PARW 7690 - Women's Sacred Arts and Cultural Transformation

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

This class is designed to provide insight into women's sacred arts and to explore their impact on cultural transformation. We will gather and assemble fragments in an internal search that will enable us to release and increase our own creativity, even as we focus on the work of contemporary artists who choose to express sacred themes and transform cultural attitudes. Our ability to learn about our self is much enhanced if we become the participant and observer in our own experience, so we will bring our own rich traditions into the cultural mix as we begin a personal exploration of the spiritual creativity inherent in our conscious and unconscious Being. The collective work of an artist constitutes an autobiography of sacred art, and our objective will be to connect the meaning to the symbolism of art, even as we search areas of our existence, and collage together its different influences. We will do all this while we focus on letting our art be its own vehicle for discovery, for art is not a vague, transitory, and isolated production, but a power that must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul. It leads to the appreciation of one's spirituality, and to profound cultural transformation. Artists have a duty to their art and to themselves: They must search deeply in their souls and tend them so that their art has something to say.

Credits:

2.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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