On-Demand · Other Ways of Knowing: Art and Mysticism with Professor Jackie Tileston
Thirteen session class via streaming video links
Admission: $150 Paid Patreon Members/ $75 General Admission
Please note: Orders fulfilled weekly on Wednesdays
This course explores ways in which artists have accessed alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and embodying non-visible realities as a source for their work.
As a pioneer of abstraction in the early 1900’s, Hilma Af Klint channeled a complex and highly original body of abstract symbolic work in secrecy. Accessing spiritual realms has been the subject of early European Modernisms investigations into Theosophy and Anthroposophy, as well as the primary intention of Tibetan Thangkas and Indian Tantra paintings.
How do artists attempt to align the viewer/maker with the contemplative realm, heightened states of consciousness, or transcendence? We will examine a wide field of artists in an attempt to understand the possibilities of the “mystical” and “non-ordinary” states of consciousness in art and contemporary culture, where questions about consciousness and the nature of reality are being addressed with renewed vigor.
Each session consist of a lecture and discussion, and some classes include meditations and other exercises.
SCHEDULE OF TOPICS
Class One: Introduction: Overview of History of Mysticism in Art
Class Two: Intuition and Imagination, An Intro to Hilma af Klint and Theosophy
Class Three: Hilma and Creative processes, Steiner, Continued
Class Four: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Modernism
Class Five: Carl Jung, Emma Kunz, Georgiana Houghton, and Other Cases
Class Six: The Abstract Sublime
Class Seven: Tantra Paintings and Philosophy
Class Eight: Eastern Influences, Buddhamind
Class Nine: Psychedelic Gnosis
Class Ten: Contemporary Artists
Class Eleven: Contemporary Artists Continued
Class Twelve: Final Thoughts and Conversation?
Jackie Tilestonis a painter and Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches in an interdisciplinary MFA program as well as teaching a seminar "Mystics and Visionaries: Art and Other Ways of Knowing". She has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for over 25 years, and is fascinated with "non-ordinary" states of consciousness. She spent her childhood as an itinerant “Third Culture Kid,” living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. She has a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University.
Her paintings are heterotopic spaces in which recombinant strategies and nomadic thinking create complex images that investigate the contemporary sublime and states of being. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, and group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Art in General and the Painting Center (New York), and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. Tileston is the recipient of the Core Fellowship Residency, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2004), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2005), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2011) and residency (2017).
Images: Jackie Tileston,Carrying the Bloom(detail), 2020; Agnes Pelton, “Messengers,” 1932;
Thirteen session class via streaming video links
Admission: $150 Paid Patreon Members/ $75 General Admission
Please note: Orders fulfilled weekly on Wednesdays
This course explores ways in which artists have accessed alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and embodying non-visible realities as a source for their work.
As a pioneer of abstraction in the early 1900’s, Hilma Af Klint channeled a complex and highly original body of abstract symbolic work in secrecy. Accessing spiritual realms has been the subject of early European Modernisms investigations into Theosophy and Anthroposophy, as well as the primary intention of Tibetan Thangkas and Indian Tantra paintings.
How do artists attempt to align the viewer/maker with the contemplative realm, heightened states of consciousness, or transcendence? We will examine a wide field of artists in an attempt to understand the possibilities of the “mystical” and “non-ordinary” states of consciousness in art and contemporary culture, where questions about consciousness and the nature of reality are being addressed with renewed vigor.
Each session consist of a lecture and discussion, and some classes include meditations and other exercises.
SCHEDULE OF TOPICS
Class One: Introduction: Overview of History of Mysticism in Art
Class Two: Intuition and Imagination, An Intro to Hilma af Klint and Theosophy
Class Three: Hilma and Creative processes, Steiner, Continued
Class Four: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Modernism
Class Five: Carl Jung, Emma Kunz, Georgiana Houghton, and Other Cases
Class Six: The Abstract Sublime
Class Seven: Tantra Paintings and Philosophy
Class Eight: Eastern Influences, Buddhamind
Class Nine: Psychedelic Gnosis
Class Ten: Contemporary Artists
Class Eleven: Contemporary Artists Continued
Class Twelve: Final Thoughts and Conversation?
Jackie Tilestonis a painter and Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches in an interdisciplinary MFA program as well as teaching a seminar "Mystics and Visionaries: Art and Other Ways of Knowing". She has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for over 25 years, and is fascinated with "non-ordinary" states of consciousness. She spent her childhood as an itinerant “Third Culture Kid,” living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. She has a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University.
Her paintings are heterotopic spaces in which recombinant strategies and nomadic thinking create complex images that investigate the contemporary sublime and states of being. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, and group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Art in General and the Painting Center (New York), and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. Tileston is the recipient of the Core Fellowship Residency, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2004), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2005), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2011) and residency (2017).
Images: Jackie Tileston,Carrying the Bloom(detail), 2020; Agnes Pelton, “Messengers,” 1932;
Thirteen session class via streaming video links
Admission: $150 Paid Patreon Members/ $75 General Admission
Please note: Orders fulfilled weekly on Wednesdays
This course explores ways in which artists have accessed alternative ways of seeing, knowing, and embodying non-visible realities as a source for their work.
As a pioneer of abstraction in the early 1900’s, Hilma Af Klint channeled a complex and highly original body of abstract symbolic work in secrecy. Accessing spiritual realms has been the subject of early European Modernisms investigations into Theosophy and Anthroposophy, as well as the primary intention of Tibetan Thangkas and Indian Tantra paintings.
How do artists attempt to align the viewer/maker with the contemplative realm, heightened states of consciousness, or transcendence? We will examine a wide field of artists in an attempt to understand the possibilities of the “mystical” and “non-ordinary” states of consciousness in art and contemporary culture, where questions about consciousness and the nature of reality are being addressed with renewed vigor.
Each session consist of a lecture and discussion, and some classes include meditations and other exercises.
SCHEDULE OF TOPICS
Class One: Introduction: Overview of History of Mysticism in Art
Class Two: Intuition and Imagination, An Intro to Hilma af Klint and Theosophy
Class Three: Hilma and Creative processes, Steiner, Continued
Class Four: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Modernism
Class Five: Carl Jung, Emma Kunz, Georgiana Houghton, and Other Cases
Class Six: The Abstract Sublime
Class Seven: Tantra Paintings and Philosophy
Class Eight: Eastern Influences, Buddhamind
Class Nine: Psychedelic Gnosis
Class Ten: Contemporary Artists
Class Eleven: Contemporary Artists Continued
Class Twelve: Final Thoughts and Conversation?
Jackie Tilestonis a painter and Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches in an interdisciplinary MFA program as well as teaching a seminar "Mystics and Visionaries: Art and Other Ways of Knowing". She has been a practitioner of yoga and meditation for over 25 years, and is fascinated with "non-ordinary" states of consciousness. She spent her childhood as an itinerant “Third Culture Kid,” living in the Philippines, India, England, and France, before moving to the US. She has a B.A. from Yale University and an MFA from Indiana University.
Her paintings are heterotopic spaces in which recombinant strategies and nomadic thinking create complex images that investigate the contemporary sublime and states of being. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, and Dallas, and group exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston), Art in General and the Painting Center (New York), and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art. Tileston is the recipient of the Core Fellowship Residency, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts (2004), the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency (2005), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2006), and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2011) and residency (2017).
Images: Jackie Tileston,Carrying the Bloom(detail), 2020; Agnes Pelton, “Messengers,” 1932;