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Art for Life - Four year part-time program
This path focuses on the
development of artistic skills and their application to healing
and transformation. The course is for anyone seeking creative change;
physical, spiritual, mental or emotional.
Upon successful completion of all requirements of the four-year
program, students receive a diploma. The first two years of this
course also fulfill the requirements of foundation studies for
an art
therapy
diploma at Tobias School of Art, England (assessment required).
New course starts in September of each year. The program has a
format of three 10 week terms per year, with 9 hours in class (including
compulsory anthroposophical studies) plus 6-8 hours homework.
Admission is through interview and presentation of portfolio. Prospective students must be willing to engage in art as a path
of spiritual, social, and personal development. Participation in
an introductory weekend is highly recommended.
For dates and fees see Arscura current course calendar. All
courses create an integrated, yet flexible learning path. All courses recognize the non-verbal artistic process
as central to a meaningful learning experience.
All individual terms, courses and seminars may be
taken simply for personal growth and development or for credit
toward an Arscura diploma.
Art for Life Course Outline:
| Year One -- One Weekday 10-4 |
Term 1
Fall
Year 1 |
BLACK & WHITE COURSE
Experiencing light and darkness in art and overcoming the fear of drawing. The four elements as a diagnostic tool. |
Term 2
Winter
Year 1 |
COLOUR COURSE
Awakening to the emotional power of the individual colours in painting. Water-colour, egg tempera, and Goethe's colour theory. The seven soul gestures as awakeners of consciousness. |
Term 3
Spring
Year 1 |
CLAY COURSE
Fundamental principles of sculpture. The power of three-dimensional space. The metamorphosis of will. |
| Year Two -- One Weekday 10-4 |
Term 4
Fall
Year 2 |
INDEPENDENT LEARNING COURSE
Exploring the steps of the creative process on an individual journey. The "I" being as researcher and transformer. All three media. |
Term 5
Winter
Year 2 |
VEIL PAINTING COURSE
The water-colour technique that brings luminosity and transparency into painting and also into the soul. Introduction to Biography work. |
Term 6
Spring
Year 2 |
"THE ARTIST", Part One
Building a spiritual Goetheanum: Drawing, painting and modelling in the light of Rudolf Steiner's artistic impulse. Form drawing, capitals, and "growing" a painting. |
| Year Three -- One Weekday 10-4 |
Term 7
Fall
Year 3 |
"THE ARTIST", Part Two
Building a spiritual Goetheanum: Drawing, painting and modelling in the light of Rudolf Steiner's artistic impulse. Form drawing, capitals, and "growing" a painting. |
Term 8
Winter
Year 3 |
"THE THERAPIST" & THERAPEUTIC PROCESS, Part One:
The artist as healer. Moving from the seven steps of soul development toward the 12 spiritual capacities. Beginning to return the gifts learned. |
Term 9
Spring
Year 3 |
"THE THERAPIST" & THERAPEUTIC PROCESS, Part Two:
The artist as healer. Moving from the seven steps of soul development toward the 12 spiritual capacities. Beginning to return the gifts learned. |
| Year Four -- One Weekday 10-4 |
Term 10
Fall
Year 4 |
PRACTICAL APPLICATION: PLACEMENT, Part One
Sharing what was learned with the outside world. Supervision. |
Term 11 Winter
Year 4 |
PRACTICAL APPLICATION: PLACEMENT, Part Two
Deepening what was learned with the outside world. Supervision. |
Term 12
Spring
Year 4 |
GRADUATION COURSE
Written paper, case study, self & peer assessment and presentation from placement. Helping each other to look toward future steps. |
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| "The Art for Life program at Arscura fostered in me personal growth and enrichment of a most
profound order. It prepared me for facilitating therapeutic art in the community and established in me
a deep commitment to art as a transformational process and humanizing expression" -- Elana Wolff, writer, editor, art facilitator
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