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Sunday, December 14, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
New Essay by David Adams, 2014
An Overview History of Anthroposophical Visual Arts in the USA
by David Adams, 2014
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| Rudolf Steiner Weaving Light |
At the turn of the twentieth century a radical spirit
of change began to sweep through the established
forms of visual art. Artists longed to forge new languages
of art working out of pure color and pure form, expressing
the essential, invisible reality of their subjects and not
only an imitation of their outer sensory appearance. Rudolf
Steiner (1861-1925) shared this progressive mood
of absolute reorientation and change among artists in
middle Europe, but he felt that the changes beginning to
manifest required the artist to grow attentive to the world
of the spirit in a newly objective, concrete, and scientific
manner and to develop new means of expression to reveal
something of this world through works of art.
Here is a link to the entire essay with many pictures.
A Visual Arts Intensive—
Painting and Drawing for
Teachers
with Van James
Sunday, June 28 to Friday, July
3, 2015
Honolulu, Hawai’i
A unique six-day drawing and painting retreat for teachers,
artists, therapists and parents will take place in Hawai’i this summer from
June 28 to July 3, 2015. The course will look at how children first learn to
draw and paint and how to best promote these arts with techniques and lessons
appropriate to the developmental stages of the child. A Waldorf approach,
appropriate to any educational setting, will be utilized with special attention
to Rudolf Steiner’s ideas and some of the latest research on child development
in connection with the arts.
Due to the special nature of Hawai’i and its spirit of
place, these intensive classes will be held mornings only so that participants
can have their afternoons free to explore the beauty of the island of O’ahu.
The artistic sessions will be held at the Honolulu Waldorf School, MaKai
Campus, 5257 Kalaniana’ole Highway, 96821, in an ocean-side
art studio. The school is located on a bus route and a selection of restaurants
is located directly across the street.
Visual Arts Intensive
Schedule
June 28, Sunday—8:30-10:30am, Drawing for K-2
10:30-11am,
Break
11am-12:30pm,
Painting for K-2nd grade
June 29, Monday—8:30-10:30am, Drawing for 3-4
10:30-11am,
Break
11am-12:30pm,
Painting for 3-4th grade
June 30, Tuesday—8:30-10:30am, Drawing 4-5
10:30-11am,
Break
11am-12:30pm
Painting 4-5th grade
July 1, Wednesday—8:30-10:30am, Drawing 5-6
10:30-11am,
Break
11am-12:30pm,
Painting 5-6th grade
July 2, Thursday—8:30-10:30am, Drawing 7
10:30-11am,
Break
11am-
12:30pm, Painting 7th grade
July 3, Friday—8:30-10:30am, Drawing 8
10:30-11am,
Break
11am-12:30pm,
Painting 8th grade
The fee of $360 includes two sessions per day for six days,
all materials, and refreshments at break times. An early-bird fee of $300 is
offered to early registrations until March 1, 2015. Space is limited. All
housing and meal arrangements are left up to individuals and are not included
or arranged by the Arts Intensive. (Package deals from your own locale,
including air, hotel, and car, will likely be the most reasonable option.)
For registration
and further details contact art4hawaii@gmail.com or 808-395-1268.
Student Work:
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Newsletter #41, Spring/Summer 2014 Now Posted
Our latest Newsletter is now posted to read. Click to read, or read them all at the list to the right.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Summer Conference in Fair Oaks, California
Presented By:
Christian Hitsch and many others
Days: 3
August 1st - August 3rd
Time:
Friday, 7pm–8:45pm; Opening Session; Saturday, 8:30am–9pm; Sunday, 8:30am–12:30pm
Price:
$135 through July 3; $145 July 4–25; $160 at the door. Online registration closes July 25.
Meal Options:
Pre-register to guarantee meals. Breakfasts (Sat–Sun) two: $17.00; Lunch (Sat only): $14.75; Dinner (Fri Only) $14.75; (Sat Only) $14.75; Boxed lunch to go (Sun): $10.00.
Registration Notes:
Online registration closes July 25, Registration check-in: Friday, August 1, 5:30–7pm
MERCURY STANDING IN THE BALANCEThe Genesis and Task of the Anthroposophical Art ImpulseCo-Sponsored by the Art Section of the School of Spiritual ScienceChristian Hitsch, keynote lecturerWorkshop presenters:David Adams, Bert Chase, Patricia Dickson, Carrie Gibbons, Brian Gray, Christopher Guilfoil, Michael Howard, Van James, Ted Mahle, Patrick StolfoDear Fellow ArtistsThere are many things happening in the world of art . As anthroposophists and artists we have a responsibility to explore together how we can hold the core of what Rudolf Steiner brought as the anthroposopohical artistic initiative and bring it forward to the 21st Century. This event will allow us time to explore together artistically and hold conversations in smaller groups to see how each of us can play a role in bringing these impulses to life.“I have therefore come to believe that the world’s ecological balance depends on more than just our ability to restore balance between civilization’s ravenous appetite for resources and the fragile equilibrium of the earth’s environment...In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves…” Al Gore, Earth in the Balance, 1992As the pace of global civilization only accelerates, our human capacity to maintain inner and outer balance, harmony and wholeness seems ever harder to achieve. Already in 1907, Rudolf Steiner introduced practical examples of a new direction in the visual arts that serve the contemporary human need to develop our capacity to live in balance with all people and the living earth as a whole.With reference to Rudolf Steiner’s phrase, “Mercury standing in the balance,” Christian Hitsch will describe Steiner’s own artistic accomplishments as the basis for elaborating Steiner’s vision for ways the arts can serve the spiritual needs of our time.“For it is humanity’s mission on earth to transform the planet artistically." Rudolf Steiner, The Royal Art in a New Form, January 2, 1906Christian Hitsch, Master artist, craftsman and architect, adept in many mediums; his masterworks are inspired by his deep connection to anthroposophy; co-founder of the school for Goethean Studies in Anthroposophy, Sculpture, and Pedagogy in Vienna; among his outstanding achievements are 16 years as leader of the Art Section for the School of Spiritual Science and the task to redesign and renovate the main hall of the Goetheanum according to the indications of Rudolf Steiner. Currently on staff at GMBH Architects, Switzerland.Time: Friday, August 17pm–8:45pm; Opening Session; Saturday, August 2nd8:30am–9pm; Sunday,August 3rd 8:30am–12:30pmPlease note:
4:00pm Friday, August 1, Class Lesson #5 for Members of the School of Spiritual Science. Blue Cards required.
7:00pm Sunday, August 3, presentation by Christian Hitsch on the Genesis and Task of the Art Section for any Section Member of the School for Spiritual Science. No Blue Cards required.
Workshops: 2:30–3:45pm and 4:00–5:30pm
1) An Experience with Social Sculpture
Working with this relatively new approach to a "social art," we will engage in a number of artistic, aesthetic, and social exercises including practices to enhance perception, gather or transform substances, and consider movement and archetypal forces, ideally leading to performance of an improvised group social-sculpture art work.
David Adams, PhD, taught art history at Sierra College since 1996 ; former Waldorf teacher; occasional performance artist; edits and writes for the Art Section Newsletter; Secretary/Treasurer of the Council of the Art Section in North America.
Carrie Gibbons, MA, Social Sculpture, Oxford Brookes University, U.K.; currently a doctoral candidate in Transpersonal Psychology, Sophia University, CA; researcher in social sculpture; and faculty member of the Social Therapy Program, Camphill California.
2) Looking Forward, Looking Back: An Exploration of the Architrave of the 1St Goetheanum
A collaborative working on the conference theme of “Balance” through entering into the world of formative forces in modeling the movements of the architrave and utilizing imaginative exercises.
Bert Chase, MA, Architect, joined the Emerson College Architect’s Group in 1973; teacher, lecturer, and writer on Rudolf Steiner’s impulse for the arts; architect practice based in Vancouver, Canada.
Patricia Dickson, MA, Art and Psychology, Director of Visual Arts, RSC; two decades as an arts faculty member with an emphasis on clay sculpture.
3) Drawing Rudolf Steiner’s Planetary Seals
As one draws the planetary seals it is possible to experience artistic metamorphosis as the creative deeds of Spiritual Beings. Transforming the Mars Seal into the Mercury and Jupiter Seals are explored as seeds of future impulses for anthroposophical art.
Brian Gray, BArch and MLArch, Director of Foundation Program in Anthroposophy, RSC, faculty member for 33 years; research includes sacred architecture, star wisdom, music, cosmic evolution, spiritual streams, and esoteric Christianity; author, Discovering the Zodiac in the Raphael Madonna Series.
4) The So-Called Slanted Drawing Technique
An exploration of the artist’s creative freedom in relationship to the fullness of qualities found within light and dark drawing. The intention is to focus upon the intensification of one's own activity of drawing.
Christopher Guilfoil , Waldorf class teacher, high school teacher, art teacher, adult educator, mentor and public speaker; international teacher and mentor in Waldorf schools and teacher training programs, especially in China, Taiwan and Malaysia, and conducts seminars and visual arts workshops.
5) An Introduction to Light Art
A consideration of what Rudolf Steiner had to say about light as an artistic medium. There will be a demonstration of how light can be used to make Light Music, as well as the opportunity for participants to try it out for themselves.
Michael Howard, sculptor, painter and artistic researcher; explores themes such as creating visible speech and visible music, most recently with the medium of light to create Light Music; editor, Art as Spiritual Activity, and author, Educating the Will; currently researching a new book with the working title, In Metamorphosis, on the role art has played in shaping human consciousness.
6) Polarity, Metamorphosis, and Balance: Color Dynamics in the Goetheanum Cupola Paintings
The 1st and 2nd Goetheanum ceiling paintings exhibit a unique presentation in color contrasts, mediations, and harmonies that we will explore by way of observation, conversation, and artistic practice with pastels.
Van James, graduate San Francisco Art Institute, Emerson College, and Goetheanum Wagner School of Painting; Honolulu Waldorf High School art teacher; editor, Pacifica Journal; chairman, Anthroposophical Society, Hawai’i; award winning author, including Spirit and Art and The Secret Language of Form, and most recently, Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart: Learning the Natural Way to Draw.
7) Pastel Drawing: The Four Elements
Rudolf Steiner suggested a threefold path for the color artist: color, form and motif–working “out of the color” and then as the colors deepen and overlap, form flows out, and culminates in the motif. We will apply these principles with pastels in a dynamic scene of Earth, Water, Air and Fire.
Ted Mahle, BS, Art Education; graduate Beppe Assenza Painting School at the Goetheanum; 3 years painting therapist, Sonnhalde Schulheim Curative Home; Director of the Arts Program at the Rudolf Steiner College for 20 years; currently teaching painting and drawing at Rudolf Steiner College.
8) From Intention, to Gesture, to Form
An exploration, in clay sculpture, of how an invisible, essential motif or quality can become the impetus for movement, and brought to rest again in tangible expression by the artist. Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s Representative of Man, we will practice the aesthetic intensification of what lies enchanted within the natural human form.
Patrick Stolfo, BFA, graduate sculpture training at Emerson College under A. John Wilkes, and MA in Waldorf Ed.; Waldorf School educator since 1978 in sculptural arts, art history, and architecture; and currently faculty member at Alkion Center, Hawthorne Valley and at Antioch University and the Center for Anthroposophy.
Please note:
4:00pm Friday, August 1, Class Lesson #5 for Members of the School of Spiritual Science. Blue Cards required.
7:00pm Sunday, August 3, presentation by Christian Hitsch on the Genesis and Task of the Art Section for any Section Member of the School for Spiritual Science. No Blue Cards required.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Upcoming Art Lectures and Workshops in New Zealand with Van James
The Dynamic Language
of Linear Design:
Meander, Koru, Knot,
and Braid
A Drawing Workshop at
Taruna College
Friday 4th
April (7-9.00pm)
Saturday 5th
April (9.00am – 5.00pm)
Linear designs such as
meanders, korus, knots and braids have held deep significance since prehistoric
times. Their rhythmic forms and
patterns indicate a journey of transformation and empowerment for the one who
successfully masters the secret language of their design. Labyrinths, mazes, and encircling
mandalas, all are iconography of artistic and spiritual
power, used for concentration, visualization, meditation and the journey of
self-realization. In this workshop
we will practice simple knot and meander form drawings as a basis for creating
more complex interwoven patterns and designs. In this way we will explore the
wonderous visual language of dynamic linear form drawing. No drawing experience
necessary.
Van James, an experienced international art educator based at the
Honolulu Waldorf School in Hawaii, will lead this workshop. He is the author of
several books on art including Drawing
with Hand, Head and Heart.
This is a course for non-artists as well as those who have artistic
experience. No prior skills are needed.
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For booking ring: 06
8777174
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Course Fee: $120+GST
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33 Te Mata Peak Road
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Havelock North 4157
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Programme:
Friday 4th April
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7.00-9.00 pm
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Introductory Talk
with practical exercises
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Saturday 5th April
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9.00-10.30 am
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Workshop 1
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Morning Tea
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11.00-12.30 am
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Workshop 2
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Lunch
(Bring your own)
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1.30-3.00 pm
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Workshop 3
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Afternoon Tea
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3.30-5.00 pm
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Workshop 4
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Drawing materials:
crayons, pastels and paper will be provided
The Origins and Mysteries of Art
Lecture and Workshop
with
Van James
11th
and 12th April
Friday
7.30 pm, Saturday 1pm-5pm
How
and why did people first make pictorial representations? What can we learn
about ourselves as contemporary individuals from prehistoric and even ancient
Egyptian art? The beginnings of art are a mystery that lies at the very
foundation of who we are as human beings and the capacities, such as memory and
mental picturing, that we take for granted. The lecture will survey Palaeolithic
to ancient Egyptian art while the workshop will explore the art of these
periods through pastel drawing.
Van James is a
Hawai’i based artist, author and teacher with a degree in painting and drawing
from the San Francisco Art Institute, USA, and diplomas from Emerson College in
England, and the Goetheanum Painting School in Switzerland. He has been
an art instructor at the Honolulu Waldorf School for 30 years and is a guest
instructor at Taruna College in New Zealand, and Rudolf Steiner College in
California. He is chairman of the Anthroposophical Society in Hawai’i and
editor of Pacifica Journal. He is also the author of several books on
art and culture including Spirit and Art and The Secret Language of
Form. His latest book is Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart.
Rudolf
Steiner House, 104 Michaels Ave, Ellerslie
Lecture
$20, Saturday workshop $50, $60 for both
As
places are limited please call Bernadette on 3611368 to register
Mandala
The
Art of Centering the Self
Lecture
and Workshop
with
Van James
28th
and 29th March
Mandalas are an artistic
expression in both East and West, used for visualization, meditation and
initiation. The mandala creates an enclosed sacred space, a cosmogram, which
represents the Self within the universe. Hildegard von Bingen, Rudolf Steiner,
Carl Jung, and the fourteenth Dalai Lama, all created mandalas and worked with
their power to fashion a center of energy within the great, universal periphery. Carl Jung said of mandalas: "In
accord with the Eastern conception, the mandala symbol is not only a means of
expression, but works an effect.
It reacts upon its maker. Very ancient magical effects lie hidden in
this symbol…the magic of which has been preserved in countless folk
customs." The evening lecture will consider the worldwide phenomena of
historic mandalas and the workshop will explore the practical-artistic aspects
of this sacred form, culminating in the creation of our own individual mandala.
The lecture and workshop may be attended separately, but both together are
recommended. No artistic experience is necessary. All materials are included.
Van James is a
Hawai’i based artist, author and teacher with a degree in painting and drawing from
the San Francisco Art Institute, USA, and diplomas from Emerson College in
England, and the Goetheanum Painting School in Switzerland. He has been
an art instructor at the Honolulu Waldorf School for 30 years and is a guest
teacher at Taruna College in New Zealand, and Rudolf Steiner College in
California. He is chairman of the Anthroposophical Society in Hawai’i and editor
of Pacifica Journal. He is also the author of several books on art and
culture including Spirit and Art and The Secret Language of Form.
His latest book is Drawing with Hand, Head and Heart.
Rudolf
Steiner House, 104 Michaels Ave, Ellerslie
Lecture
$20, Saturday workshop $50, $60 for both
As
places are limited please call Bernadette on 3611368 to register
Enlivening Our Work through the Arts
An evening with VAN JAMES
Wednesday 2nd April, 2014
In our time when technology increasingly
pervades the home and school it is important to be aware of and to help foster
the healthy human capacities that children will need for their challenging
future.
This
hands-on lecture-demonstration is for parents, care givers, teachers, and those
interested in how learning is supported through the development of creative
faculties by means of the arts.
We
will explore the importance of children’s drawings and how they lay the
groundwork for skills and faculties such as visual thinking, cognitive feeling
(emotional intelligence), and moral imagination. We will focus on basic
artistic principles that enhance the learning experience in the early classes
and provide a basis for confident and skillful work in the upper school.
Van James is a Hawai’i based artist, author and educator; a graduate of the San
Francisco Art Institute, Emerson College in England, and the Goetheanum School
of Painting in Switzerland. He teaches art at the Honolulu Waldorf High School
and is a regular guest instructor at Taruna College in New Zealand, Rudolf
Steiner College in California, and numerous schools and trainings in Asia. He
is editor of Pacifica Journal and
chairman of the Anthroposophical Society in Hawai’i, as well as the author of
several books on art and culture including Drawing with
Hand, Head and Heart: Learning the Natural Way to Draw.
THE ROLE OF ART
IN EDUCATION
An EVENING WITH VAN JAMES
Wednesday 9th April, 7.30 p.m.
Titirangi Rudolf Steiner School-- Eurythmy Hall
~Koha requested~
In
our time when technology increasingly pervades the home and school it is
important to be aware of and to help foster the healthy human capacities that
children will need for their challenging future.
This
hands-on lecture-demonstration is for parents, educators and those interested
in how learning is supported through the development of creative faculties.
We
will explore the importance of children’s drawings and how they lay the
groundwork for skills and faculties such as visual thinking, cognitive feeling
(emotional intelligence), and moral imagination. We will focus on basic
artistic principles that enhance the learning experience in the early classes
and provide a basis for confident and skillful work in the upper school.
Van James is
a Hawai’i based artist, author and educator; a graduate of the San Francisco
Art Institute, Emerson College in England, and the Goetheanum School of
Painting in Switzerland. He teaches art at the Honolulu Waldorf High School and
is a regular guest instructor at Taruna College in New Zealand, Rudolf Steiner
College in California, and numerous schools and trainings in Asia. He is editor
of Pacifica
Journal
and chairman of the Anthroposophical Society in Hawai’i, as well as the author
of several books on art and culture including Drawing with
Hand, Head and Heart: Learning the Natural Way to Draw.
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