Imprensiva - Colorful Cosmos

What is your relationship to your sense of place in the cosmos? How do you bring lessons directly from the cosmos into your creative space? What is the story you tell about being a co-creator here?

Join us for an in depth exploration in Imprensiva Society with our yearlong study group Colorful Cosmos. We are going into our fifth year of Imprensiva Society and this year we started featuring a curriculum designed for conscious artists in OUR community.

Your hosts, Jonathan and Shiloh Sophia McCloud are proud to invite you to join our community for the sciences and mysteries of the Colorful Cosmos!

Colorful Cosmos is a yearlong study guided by our Musea University faculty member Astronomer and Artist instructor Andrew Johnstone, to imagine your own reality as an artist from Quarks to Quasars including:

Naked Eye Astronomy and the Starmap in Our Minds
The Visible Spectrum of Light and the Color Wheel in Painting
Prehistoric Cave Art and the Mysteries of the Heart
A call to Conscious Evolution through remembering the Past
The Creation of a Future that Matters to all of us
Creation of a professional artist studio
Stretching your own canvas
Mixing your own pigment to create your own paint!
Exploration of new mediums like waxes and gels
Honing your artistic skills with perspective, proportion, and purpose
Set yourself up to paint anywhere with Plein Air Painting techniques

Each monthly session includes Teaching + Conversation + Intentional Creativity + Community.

"Space-time from a breath of air. Physics tells us that matter and energy cannot be destroyed and only redispersed as different matter and energy within a connected universe of space-time. We are only borrowing the atoms that make us and eventually we are recycled back into the universe. Rather than this being a brief and temporary state one must think of it as a process within eternity…we live forever. The breath of a little girl is physically connected to the rest of the universe and the stars and galaxies are physically connected to the breath of the little girl.”
~Andrew Johnstone

Explore your relationship to your Place in the Cosmos

How does your relationship to your place in space impact the way you experience life on earth?

What is the story you tell about being here?

We will explore our relationship to our sense of place in the cosmos, how artists can work with the colors created by the universe, and what story did our ancestors leave for us to discover and why.

We want every Intentional Creativity® Foundation community member, University student, and Guild graduate to know these foundational elements of creation and what they mean for the co-creative person.

“Our relationship with creation influences the stories we tell and the art that we make. Our lineage of teachings has always had an emphasis on the artist’s relationship with creation.” ~ Shiloh Sophia

Curriculum Overview

FIRST QUARTER SESSION:
STARLIGHT STORIES AND SPIN + ART STUDIO ESSENTIALS

February 21: 12-1:30pm

Naked Eye Astronomy Introduction: Birth of Light, exploding stars and red iron oxide on Earth and in our blood. What story will you tell about your place within creation?

Setting up your space: Layout of a studio, studio craft, easels, lighting (natural and artificial) and managing the mess.

March 20: 10-11:30am

Connecting the Dots film screening for community. Our two hour film on the Lascaux Cave - what is hidden in the ‘hall of bulls’ animals in this 17,000 year old cave painting in France? What does it have to do with who we are as humans today? What story were they telling us?

Supports and surfaces: Canvas, linen, panel, alternative supports, stretchers, stretching your canvas, gesso, priming, and relining.

March 21: 10-11:30am
Cura Council Equinox Ceremony with Shiloh Sophia

April 17: 12-1:30pm

Star Map in my Mind: Learn to understand the motion of the night sky and the stars, Moon and planets and their primary relationship and location. Learn to use an app to navigate the night sky. Where are we in spacetime and what does it have to do with being an artist?

Pigments and paints: History of color, painting from the periodic table, basic chemistry of paint. (Oil, alkyd, water miscible oil, acrylic, gouache, watercolor, casein)and the pallet.

May 1: 10-11:30am

Cura Council Ceremony with Shiloh Sophia

May 15: 10-11:30am

The Pillars of Creation + The vortical motion of planets and the nature of their primordial creation. Their relationship to elements and the earth and the moon’s relationship to earth.

Dry media: Charcoal, chalk, conte, graphite pencil, colored pencil, pastel. …yes you need a sketchbook and need to draw EVERYDAY.

SECOND QUARTER SESSION:
COLOR CREATIONS AND VIBRATIONS + PIGMENTS, MEDIUMS & TECHNIQUES

June 19: 12-1:30pm
(Shiloh's birthday) Our Milky Way, Color and Hubble: What we are learning from the James Webb telescope, the heat signature, and spectra of elements (lead into Color) + Andrew’s telescope and how a telescope works, and an overview of the recent April 8th total solar eclipse.

Glazes, mediums, scumbles and varnishes: Thinking outside the tube. Optical effects of glaze, waxes and gels.

June 21: 10-11:30am

Cura Council Equinox Ceremony with Shiloh Sophia

July 17: 10-11:30am

Mixing Demo + intro and limitations of the Color Wheel for Artists.

Brushes and brushwork: Types of brush and construction. Handling as a tool of application. Painting knives, bags, sponges and fingers.

August 1: 10-11:30am

Cura Council Ceremony with Shiloh Sophia

August 21: 12-1:30pm
The Visible Spectrum of Light Introduction from Infrared to Ultra-Violet. What is your relationship to color in your life and in your art?

Going Deep - 3D and perspective: Seeing the world through a plane of perception. Rules of perspective. One and two point perspective.

September 18: 10-11:30am

Light, Color and Heat - Exploring the frequency of color, The 42 Degrees of the Prism, how it works and why, and creating alignment in your life and work.

Composition: Planning your paintings. Rule of Thirds, the golden mean and the golden triangle, Balance and weight.

September 23: 10-11:30am

Cura Council Equinox Ceremony and Conscious Evolution with Shiloh Sophia

October 16: 12-1:30pm

Color in Energy and Color in Earth Matter - How is it different and why? Reclaiming the meaning of color in our lives. Exploring vibration and frequency and relationship to our physical bodies (lead by Shiloh Sophia)

Proportions and anatomy (body): The “gesture”. The incredible machine. Keeping things in scale and balance.

THIRD QUARTER SESSION:
ANCESTORS, EVOLUTION AND THE FUTURE

November 1: 10-11:30am

Cura Council Ceremony and Conscious Evolution with Shiloh Sophia

November 20: 10-11:30am

Cave Art and the Mysteries of the Heart - What are we learning from our early ancestors and what does it mean for us today? What record will we leave?

Painting/Drawing Hands and feet: The scary bits of humans.

December 19: 12-1:30pm

The journey of Evolution - Where are we now and can we consciously evolve? And how. Explore the 32 Symbols of Ice Age Europe and what you would include.

Proportions and anatomy: Planes of the head. Features and mass. Making “it” look like “them” and common mistakes.

December 21: 10-11:30am

Cura Council Solstice Ceremony

January 16: 12-1:30pm

Humanity Going forward and our part in the path of the Future

One the Road: Plein air! Why go outside? Traveling, what to take and how to set up in the field and essentials of landscape painting.

February 20: 10-11:30am

Completing Story Circle

Breaking your world down into light and dark and broad and simple shapes and the negative space.

Sumaiyah Wysdom is the MUSEA Intentional Creativity® Foundation's Executive Director, an Intentional Creativity Educator, Coach, and Guide, and an active Guild Member. She has over 30 years of experience in the field of information technology and uses her expertise in this area to support the organization and MUSEA community. Sumaiyah is the Founder, Curator, and Resident Artist of Wysdom Arts Gallery & Atelier in Baltimore, Maryland where she offers Intentional Creativity® programs, workshops, and courses to the community in which she was raised.

Sumaiyah is the Colorful Cosmos Director and your source for tech support. She can be reached via email at sumaiyah.yates@musea.org.

Active Society Level Members since 2021, Cassandra & Drew, love teaching Intentional Creativity to any beloved “star spores” that are called to their circles. They also collaborate together on their intentional photography project “Mountain Fresh Trades” connecting people to the other than human world wherever they are. Cassandra is a recent Color of Woman 2023 Graduate, an active Guild Member, a professional graphic designer, and artist. Drew is certified in Reiki Levels 1 & 2, is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Energy Worker, and has regularly practiced Intentional Creativity since he and Cassandra found the innovative modality in 2021.

Cassandra and Drew are the hosts of the Colorful Cosmos Intentional Creativity Process. They can be reached at cassandra.lee@musea.org.

“Enrolling as Society Level Members and entering the Imprensiva Salon was the FIRST thing Drew and I did within MUSEA! The priceless lessons we have received from Jonathan, Shiloh, and Andrew in Imprensiva Salons inform how we act, create, and live each day.

If you haven't met me around here before, I am Cassandra Lee, 2023 Color of Woman graduate and Certified Intentional Creativity teacher and active Guild Member. My fiance and co-teacher, Drew, is certified in Reiki Levels 1 & 2, is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Energy Worker, and has been a remote field biologist for years. Drew and I are so excited to be Zoom hosts and bring Intentional Creativity processes to you as we cruise through the Colorful Cosmos with our beautiful star spore community!

Before we found Intentional Creativity, bridging the gap between art, science, and soul seemed to be out of this world but yet it also seemed so inherently natural at the same time. We didn’t fully make this bridge until we found Imprensiva Salons and this unique creative community. We are still finding so much more to learn within the classrooms of MUSEA everyday. We hope to journey with you in the Colorful Cosmos classroom this year!” ~ Cassandra Lee

What is your relationship to your sense of place in the cosmos? Join us for an indepth exploration of this inquiry.