Review: The Artist’s Rule: Nurturing Your Creative Soul with Monastic Wisdom
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/$16.99…
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The Sound of Silence and the Silence of Sound: On Having Ears to Hear
And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more. People talking without speaking, People hearing without listening. People writing songs that…
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Icons as Written Theology
Sr Mary Stella McNamee, icon writer of the Monastery of Our Lady of Hyning, offers a reflection on icons.
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Thoughts on Consecrated Life for Artists
This week, we have seen how artists can apply monastic wisdom and techniques to their creative lives, as well as to their spiritual lives….
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The Art Monastery: Monastic Technologies [Part Two]
Nathan Rosquist continues his discussion of ‘open-source monasticism’ by sharing specific monastic ‘technologies’ used in the Art Monastery Project.
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The Art Monastery: Open-Source Monasticism [Part One]
Nathan Rosquist, founder of the Art Monastery San Francisco, talks about using both Western and Eastern monasticism as ‘open-source software’ for artistic creation.
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Brush Stroked Incense: How Painting and Monks Taught Me to Pray
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.
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The Artist Begins Again and Again
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.
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Art & Monasticism Symposium
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…
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