Christine Valters Paintner, The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom. Notre Dame, IN: Sorin Books, 2011, xiv + 171 pp., £14.99 paper. The Artist’s Rule is basically Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way meets the Rule of St.…
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening. People writing songs that voices never share. And no one dared, Disturb the sound of silence. –Simon & Garfunkel, “The…
Sr Mary Stella McNamee, icon writer of the Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning, offers a reflection on icons.
This week, we have seen how artists can apply monastic wisdom and techniques to their creative lives, as well as to their spiritual lives. By way of concluding the week, I would like to explore how monks and members of other…
Nathan Rosquist continues his discussion of ‘open-source monasticism’ by sharing specific monastic ‘technologies’ used in the Art Monastery Project.
Nathan Rosquist, founder of the Art Monastery San Francisco, talks about using both Western and Eastern monasticism as ‘open-source software’ for artistic creation.
Preston Yancey, an incoming MLitt student in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, offers a meditation on how the discipline of the Divine Office deepened his experience of painting as prayer.
Christine Valters Paintner, a Benedictine oblate and online Abbess of Abbey of the Arts, shares wisdom for artists from the Desert Fathers and the Benedictine tradition.
Next week, Transpositions will be hosting an online symposium on Art and Monasticism. Historically, monasticism has been a fertile field for the cultivation of the visual arts, especially icons, as well as musical compositions, especially those designed to help with the…