Community Education Toward Social and Cultural Renewal
Saturday Watercolor Workshop with Chris Guilfoil
The Wisdom of the Past Bears the Seed of the Future: The Mother and Child Motif
Dec.20, 2008
9 to 12, Lunch Break, 1:00 to 4:30
Art Building, Eugene Waldorf School Campus
Instructor: Complete a veil painting by day's end. No experience needed. Come away refreshed and renewed. $65. includes all materials.
The Arts Enrichment Project is an adjunct program within Waldorf Teacher Education Eugene. Its mission is to create the space and the time where continuing education in the arts is available to students attending WTEE as well as the general community.
A guiding principle for the Arts Enrichment Project is to strengthen the bonds between individual artistic development and a healthy social life. Working with the insights of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science, courses are developed to awaken our creative will to transform chaotic social forms into increasingly more harmonious ones. The arts are a vital component in helping us to become what the artist Joseph Beuys called social sculptors.
Why Art Today?
In working with the arts we adjust our relationship to the world, we enhance the possibility to give it new life and meaning — we create forms for the future.
Art is an activity in which the soul ensouls itself — we build our consciousness of self and the world. This allows us to propose a living image of the future, a new relationship between human soul and world. This becomes the social setting for our growing individuality and accompanying freedom.