At the Art Séance, the artist is a medium. The spirit world is the muse…
Originally, a séance was ‘a sitting’ among friends, a social gathering that didn’t revolve around ghosts until the Spiritualist movement of the 19th century. Spiritualism is the study of the unseen, and around the turn of the century, its practices attracted mystics, scholars, artists, and others who wanted to engage in spirit communication through mediumship. For some people, Spiritualism was a philosophy; for others, it was a sacred practice.
The spirit world has long been a muse for creative souls, including the poet William Butler Yeats and Tarot artist Pamela Coleman Smith. The writer Sylvia Plath used Ouija to inspire her pen, while the mystic William Blake recorded his clairvoyant visions via automatic drawing rituals. In Hilma af Klint’s art collective, the Five, five women infused their creative process with a range of Spiritualist methods, which inspired over 100 finished paintings.
For Hilma and the Five, art-making was ritualistic, a ritual to map the unseen.
Starting on August 14th, join Pointy Hat Press co-founders Caitlyn Barone and Kristin Lisenby for a three-week experiment and workshop in intuitive art-making and creative mediumship. Together, participants will gather around the virtual candle for a collective psychic experiment using art as a doorway into the creative unconscious.
This series blends artistic process, occult philosophy, and generative conversation and prompts to inspire your creative life. Each class invites artists of all levels to divine with their unconscious material through collective and spontaneous art-making methods, and because self-expression is for everyone, no experience is needed- just a blank page, a curious heart, and a desire to venture beyond the physical veil.
Friday, August 14th, 6 pm EST: Art-Making is Mediumship: Hilma af Klint & the Five
Friday, August 21st, 6 pm EST: The Art Séance: Channeling the Creative Spirit
Friday August 28th, 6 pm EST: Creative Mediumship: Mapping the Unseen
A single payment of $222
The cost of $222 for the three-week program includes three 90-minute classes, three downloadable PDFs with informational articles and prompts, and a Slack Community & Coven to connect with Kristin, Caitlyn, and other participants of The Creative Occult.
We prioritize making our offerings accessible. If you require assistance, please send us a message explaining your situation, and we will work together to find a solution. Payment plans are available. Because of the nature of this offering, all sales are final.
No! This program is intended to support any schedule. Workshops can be listened to via recording. And you can tune into these workshops from any place as long as you have internet.
The Slack Channel will end with the program (2 weeks after closing), however, the prompts, exercises, and PDFs from workshops are yours to keep forever.
Just a love of art, magic, and mystery.
At the Art Séance, the artist is a medium. The spirit world is the muse…
Originally, a séance was ‘a sitting’ among friends, a social gathering that didn’t revolve around ghosts until the Spiritualist movement of the 19th century. Spiritualism is the study of the unseen, and around the turn of the century, its practices attracted mystics, scholars, artists, and others who wanted to engage in spirit communication through mediumship. For some people, Spiritualism was a philosophy; for others, it was a sacred practice.
The spirit world has long been a muse for creative souls, including the poet William Butler Yeats and Tarot artist Pamela Coleman Smith. The writer Sylvia Plath used Ouija to inspire her pen, while the mystic William Blake recorded his clairvoyant visions via automatic drawing rituals. In Hilma af Klint’s art collective, the Five, five women infused their creative process with a range of Spiritualist methods, which inspired over 100 finished paintings.
For Hilma and the Five, art-making was ritualistic, a ritual to map the unseen.
Starting on August 14th, join Pointy Hat Press co-founders Caitlyn Barone and Kristin Lisenby for a three-week experiment and workshop in intuitive art-making and creative mediumship. Together, participants will gather around the virtual candle for a collective psychic experiment using art as a doorway into the creative unconscious.
This series blends artistic process, occult philosophy, and generative conversation and prompts to inspire your creative life. Each class invites artists of all levels to divine with their unconscious material through collective and spontaneous art-making methods, and because self-expression is for everyone, no experience is needed- just a blank page, a curious heart, and a desire to venture beyond the physical veil.
Friday, August 14th, 6 pm EST: Art-Making is Mediumship: Hilma af Klint & the Five
Friday, August 21st, 6 pm EST: The Art Séance: Channeling the Creative Spirit
Friday August 28th, 6 pm EST: Creative Mediumship: Mapping the Unseen
A single payment of $222
The cost of $222 for the three-week program includes three 90-minute classes, three downloadable PDFs with informational articles and prompts, and a Slack Community & Coven to connect with Kristin, Caitlyn, and other participants of The Creative Occult.
We prioritize making our offerings accessible. If you require assistance, please send us a message explaining your situation, and we will work together to find a solution. Payment plans are available. Because of the nature of this offering, all sales are final.
No! This program is intended to support any schedule. Workshops can be listened to via recording. And you can tune into these workshops from any place as long as you have internet.
The Slack Channel will end with the program (2 weeks after closing), however, the prompts, exercises, and PDFs from workshops are yours to keep forever.
Just a love of art, magic, and mystery.
