Art as a Path of Schooling for the Soul
12 February,2025 - 30 November,2026
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An online training in art as a spiritual practice
for the ordering & strengthening of the soul
What is it about?
This two-year part-time online training offers a unique approach to learning painting and drawing, where artistic practice becomes a schooling process for the soul.
The course promotes a study of spiritual science through an artistic practice, where the study is the artistic exercise and the texts are supplementary to these exercises.
Anthroposophy should not just be taken in as concepts or theories, which has a hardening effect on the soul, but be experienced by whole human being. Rudolf Steiner is quite emphatic about this: without the artistic element, Steiner tells us, Anthroposophy cannot go into the future, for it will go ‘short of breath’ and become nothing but a photography of the living force it should be.
This is a path of inner work through creative practice.
Delivery mode
A combination of pre-recorded technical videos, mini-lectures, fortnightly Zoom meetings, individual mentoring, self-directed home study and workshop intensives.
Participants can also proceed at their own pace with the videos, but still benefit from professional guidance and sharing with an international artistic community of like-minded souls.
The course package is a combination of:
- six courses (three a year over two years)
- eight lecture webinars (over two years)
- four workshop intensives (two a year)
- an individual project (can be done in conjunction with a course or workshop)
- two individual consultations
- self-directed artistic work
Who is the schooling course for?
- Students of Anthroposophy interested in an creative and experiential path to inner work, meditation and understanding Spiritual Science.
- Artists trained at conventional art schools who wish to learn about the anthroposophic approach to art.
- Waldorf (Steiner) teachers and therapists who wish to extend their professional practice by deepening their understanding of the anthroposophic impulse in art.
When does it start?
Introductory lecture: 12 February 2025
Term 1: 15 February-10 May 2025
Term 2: 1 June-20 August 2025
Term 3: 5 September-30 November 2025
Enrolments are accepted at any time.
Duration of the course: Total of 110 hrs contact hours + 400-600 hrs approx self-managed creative work at home over two years.
Cost
$2700 AUD/$1755 USD fee for full package
There are three payment options. Please choose one:
- $2500 AUD/$1625 USD full schooling if paid in advance by 16 February 2025
- $1350 AUD/$880 USD a year
- $470 AUD/$310 USD three payments a year
Fee includes courses, lectures, workshops, individual consultations, video/handout resources and certification.
A Diploma is awarded at the completion of the course, providing all requirements are fulfilled.
Professional Development certificates are also available for individual courses.
Enrolments
You will be sent the course outline with payment options and a list of suggested readings and materials after enrolment.
For more information
Read more about the individual course options or contact Fiona Campbell
About Painted Space Studio
Painted Space Studio is led by Dr Fiona Campbell, who brings her extensive research and training in the artistic, therapeutic, and pedagogical aspects of the anthroposophic approach to art to all courses. She believes in artistic practice being an holistic practice that engages the human being in our totality as physical, psychical and spiritual.
Fiona trained in visual arts and artistic therapy at Tobias School of Art. She has three research-based degrees, including a PhD in creative thinking and a Diploma in Waldorf Education from Emerson College, England. She has been a professional artist since 1992, a member of the Anthroposophical Society since 1978 and the School of Spiritual Science since 1992.
THIS SCHOOLING COURSE IS AN INITIATIVE OF THE VISUAL ARTS SECTION
In an inartistic atmosphere, (Anthroposophy) goes short of breath; only in an artistic element can it breathe freely. Rightly understood, it will lead over to the genuinely artistic without losing any of its cognitional character
Rudolf Steiner
Lecture III’, The Arts and their Mission,
2 June 1923, Dornach, CW276
Feature image: Black Study I, courtesy of Fiona Campbell