatively blocked, obscured, or inauthentic. Challenging traditional hierarchies of skill, sophistication, and historical or market relevance, we will engage in new modes of creative gestation that bring us closer to our true nature. Approaching art as a nurturing mother, we will practice radical acceptance as much as critique; patience as much as discipline.
The Artist ReBirth Cycle weaves studio practice with concepts of psychology, philosophy, art history, Dharma Buddhism, biology, and spirituality. We will discuss the ideas of C.G. Jung, bell hooks, Marion Woodman, Alva Noë, Rebecca Solnit, Donald W. Winnicott, Maggie Nelson, and Elizabeth Grosz, among more. Most importantly, we will exchange notes from our own processes and engagements. This course is first and foremost about you.
The Artist ReBirth Cycle will meet once per week on Zoom, for 9 months, the average length of human gestation. During this time, participants must wholeheartedly commit to their own artistic growth as well as that of each other’s. The length of this course is intended to deeply integrate creative habits, flow, and meaningful solidarity among participants.
Mondays, 2/26-11/11, 7-9pm EST on Zoom
36 Sessions + 3 private mentoring calls and a final show
Cost: $2600 (paid monthly) or $2500 (paid in full)
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Click the ‘contact’ page and schedule a Zoom meeting to learn more about the program, or email sarah@tothepack.com.
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”Love is the essence of feminine consciousness— in men and women. It is the recognition and acceptance of the total individual, and loving the individual for who he or she is. The feminine is the loving container of all conflict, all physical and psychological processes. They must not be rejected, but safely, lovingly contained. Suffering and conflict are the only way to grow. As life moves from phase to phase, you have to suffer the death of one and birth of the next.”
“I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering— but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are.”