Transformational Art as a Way of Life
with Jane Seaton, Ph.D.
 

WHAT IS ARTLIFE?

ARTLIFE PROCESS

ARTLIFE AS A MANDALA

THE LEARNING JOURNEY

WHO IS JANE SEATON TEACHING SCHEDULE SOUNDS TRUE TAPES  
What it means to call art a behavior...demands a quite new way of thinking about the subject.

Ellen Dissanayake, in "What is Art For?"
So Artlife Process can look like...

Any activity or process that engages our creative selves, whether it be making an interesting meal, designing a web site, painting a picture, thinking up a unique way to propose marriage, or getting a sick child to eat chicken broth. It doesn¹t matter if we "know" we are "being creative" at the time or not, Artlife process is happening constantly. We can enjoy it and allow it to enrich our lives

  • Active and creative reflection on the substance of our daily lives ­ interweaving of liked and disliked parts so we can learn from both, together
  • Ongoing projects ­ such as recording the actions of a part of our lives over a period of time - which may or may not result in tangible end-products. Also projects that include making "art" objects ­ whatever helps us to resonate with our Artlife dimension, so that we can connect with an underlying meaningfulness in it all
  • Making rituals in and of and for ordinary life, partly to engage with it more playfully, also to have more choices about how we shape it
  • Creating transformative rituals and ceremonies, for completions, transitions, and initiations into new ways of being
  • Communion with the natural world, re-looking at what it can give us, and teach us, in our contemporary, usually urbanized, lifestyle