Conference for Global Transformation
Artists for Global Transformation
Our art exhibit this year can be viewed on YouTube. Embedded in the name of each work of art listed below is a link to each YouTube video.
Click here for Collaborative Video links, presenters, and summaries to be found in the section below this list of Artists’ Videos.
Social Commons: The memory you forgot
Public Persona: Who do they think I am?
Measures: The art of comparison
Living as a Created Self: Carving out new pathways for life
Discourses: The building blocks of meaning
Contribution: Why busy people listen|
Artist & Title |
Summary |
| Andrea DiCarlo – Sky: A Path to Being
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The sky inspires me – an everchanging world of possibilities and large vistas.There is no picture already out there to be painted, other than my word to discover and create. Once I’ve committed the brush to paper, I ongoingly deal with being my word freely. I allow others to contribute. I am open, not knowing, engaging in what’s so, not how it should be. My commitment to simplicity, color, and the lightness of being guides me. |
| Andy Monks – Journey Stick
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A journey stick is a traditional symbolic object used in various cultures to record and commemorate an individual’s journey or experience. By employing this ancient tradition, I pay homage to the enduring spirit of my mother Jeanni and father Nev and the generations before them. A way to never forget and a dance with my word to love and cherish ancestors. This artwork transcends the boundaries of time and asks us to remember. |
| Bruce Torquil Campbell – A Musical Discourse
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This video combines images from a hike I did in the forests of Scotland with me playing my own composition on the piano. It is an example of my work as an artist in which I allow myself to wander, follow paths, pause, observe, wonder, follow through, intuit, improvise, participate, focus, dream, imagine, play, and dance with the world out here. |
| Cynthia Cooper – Take Pictures
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I love people and, as a professional photographer, my passion is portraiture. For the last two decades, I have been photographing my community and particularly fellow Landmark graduates. The video I am submitting is called A Social Commons of Transformation. It is a collection of 100-150 images of leaders and graduates. These are the faces of those who step into our work, committed to living a life in a dance with word. |
| Gary Bryson – The Smoking Gun
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This artwork was created for the 2024 Conference for Global Transformation as a social commentary on the practice of burning books deemed as threatening to the social fabric of the time. While books are inanimate objects void of heart and soul they contain the potency of life, bringing emotion to the reader. A book is a smoking gun in the hands of the well-read. Who knows who the target might be? |
| Jeannette Lazet – This Way, That Way, Every Which Way
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The symbolism and magic of the kaleidoscope quilting design inspired and reflected on me, the possibility of self-expression, being in a dance with word. Using six identical triangular sections of the same piece of fabric, a new pattern emerges when tessellated. For me, this expresses and symbolises the magic of what it is to dance with word, creating life from my commitments, in being. |
| Lynnie Sterba – Dance With Me
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Art expressed from being, much like word expressed from being, lights up my created self, where what emerges is what I was brought out in the world to do — express my vision through art. All of the paintings that I submitted were a breakthrough in letting go and trusting my vision would become visible. The paintings materialized from a dance with paint and brush on canvas, each one occurring naturally in its creation. |
| Zoey Goetsch – The Memory Project
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I was inspired in 2020 when people became caged, while animals had free roam of the Earth. There was an abundance of resources in time, space and oxygen. Men gave their word to stay indoors, while skies became more blue, and endangered whales came out to play and mate next to me, as I kayaked. This work encompasses the memory of bliss in nature, and regular meditative practice of being with clouds, in quiet splendor. |
Collaborative Videos
Social Commons: The memory you forgot Public Persona: Who do they think I am? Measures: The art of comparison Living as a Created Self: Carving out new pathways for life Discourses: The building blocks of meaning Contribution: Why busy people listen|
Artists & Title |
Summary |
| Abby Lederman, Dave Hoon, Don Roden, Felicia Morris, and Lori Watkins – My Word is My Art
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The five of us met in the 2023 Wisdom Unlimited for the Arts course, some as participants and some as Wisdom Academy members. We combined our talents—Abby Lederman as a writer/poet/grandmother, Lori Watkins as a videographer, Dave Hoon as a musician, Don Roden as a wood turner/wood artist and Felicia Morris as a nature photographer/painter/calligrapher—to celebrate art as the expression of our collective word that there be truth, beauty, and goodness in the world. |
| Collaborative Soup: Marc Malamud, David Lazaroff, Deirdre Donovan, Diana Page Jordan, Robyn Maitland, and Sean Potter – Love Remains
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Our commitment is that people open up and talk about death. When we lose people, through death or departure, we stand in the truth that love remains. Our commitment is also that music and art make a difference in the world. This year, our song is about the conversation around death; we find empowerment in that conversation. We are our ancestors. We are their love remains. We are committed to contributing to everyone and that this song is heard. We are dancing with the transformation of human beings; that love remains beyond death and dying, with self-expression and music as the vehicle. |
| Marty Wessler, Andrea Fono, Lori Watkins, and Ritu Raj – Beyond Four Corners
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In the world of dance, theater, and music, it is customary for artists to collaborate, yet in fine arts, the idea that an artist would paint over another’s painting is an unspoken “no-no.” What could happen if we gave that up? What was discovered is: There is no “wrong” in abstraction; it is always another abstraction. Life does not present as a “blank canvas;” there is always something already there. Finally, inside of relating and relationship, anything is possible, and new worlds emerge. This is a reflection of our journey. |