Class offered on the meaning of art...

  ART IS TRANSFORMATIVE!

I want to let you know that extraordinary thinker and artist Rikk Morris has moved to the Durango area and is offering an exciting 5-week class on the deep meaning and power of art. I have been working with Rikk to get his ideas on paper and his work is truly profound. This is what we wish we had learned in art school. Rikk will be holding an informal discussion night on Tuesday, October 26, as a precursor to this class. I highly recommend Rikk's discussion night and/or class to anyone involved in the arts.

Warning: this knowledge will change you fundamentally as a person!  Rikk Morris has developed his transformative theory of the essence of art throughout a lifetime of service to art and to children. Come to the GroundUp Arts Collective on Tuesday, October 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. and join in a free preliminary discussion group of this exciting topic. Here are some of the issues that will be brought up in the group:

"What is your role as an artist in society?  How would it feel to have your art be in demand? Do you feel it is essential for you to do your own work? You MUST do your art because it is transformative!! Art is empowering and dangerous: it enables you to become the author of your own being.  It is highly political because it  teaches you to screen information. It is YOUR responsibility to make sense of what you see and hear in the world. This is much bigger than what we've called "art" till now. Art is the crack in the mental curtain between us and the Great Mystery. It leads us to discover the magnificent order behind all things. Art leaves us changed forever, as it reveals dimensions of being heretofore unimagined."

Be there or be square!

Cheers,
Jess Martin