INDESTRUCTIBLE BEAUTY
EXPLORE CREATIVITY AS A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE
9 Week Online Course with Carrie Mae Rose
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Explore creativity as a spiritual practice.
We heal ourselves with creativity.
We are not victims when we are creating.
Our power comes from creating.
I found creative liberation through learning about other [women] artists.
These women gave me permission to use my story and my body.
We are not victims when we are creating.
Our power comes from creating.
Over 9 weeks we explore prompts, joy tasks and discussions.
I present images, prompts, and discussions to spark your curiousity.
We are not victims when we are creating.
Our power comes from creating.
My first sculpture show was called RECLAMATION in 2001.
I continue to be inspired by our cultural zeitgeist.
In 2023 as we ride this 4th wave of feminism, we rise together.
A reckoning is happening and creativity is our tool.
Our power comes from creating.
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We fear the very visibility without which we also cannot truly live.. and that visibility
which makes us most vulnerable is that which is also the source of our greatest strength.
Audre Lorde
The artist's maverick responsibility is sometimes to sugarcoat the bitter pill
and slip it down our gullet, telling us what we didn't think we wanted to know.
Barbara Kingsolver
We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.
Buckminster Fuller
Each artist is an antenna to the transcendental other. This is the promise of art,
and its fulfillment is never more near than the present moment.
Terence McKenna
[Culture—and this is my message to artists and to anybody else who cares to notice—culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness. And this plot prosecutes its goals through a limiting of language. The moral vision must come from the unconscious. Art’s task is to save the soul of mankind. And, that anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because if the artists, who are self-selected for being able to journey into the Other… if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
But we have come here, self-selected for our interest in the empowering capacity of art. We represent an affinity group; a population with the potential for mutagenic impact on the ideological structures of the rest of society. Someone here has what you need. And, if you can only figure out who it is, you can make a novel connection to move, then, into a new level of creativity.
We see that the ordinary linear expectations of history are breaking down, and that the-the truth of the imminence of the mystery is breaking through all the structures of denial of the male dominator paradigm that has been in place so long. -Excerpts from Terence McKenna talk]
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves
over and over to annihilation can that which
is indestructible in us be found.
Pema Chödrön
You are safe. You are held. There is a non-physical layer of forces surrounding and holding you. The universe communicates with you through plants, animals, geometry, symmetry and light. Meditation & stillness help you remember who you are. You are pure fire.
Here is what a few of the participants say:
I really feel like this process and this project is in such alignment with other things I am trying to work through right now.. in such a cool way and I do feel really committed to finishing my own project. Being a creative is something that I have always been but I have shy-ed from that role, like naming myself that, naming myself as someone who makes art and creates things, and has a project of my own, a story to tell that is mine.. and doing that in this project has been f*cking empowering, like really exciting!
This course has offered me, an untrained creative, tools and ideas to help me take my energy of creation and make something tangible and experienceable. I loved how Carrie Mae’s course used her life and work as example to understand and experience the process of inspiration and creation. I love this course, I love you, Carrie Mae, thank you for bringing this work forward and thank you for taking your talents and gifts seriously.
- Rachel Farha, Denver, CO
The Indestructible Beauty Course was a combination of lighting up the inspiration process within oneself and learning and being exposed to artists. Carrie Mae is an inspiring artist who deeply cares about art and building community within artists. I found it to be inspiring, informational, fun, supportive and brought new people together.
- Susan Robinson, Bay Area, SF
This course was fun. It was great connecting with other women who I did not know, pushing and challenging myself and the topics were inspiring and muse-like. The prompts were a great starting point, and some of my inspirations were pulled through to the final project. I also liked the check in time with other participants outside of the class.
- Elizabeth Athens, Phoenix, AZ
Inspiring. Illuminating. Beautiful. Safe. Fun! Diverse.This class has inspired me to reflect on my own history with creative processes in a way that I have not done before. I think there will be many benefits in taking that forward.
- Paige Pitzer, Missoula, MT
CMR has an incredible life story to date, and being able to share it with others—in some really private moments, was a privilege. It is rare to get to see this deeply into the process of an artist. This course brought reflection, big picture and small picture, connecting with others, and made me consider my process/creativity more holistically.
- Lisa Taranto, Olivebridge, NY
This course is an artistic experience and safe space to learn about Carrie Mae’s journey and draw creativity from our own trauma. I loved learning about Carrie Mae’s artistic journey and the safe space that she held for us to find our own creative outlet and expression from our own journey.
- Felicia Oskar, Vancouver, WA