tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9294360728066634032024-02-21T06:49:35.698-08:00Arts & ConsciousnessNews and Insights from the Arts & Consciousness Program at JFK UniversityKaren Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-33928306668206839422012-09-14T14:27:00.000-07:002012-09-14T14:27:10.040-07:002012 Fall Class Registration Information<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Too much of
multi-media art becomes an isolated experience of watching a screen — an
experience as unsatisfying as watching TV. In this class students will engage
in a relational approach to video art as a way of connecting to and
experiencing our own humanity. What surprises and delights may be ours when we
find media art bringing us together, rather than isolating us from one another?
For beginning and Intermediate levels. Amy is an artist, teacher and
changeworker whose sole aim in life is to talk with you.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Teaching Faces of the Soul – Kaleo Ching and Elise Morris</span></b></div>
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class you will learn how to teach and market maskmaking workshops using unique,
specialized art techniques. You will learn guided imagery skills incorporating
hypnotherapy principles and practices to access inner wisdom and facilitate the
transformative process. Techniques for creating sacred space, inspiring
creative freedom, and facilitating self-exploration in the classroom will be
included. Kaleo and Elise are the authors of </span><i style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background: white;">Faces of Your Soul: Rituals in Art,
Maskmaking, and Guided Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem
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<b style="font-size: 9pt;">and 11/18 ● JFKU Alumni: $249 / Non-Alumni: $594 /
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will experiment with an open-ended approach to making books and expand their
ideas of what constitutes a book. Possible topics to include: found text,
altered books, books that do not resemble books, books presented as sculptures,
book/collages, books made out of materials other than paper, and the
non-readable book as sculptural object. To become familiar with a variety of
approaches to the book form through both making and looking at the work of contemporary
artists who use the book in their work. For more information about Lisa visit
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<span style="font-size: 9pt;">Poetic language that
comes from the heart, has the potential to circulate everywhere. Whether it
occurs one-to-one or in a group, poetry provides a way to explore numbness or
feeling in a sensitive and creative response to life as it unfolds. In this
class you will learn and apply principles of poetry and healing by writing and
sharing original poems. No previous experience with poetry is required. John
Fox is a poet and certified poetry therapist. He is author of </span><i style="font-size: 9pt;">Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem</i><span style="font-size: 9pt;">-making
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Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making. </i><span style="font-size: 9pt;">For more
information about John visit</span><i style="font-size: 9pt;"> </i><span style="font-size: 9pt;">www.poeticmedicine.com.</span></div>
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Alumni and Non–Alumni, which include JFKU students and the general public, are
welcome to audit specific classes each quarter. They must fill out an <i>Auditors </i><i>Application</i> to enroll in classes. Auditors will not receive academic credit for
their classes and the class will not show up on their transcripts. Non-Degree
students are individuals who are interested in taking courses for academic
credit but are not currently pursuing a degree at JFKU. Students must fill out
an application with Admissions and be accepted into the program by the Arts
& Consciousness Program Chair. Contact us at 510-647-2044 for Registration
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<br />Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-71741107486632715692012-06-30T16:40:00.000-07:002012-06-30T17:10:32.177-07:00Topophilia, imaginal topographies of place, Jennifer Jastrab, MFA Exhibition<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Imaginal topographies of mystical lands, cosmic skies, and winter fields welcome viewers into environments and places momentarily familiar, then strange. With common tools such as pencils, pigments, erasers and scouring pads, the artist creates richly textured and multi-layered drawings and mixed medium works on paper and panels. Through a patient process of applying and removing graphite or pigment in successive layers, ephemeral dialogues between hand and mind, memory and dream, and thought and feeling, are revealed. The confluence of incidental scratches, smears, erasures and textures form layers of psychic geographies into stratified repositories of poetic intuitions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the work is informed by the contemplation of natural phenomena, it is unconcerned with realistic depictions. The focus is upon utilizing the art making process to interpret, capture and convey the inner topographies of the human spirit interacting with evanescent places,</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="_GoBack"></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> both seen and unseen. The fleeting moment is mapped and archived. This is not a literal type of geographical mapping, but instead akin to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mappae mundi</i>, the diagrams of the Middle Ages, which used early forms of cartography to map history, mythology, imagination, and dreams. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The works displayed range in size, from a large scroll to drawings mounted in small specimen dishes. Viewers experience places that are concurrently vast and intimate. Also on display is a collaborative installation with musician, Winston Berger, and dancer and poet, Catherine Baumgartner. The trio explores connection to place, in this instance an East Bay marina, through their respective mediums - drawing, sound and movement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0John F.Kennedy University, 2956 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, CA 94702, USA37.8529921 -122.287423637.8404546 -122.3071646 37.8655296 -122.2676826tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-52341746203649340652012-06-30T16:05:00.002-07:002012-06-30T16:20:28.038-07:002012 Summer Class Registration Opens July 2<div class="01Header" style="margin: 0in 0in 2pt;">
<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Artist in the Environment – Judi Pettite</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">This studio course will focus on the deep and rich practice of art making in and about our environment. We will contextualize our work by looking at the various categories of earth-based art from the Land Art of the 1960’s and 70’s to local indigo production and urban farms. Through field trips and studio work we will engage directly and personally with the inspiration that comes from our relationship to the earth. There will be one weekend field trip where the students learn about mapping and another where they will learn to make Japanese Indigo Dye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Registration:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last Day to Register, Wed, July 11<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>●<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Class: A&C 5670.2, 3 Units<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>●<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dates: <br />(6 weekday classes, 2 weekend classes)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>●<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mon, 7/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">16, </span>7/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">23</span>, 7/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">30, </span>8/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">13,</span> 8/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">20,</span> 9/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">10,</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">4:30</span>pm <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">- 7:30pm,</span> Sun, 8/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">5, 11am - 4pm</span>, Sun 8/<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">26, 11am - 3:30pm</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>●<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fees: JFKU Alumni $240 / Non Alumni $570 / <br />Non Degree: contact us for information</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Registration: Last Day to Register, Wed, August 8 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>●<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Class: A&C 5670.1, 2 Units ●<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dates: <br />(5 weekday classes, 1 weekend class) Sat, 8/11, 10am - 3:00pm, Tues, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11, 4:30pm - 7:30pm <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>●<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fees: JFKU Alumni: $160 / Non Alumni: $380 / Non Degree: contact us for information</strong></span><br />
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</div>Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-45586942202474435062012-04-02T14:16:00.000-07:002012-04-02T14:16:24.622-07:00Spring Program NewsWe have entered the cycle of Spring and this may be a wonderful time to ask yourself, <i>What in my life is arising, growing, and moving toward expression?</i> On a program level the energy of new beginnings and expansion is reflected in our welcome of Masters in Transformative Arts spring students Kathy Gaschk and Jena Shellito and faculty Alisa Golden who will be teaching the course Writing and the Creative Process.<br />
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Spring Exhibition schedule:<br />
MFA Debby Miller, March 24-April 20 with an artist talk April 15, 4-5pm<br />
MFA T.C .Moore, April 28-May 18 with an artist talk May 12, 4-5pm<br />
2012 Graduate exhibition, May 29-June 16, reception 7-8pm and ceremony 8pm<br />
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Program News: We recently received a grant from <a href="http://www.thesah.org/template/index.cfm">The Society for the Arts in Healthcare</a> for consulting hours focused on accessing the viability of an Arts in Healthcare certificate in addition to the degree program. <br />
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Summer session: There will be a four week break between the end of the Spring quarter and the beginning of the summer quarter. The summer session is nine weeks long and runs from July 16-September 15, 2012. <br />
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Summer class preview (partial list): <br />
A&C 5670 Group Studio practice: Art and the Environment, 3 units, Judi Pettite, Mondays 4:30 <br />
A&C 5670 Group Studio practice: Process Painting, 2 units, Margaret Lindsey, Tuesdays, 4:30 <br />
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A&C5200 Transformative Arts Education: Faces of the Soul: Mask Making, 3 units, Kaleo Ching (this will be a prerequisite to the Teaching Mask Making course in fall), July 21/22 & 28/29<br />
A&C5255 Transformative Arts Seminar, 3 units, Date: TBD, faculty: TBD<br />
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Summer opportunities:<br />
If you are interested in working within the healthcare field as an artist and educator you may wish to explore this resource: <a href="http://www.arts.ufl.edu/cam/">The Arts in Healthcare Summer Intensive</a> at the University of Florid.Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-85007780115602242052012-03-14T18:01:00.000-07:002012-03-14T18:01:53.456-07:00Faculty Recommendations for current Bay Area Exhibitions<i>Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought</i> is an exciting opportunity to explore the subject of the tree in Jewish tradition through the lens of contemporary artists who enable us to see the world in new ways and to encourage us to find fresh meaning in tradition. Ending date: May 28, 2012<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUBo4l2yP1EhGHHCCz4LigJXjqxkwJy2fMo3GcmdYkQGADAK-sYy66It9Y9FK4R7B4kBjh4-JRPjn_IxZ21D9ACrgv5ElSDIH_3GphTbtPV-noBd2h0Ny0VqJEuCAjmHgO4Rd50xkSI4/s1600/Do+Not+Destroy.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDUBo4l2yP1EhGHHCCz4LigJXjqxkwJy2fMo3GcmdYkQGADAK-sYy66It9Y9FK4R7B4kBjh4-JRPjn_IxZ21D9ACrgv5ElSDIH_3GphTbtPV-noBd2h0Ny0VqJEuCAjmHgO4Rd50xkSI4/s1600/Do+Not+Destroy.gif" /></a></div><i>Mark Bradford </i>Crafting abstract paintings from fragments of the urban environment — permanent-wave end papers, billboard paper, posters, newsprint — Mark Bradford has built a body of work that is richly layered in both material and meaning. Bringing together abstraction with social awareness the paintings subtly map the patterns of class, race, gender, and sexuality that structure American life, especially life in Bradford's own South Central Los Angeles neighborhood. Ending Date: June 17, 2012<br />
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On-line registration begins March 3<br />
Spring quarter begins April 4<br />
Spring quarter ends, Commencement, June 16<br />
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There is a university wide major change in the summer schedule this year. There will be an Intersession period of four weeks when courses are not being held. This would be a wonderful time to plan vacations and take a break before the summer academic quarter begins. The summer session will last 9 weeks instead of being 11 weeks long. <br />
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Intersession June 18-July 14<br />
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<b>Summer schedule</b> <br />
Instruction begins July 16<br />
Labor Day University Holiday — University is closed September 3rd<br />
Instruction ends September 15Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-42939201247886404672012-02-18T22:21:00.001-08:002012-02-22T18:04:28.715-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOnxRUOdzy64d2qJnQCfpbxBKhPoaxO5zYNuGQ68CGjXxE-xCz56hyi-AAzqS8HcY8oJetMNO1Zpqq44g2B9zFveWsjsA_yVDae4Ou6FWfEUQZsmu6o5-uoDv9LPyoU4xmFCgMDOqpef0/s1600/2012-02-09+19.47.57.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOnxRUOdzy64d2qJnQCfpbxBKhPoaxO5zYNuGQ68CGjXxE-xCz56hyi-AAzqS8HcY8oJetMNO1Zpqq44g2B9zFveWsjsA_yVDae4Ou6FWfEUQZsmu6o5-uoDv9LPyoU4xmFCgMDOqpef0/s200/2012-02-09+19.47.57.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cb9K9St6YNpZFl9jtwUIW6q-TUJ1RwrgwrFAY3XtSpPj5ikub-gBndbHhsKR-gBOTVVTBEb3Yr2ofqdoM-41CAnL_Cr1W7OrXClNMMJ9GrjvV1YuGgblsAPGEHCyEN-HkuU4DdHbM3U/s1600/BLUE+4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-cb9K9St6YNpZFl9jtwUIW6q-TUJ1RwrgwrFAY3XtSpPj5ikub-gBndbHhsKR-gBOTVVTBEb3Yr2ofqdoM-41CAnL_Cr1W7OrXClNMMJ9GrjvV1YuGgblsAPGEHCyEN-HkuU4DdHbM3U/s200/BLUE+4.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
I recently was asked to jury an exhibition for the <a href="http://sebarts.org/">Sebastopol Center for the Arts</a> around the theme of "Blue" and found the process deeply engaging. Two books helped me to prepare: <i>Color, a Natural History of</i> <i>the Palette</i> by Victoria Finlay and <i>The Anthropology of Turquoise</i> by Ellen Meloy. I also gathered blue objects, studied the history of the blues in music, and generally opened myself to the color's energy.<br />
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The following is an excerpt of the statement that I wrote for the exhibition:<br />
When the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard wrote, “Without blue eyes, how may we really see the blue sky? Without black eyes, how may we look at the night?” he was not speaking literally but from a symbolic understanding that the concept of blueness must become alive in ones consciousness in order to awaken to its layered presence in our lives. In selecting work for this exhibition I focused on four distinct levels of engagement with the concept of blueness that seemed to be arising in the submitted art works.<br />
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The first type of engagement is present in works that encompassed a focus <i>above the surface</i> (sky, light, aerial imagery). The second includes works that focused on <i>physicality</i> (the body, objects, materials, and environment). The third includes works that focused on blue as <i>fluid surface</i> (water) and the fourth includes works with a focus <i>below the surface</i> (emotion, memory, spirit, and symbol). The content of the art works may also move between these areas in a multifaceted journey that is a testament to the power of creative imagination.<br />
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The exhibition includes the work of A&C alumni Cindy Cleary, Margi Rhode, faculty Fariba Bogzaran and a current student T.C. Moore. If you are in the Sebastopol/Santa Rosa area between now and March 11 when the exhibition ends stop by and immerse yourself in the world of this primary color.Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-70829131492139861332012-01-13T16:33:00.000-08:002012-01-13T16:33:00.445-08:00Winter 2012<em>We are engaged in entering the well of our life and in reaching as deeply into its sources as we can. </em><br />
~Ira Progoff <br />
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In many cultures winter is traditionally a time of gestation and reflection. Moving into a deepening relationship with individual and collective sources of creative energy is an integral component to the flowering of new life. It allows us to trust in the greater cyclical processes that continually move around and within us. As artists, each time we reach toward the sources that support us in our creativity, we find a place of renewal and inspiration.<br />
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<strong>Program updates:</strong> Every six years each program enters into a university review process to examine the strengths of the program and to consider areas that need to be modified. These areas include enrollment, assessment, course content, learning outcomes and professional development. 2012 is designated as the official review year for A&C although we began a process of re-visioning last year based on our own internal needs. Input is continuing to be gathered on possible directions for A&C’s future through student and faculty meetings, a student survey and a series of meetings with MA and MFA alumni who were selected from a wide range of criteria including graduation dates, creative practices and career applications. Future actions to be taken include student and alumni meetings, an alumni survey and the development of an A&C program advisory committee. <br />
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<strong>Staff changes:</strong> Core faculty <strong>Robbyn Alexander</strong> will be leaving her position as an A&C administrator as of January 14th. She will continue to teach, be on Review committees and be available for Final Project Advising. Adjunct faculty <strong>Amy Conger</strong> has accepted a part time Affiliate faculty position and will be coordinating Midpoint and Final Reviews and the Mentorship program as well as advising students on academic choices as they move through their programs. <br />
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Welcome to new faculty <strong>Sas Colby</strong> who will be facilitating A&C5670 Group Studio Practice: Art as Improvisation in the Winter quarter.<br />
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<strong>Upcoming events:</strong> <br />
<strong>NexUS12,</strong> the A&C Community Art Exhibition reception is Saturday, January 14 from 6:30-9pm.<br />
Bring a pot luck dish, family and friends and celebrate the dynamic and vital creativity that of our program.<br />
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An <strong>Open House</strong> for perspective students will take place on the Berkeley Campus on Saturday, January 28 at 10:30am. <strong>Please pass on this information to everyone you know who could benefit from an A&C immersion into creative practice. Many people who enter the program have said that a talk with a student or alumni convinced them to explore Arts & Consciousness. You have the capability to create a growing A&C community through your inspiration and actions! </strong><br />
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<strong>Partial Spring course preview:</strong> <br />
<strong>New course and faculty:</strong> A&C5670 Group Studio Practice: Writing and the Creative Process with faculty <strong>Alisa Golden</strong>, 1 unit, Thursdays, 4:30-7pm<br />
<strong>New course:</strong> A&C5670 Group Studio Practice: Dream Collage with faculty Robbyn Alexander, 2 units, Saturdays, April 14, 28 and May 12, 10:30am-6pm<br />
<strong>Returning:</strong> A&C5342 Art and Shamanism with faculty Dr. Mark Levy, 3 units, Mondays, 4:30-7pm<br />
A&C5675 Career Pathways with faculty Seth Eisen, 3 units, Wednesdays, 7:30-10pm<br />
A&C 5320 Art and Symbolic Process with faculty Margaret Lindsey, 3 units, Tuesdays, 4:30-7pm<br />
<strong></strong><strong></strong>Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-83278383336331250082011-12-18T17:55:00.000-08:002011-12-18T17:55:12.240-08:00In Memoriam<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfr3AAuregl_kwebui4lGOMo0v2KnuTaqX0_84PoRbPurVr6kHnDgNrEvrz2lDhLMBFKwjioHrOWAzQZn2QvFgFRVHwaYb_ItrRBQmTgh-SANRY39lULboJZ-MqRzr9sFveoSk-WcU04/s1600/john+anderson+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" oda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNfr3AAuregl_kwebui4lGOMo0v2KnuTaqX0_84PoRbPurVr6kHnDgNrEvrz2lDhLMBFKwjioHrOWAzQZn2QvFgFRVHwaYb_ItrRBQmTgh-SANRY39lULboJZ-MqRzr9sFveoSk-WcU04/s320/john+anderson+1.jpg" width="317px" /></a></div>John Anderson<br />
Born:1932, Chicago, Illinois <br />
Died: November 13, 2011, Inverness, California<br />
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<em>I was focused in the moment and began to paint without intention, very subtle impulses, from an inner world of my psyche, passed through my hand to become marks on the canvas.</em> <br />
John Anderson, from his book <em>Beginner’s Beginning, </em>2001<br />
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John Anderson was a gifted artist whose work will have a continuing impact in the contemporary art world. His inquiry into the relation between meditative practice and the outward manifestation of internal space is an important inspiration for all of us who are journeying in that creative territory.<br />
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The Arts & Consciousness gallery exhibited the work of John Anderson in <em>Through the Light</em> curated by Fariba Bogzaran along with works by Richard Bowman, Lee Mullican and Gordon Onslow Ford. A second exhibition in 2007 featured the paintings of John Anderson and the painting/mixed media works of his wife <a href="http://www.alchemicmuseum.com/">Mary Mountcastle Eubank</a>. He was an artist associate and advisor of the Lucid Art Foundation at Bishop Pine Preserve where he had lived since 1966 at the invitation of Gordon Onslow Ford.<br />
John’s paintings can be seen at the Weinstein Gallery, 383 Geary Street, San Francisco, CA through January 28, 2012 in the group exhibition <em><a href="http://weinstein.com/">Surrealism: New Worlds</a>.</em>Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-16067523972410883082011-11-03T20:17:00.000-07:002011-11-03T20:17:24.835-07:00Winter 2012 (Jan. 9-March 24) A&C Course Preview<strong>New Arts & Consciousness Faculty </strong><br />
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Welcome to <strong>Sas Colby</strong> who will be teaching <strong>A&C 4675.2 / 5670.2 Group Studio Practice: Art as Improvisation, 1.5 units Saturdays, 10am-5:30pm, March 3 & 10</strong><br />
This course is devoted to discovery and to breaking all the rules. Working with basic materials such as ink and string, mud and cardboard, we’ll gradually build a visual vocabulary by following a set of game-like instructions. We will experiment with drawing, word play, chance operations and outsider techniques, surprising ourselves with the results. We will delve deeply into improvisation and experimentation, learning how some of the best art comes from getting our minds out of the way. <br />
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<strong>Sas Colby</strong> has more than forty years of experience making, exhibiting and teaching art. <br />
Her innovative workshops are combinations of the nontraditional with a solid grounding in art basics. Sas’s mixed media artwork has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally. Her recent work includes participation in the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition artists book exhibition. She currently teaches workshops in Taos, New Mexico; Mallorca, Spain; and at the San Francisco Center for the Book. She has inspired many with her ability to make the creative process come alive. See her work at: www.sascolby.com.<br />
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<strong>Other Winter classes include:</strong><br />
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<strong>Stacy Hassen</strong>, an artist and educator is also the San Francisco Curator for ARAS (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. She will be teaching <strong>A&C 5300.1 Applied Alchemy: The Feminine in Alchemy, 3 units, Wednesdays, 4:30-7pm. </strong>Alchemy is an ancient tradition that belongs to Nature herself. This transformative process informs all creative endeavors and connects one with the intrinsic meaning that connects us all at the core. Alchemy invites an imaginal way of seeing and weaves myth, dreams, symbol and the creative arts into a tapestry that nourishes the soul and calls us to live life in a sacred manner. During this course, the intention is to connect with what is true and real as we explore, through the creative process, the three stages and the four elements of the alchemical process. The journey is initiatory as it explores the healing power of incubation, of symbols and of engaging the opposites to reveal the deeper meaning and the potential of the divine coniunctio. <br />
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<strong>Seth Eisen</strong> will be teaching a course focused on installation and the ways that space and place become resonating areas of transformation. <strong>A&C 5670.1 /4670.1 Group Studio Practice: Sight, Site, Cite, 3 units, Thursdays 7-9:30pm. </strong>This class will explore location-based installation and the continuum between personal and political, private and public, individual and collective. Classes will include interdisciplinary history and research as well as creative exercises and a final project presented to the public. We will respond creatively to aesthetic, political, and philosophical questions by considering elements of creating environments in community, gallery, installation, theater, Life/Art, streets or classroom. Student research and artwork will synthesize the streams, styles and genres leading towards a solo or group installation, exploring and animating sites in and around JFKU’s Berkeley campus and the Bay Area.<br />
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<strong>A&C 5255.1 Transformative Arts Seminar: Purpose & Practice, Robbyn</strong> <strong>Alexander,</strong> <strong>3 units, Tuesdays, 7:30-10pm.</strong> Students will explore “calling” as it relates to their own creative purpose and practice. Through participation in a “creative group inquiry,” students will learn to forge a collaborative, inter-relational learning environment in which they uncover and safely examine personal, cultural and/or social issues actively influencing their artistic development and the realization of their personal creative potential. Individual art works and their origins, meanings, intention and impact, will be intimately explored and synthesized from multiple perspectives, becoming vehicles of psycho-spiritual growth for both maker and viewer. The course will include experiential studio practices, creative research projects and a day-long transformative ritual.<br />
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<strong>A&C 5361.1 Beyond the Studio: Community Collaboration B, Sharon Sisikin, 3 units, Wednesdays, 7:30-10pm. </strong>This course continues to take a new look at contemporary art issues. We will examine art that incorporates spiritual and ethical renewal as well as social and environmental responsiveness, as methods employed by a growing movement of artists. The heart of this course is the notion that we as artists are natural problem solvers, and with this inherent skill we can work on solutions to many of the important issues of our times, as artists. Part A of this course is theoretical and included creative inquiry, research and project proposal development. Part B of this course will include practical experience in the community with projects in process and completed outside of the classroom, in the public realm. Additionally, projects will be visually documented and exhibited at JFK along with completed project proposals and oral presentations of the projects in process this quarter.<br />
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<strong>A&C 5312.1 Creativity and Consciousness, 3 units, Karen Sjoholm, </strong><strong>Tuesdays, 4:30-7pm</strong><br />
This course will explore the impact that myth, psychology, spirituality, and culture have on the embodiment of the individual creative process. The focus of the class centers on how archetypal energies of creation are mirrored in contemporary artistic practice. Guest lecturers, readings, experiential exercises and studio work will offer a deepening experience of this primal and powerful vitality. <br />
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<strong>A&C 5800.1: Studio Critique Seminar, 3 units, Jeremy Morgan, Mondays 7:30-10pm</strong><br />
The MFA Studio Critique Seminar allows students an ongoing critical dialogue with their peers under the supervision of an experienced artist. Students present original artwork to the group several times over an eleven week period and receive in-depth responses regarding issues of technical and formal resolution as well as more profound insight into issues of mean¬ing and culture. Students work to develop critical awareness and a sense of community as well as fostering the development of language for the examination of issues critical to a fully func¬tioning artist.Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-43765334531160343332011-10-24T22:49:00.000-07:002011-11-07T17:38:45.231-08:00History of Arts & Consciousness, Part Four<em>"…once you have seen into the mystery a little bit and found a way to express it, then you are on your way."</em> Gordon Onslow Ford<br />
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In the early 1990’s the Arts & Consciousness MA program focused on creativity as an embodied practice of consciousness with a deep grounding in spirituality, expressive arts, and inner process. <br />
<div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86ob0Xy9Te-3JxTG6jugLdZsv2U3CRExdXI3xhGpo4Xc6GB99QgwfvCuRg4rtF18OFRa-Ai6VZXPA2EB5RdGQAd6llhF12lGfxXvpUGKL0I3Xpbj717CtKSXm_QCQnfG6UBfUEKnO2IU/s1600/1997+A%2526C+catalog+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200px" ida="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh86ob0Xy9Te-3JxTG6jugLdZsv2U3CRExdXI3xhGpo4Xc6GB99QgwfvCuRg4rtF18OFRa-Ai6VZXPA2EB5RdGQAd6llhF12lGfxXvpUGKL0I3Xpbj717CtKSXm_QCQnfG6UBfUEKnO2IU/s200/1997+A%2526C+catalog+.jpg" width="153px" /></a></div>Under the direction of Michael Grady, who became Chair of the department in 1994, an MFA in Studio Arts was instituted alongside the MA in Transformative Arts. Linking both programs was the foundational premise of creative practice as an integration of personal growth and community/cultural change. The expansion of the program necessitated its move from Orinda, California to a site accessible to the larger Bay Area community.<br />
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A retrospective exhibition of the paintings of <a href="http://www.onslowford.com/">Gordon Onslow Ford</a> curated by faculty member <a href="http://www.bogzaran.com/">Fariba Bogzaran</a> in 1996 inaugurated the Arts & Consciousness program and gallery at its new location in Berkeley, California. His gracious accessibility made it possible for students, faculty and the public to connect with the Surrealist movement of which he had been a part and made it possible for his philosophy and art work to influence a contemporary generation of creative practitioners. The Lucid Art Foundation was co-founded with Onslow Ford and Bogzaran to support artists seeking inquiry to the inner worlds. Onslow Ford left his collection and legacy to the <a href="http://www.lucidart.org/">Lucid Art Foundation</a> in Inverness, California.<br />
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</tbody></table>Since then the gallery has showcased the work of many artists and groups including <a href="http://www.alexgrey.com/">Alex Grey</a>, <a href="http://weadartists.org/">WEAD</a>, and <a href="http://sova.psu.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_directory/lonnie_graham/lonnie_graham">Lonnie Graham</a> and has provided Arts & Consciousness students with an exhibition venue that makes visible their internal journey as artists and educators.Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-4110720811424466082011-10-03T13:18:00.000-07:002011-10-03T13:18:56.092-07:00History of Arts & Consciousness, Part Three<em>“Art is cultural communication…. Somehow we all relate to art. We wouldn’t and couldn’t survive without it. The artist’s role has always been to take the impossible road. To explore the unknown and test the outside limits.”</em> Gyongy Laky, founder of Fiberworks<br />
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In the 1970’s the Bay Area was alive with cultural innovation. While Charles Miedzinski was conceptualizing the JFK University <em>Consciousness and the Arts</em> program with its emphasis on the connection between art and spirit at UC Berkeley’s MA in Design program Ed Rossbach was redefining fiber craft. His use of materials such as newspaper, plastics, and cardboard and processes such as stapling or gluing moved craft away from function and towards expressive content and meaning. <br />
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</tbody></table> He mentored numerous graduates who became important members of the next generation of artist/teachers across the country.One of these students was <a href="http://www.gyongylaky.com/">Gyongy Laky</a> who, in 1973, founded Fiberworks, Center for the Textile Arts, in Berkeley, California. Fiberworks became an internationally recognized experimental school with a gallery and studios and a philosophy of innovation.<br />
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The program was incorporated into Lone Mountain College in San Francisco as an MFA in textiles and was picked up by JFK University in the late 1980’s. The MFA and MA in Arts and Consciousness were separate art degrees and although there was talk of bringing them together as one program the MFA was closed in1992.<br />
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Graduates from the program include contemporary artists such as <a href="http://www.miepreckler.com/">Mie Preckler</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktuvpxsh_Bs">Mildred Howard</a> whose Fiberworks MFA thesis projects reside in the JFK University library system on the Berkeley campus along with the thesis projects of the Arts and Consciousness program. Artist <a href="http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/nobanion">Nance O'Banion</a>, who taught at Fiberworks and is currently Chair of the printmaking department at the California College of Art, continues to link the past and present. Her work was shown in a solo exhibition in the Arts & Consciousness gallery in 2001 and she is a guest lecturer in the Creativity and Consciousness course.<br />
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I can only imagine the vital conversations that may have taken place between the faculty and students of these two visionary programs that sought to enlarge the field of creative practice to include psychological, spiritual and cultural dimensions. The dialogues that Arts & Consciousness faculty and students engage in today are directly descended from these diverse legacies.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Reference: Fiber Art: Visual Thinking and the Intelligent Handartist. 2003, 248pp. Kenneth Trapp, Regional Oral History Project, Bancroft Library</span>Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-89984918467190215212011-08-27T20:43:00.000-07:002011-09-02T16:16:13.665-07:00History of Arts & Consciousness, Part Two<em>At the heart of the artistic effort is the concern to expose and express what it means to be human at its most profound level</em>. Frederick Streng (from the <em>Consciousness and the Arts</em> brochure)<br />
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In the early 1980’s the Graduate School for the Study of Human Consciousness offered Master degrees in Religion and Consciousness, Parapsychology, Transpersonal Counseling and <em>Consciousness and the Arts</em>.<br />
The program brochure at that time emphasized the “eternal and transpersonal dimensions of art” and that art (including visual, music, dance, literature, drama etc.) was a “dynamic, transformative activity-not only for the artist but also for the viewer, participant and student of art history.”<br />
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Jack Weller was the Chair of the <em>Consciousness and the Arts</em> program and oversaw its development. He later became the founding Director of the Expressive Arts Therapy program at California Institute of Integral Studies and is now retired.<br />
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</tbody></table>In later versions of Charles Miedzinski’s curriculum proposal he focused on visionary and sacred art and this became the foundation of the program offerings. Those courses (for example: <em>Sources of Sacred Art</em> <em>and</em> <em>Symbolism</em>) were the ancestors of classes which we teach today, such as the core requirement <em>Art and Symbolic Process</em>. His background as a scholar of the humanities, art history, spirituality and psychology laid the foundation for how he visualized an academic program that connected art and the sacred. These areas also came together when he served as a consultant for the major exhibition<em> The Spiritual in Modern Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985 </em>at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The exhibition catalog continues to inspire artists interested in art as a spiritual practice.<br />
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In the late 1980’s the program took on the name that we know today - <em>Arts and Consciousness</em> and the brochure description links the transformative capacity of art making to both personal and community transformation - “Art has the power to transform our lives, our culture and our planet.”<br />
(from the <em>Graduate School for the Study of Human Consciousness</em> brochure) <br />
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The powerful work of A&C alumni demonstrates how deeply the connections between inner and outer worlds intersect. Whether their creative practice impacts aesthetics, philosophy, healing, health care, education or social issues, A&C alumni reflect what had always been the hope of the founders - that the transformative nature of art was a vital and necessary element of a larger cultural structure. <br />
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Next: The creation of the <em>Fiberworks MFA</em> program at JFK University<br />
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Karen Sjoholm, Arts and Consciousness Program Chairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17293218028059561837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-929436072806663403.post-27409089305596038682011-08-12T15:01:00.000-07:002011-08-27T23:12:09.078-07:00History of Arts & Consciousness, Part One<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have always felt that it is important to be grounded in knowledge of personal and cultural history because it creates a legacy of understanding that, in the words of the poet Rumi, "our lamp was lit by another’s light…". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over thirty years ago the seeds of our program in Arts & Consciousness (A&C) at John F. Kennedy University were planted by young artists and scholars who believed that the practice of art could lead to deep connections to spiritual, emotional and psychological dimensions. The "path" of consciousness was connected to wholeness, individuation, the sacred, intuition, and to the forms and materials that embodied this exploratory journey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The articulation of this process continues to be an on-going practice of current JFKU A&C students particularly in their exhibitions and written Masters’ projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our program began in the late 1970’s as Consciousness and the Arts housed within the Graduate School for the Study of Human Consciousness. The program brochure listed four other degree specializations including: Religion and Consciousness, Parapsychology, Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology. The Consciousness and the Arts program was visualized as a tree with the roots embedded in the study of consciousness and growing outward into three branches: studio practice, thematic seminars and workshops on creativity and personal process.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A&C faculty member Charles Miedzinski, who died from cancer on July 3, 2004, was a pivotal figure in the development of the program. In 1978 he submitted a curriculum proposal (beautifully hand written) for a "Creativity and Consciousness" program which, as he wrote, were "incipient, half-formed ideas" which would later take shape as the first guideposts on the journey that we continue today. </span><br />
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</tbody></table> <div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Art is a state of grace before whose light we uncoil our secret selves, and within which we receive promise of a greater whole. It asks nothing from us but our best.</em> Theodore Wolff<em> </em>(from the <em>Consciousness and the Arts </em>brochure) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be continued...</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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