Holding the Arts at the Heart: Flourishing in Living and Learning

July 1 - August 23, 2024

In the online Studio for Playful Inquiry, we are cultivating a community of courageous educators and caregivers who encourage one another to stay grounded in values that support creativity, generosity, and wholehearted humanity. Join us in July and August for this inspiring and confidence building Studio course! Over 8 weeks, as we read Your Brain on Art together, we will be mentored by teaching artists:

Miriam Beloglovsky

Sophie Anne Edwards

Georgia Heard

and Jesús Oviedo

“Becoming aware of what you like and don’t like, and better understanding how you are influenced, informed, and changed by arts encounters, creates opportunities for you to apply your own perceptual preferences to almost every area of your life.”
— Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

What if you had grown up in an environment where your creative birthright was encouraged to flourish?

Put art at the heart.

  • Reflect.

    With the help of gifted art educators, we’ll explore a variety of media through experiences designed for adults to engage in personally. Give yourself the gift of time to encounter processes and materials that will offer you meaningful practice with the power of the arts to spark imagination, reveal new understanding, and relieve stress. Let’s build a relationship with the arts as we learn about the latest developments in the field of neuro-aesthetics.

  • Explore.

    Through open studio times, readings, poetry, encouragement to go outside, and guidance from special guests, we’ll make connections between personal, cultural, and systemic narratives about the arts and learning. We’ll do this while we build a global community of courageous colleagues who have a deep commitment to keeping the arts at the heart of living and recognize the necessity of the arts to human flourishing.

Our Teaching Artists

Join us for this 8 week program dedicated to:

  • Deepening your professional knowledge and understanding of current research

  • Experiencing and reflecting on your personal engagement with the arts

  • Developing commitment, imagination, and capacity to expand the role of the arts in the classroom

  • Making connections between personal, cultural, and systemic narratives about the arts and learning

  • Participating in the creation of a global community of courageous colleagues.

“What the arts do to our brains and bodies allows us to give voice to important messages, reveal our emotions, drive innovation, spark creativity, raise ethical and moral issues, and shepherd in new eras of humanity.”

— Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, Your Brain on Art