At Conspire, we guide you through an art making process that calms the nervous system, opens the mind, and connects you to yourself.
Our creative process follows four basic steps
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We allow time for our nervous systems to arrive and settle in the space, grounding together.
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We invite in a topic, an inspiration, a challenge or a question, sharing and listening with a partner or small group.
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We bring what was stirred by those discussions into non-conversational art making, with an invitation to follow pleasure.
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We witness what we’ve created and invite it to speak back to us, sharing if desired.
“The fact is I am far more likely to do good in the world in the post-artmaking state than in any other.”
— Pat B. Allen, Art is a Spiritual Practice
Conspire can be translated as breathe together.
To those who have conspired with us, we give thanks.
The creative inquiry process comes to us through Rabbi Adina Allen and the Jewish Studio Project and through Pat B. Allen.
Rabbi Allen created the Jewish Studio Process as a methodology for bringing traditional Jewish wisdom traditions out of a purely intellectual domain and into a place that allows for more spacious, embodied, and intuitive modes of knowing.
Allen draws on the Open Studio Process, developed by Pat B. Allen in the 1990s as a response to the diagnostic model of art therapy, revolutionizing art therapy by putting the power of meaning-making into the hands of the art-maker.