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Waldorf/Steiner Community Courses and Programs


Awakening Arts Correspondence Courses


Awakening Arts Correspondence Course 1 - Creative Arts Intensive​

Spiritual Art Lessons inspired by AnthropoSophia. Instructions include email, mail and telephone consultations.

Visual Arts - Painting, Nature Drawing and Color Theory  course based on Rudolf Steiner’s exercises for artists. Beginners and experienced artists welcome! This course is similar in content to the Awakening Arts Creative Arts Intensive offered in person, but provides  a variation for those living at a distance who would like to work more independently and at their own pace. The course packet includes study materials  on color theory by Goethe, Kandinsky and Rudolf Steiner. The watercolor painting exercises and related questions for contemplation are a beginning in-depth study into the individualities of color and their dynamic relationships. Drawing exercises include charcoal, conte crayon and pastel work with darkness and light, the four elements and the kingdoms of nature. The 24 sessions are meant to last over 6 months, four hours per week, but they can be completed over a longer period of time if necessary.
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Creative Arts Intensive Correspondence Options include:

6 session packet (four hours of painting, study or drawing per session, including email and/or telephone consultations for comments and explanations.) Tuition is non-refundable and non-exchangeable payable at the start of the course. Six session packets must be purchased in sequential order. In the case of the need to suspend the course of study for some important reason, study may be postponed to a later agreed upon date.

24 session packet (four hours of painting, study or drawing per session, including email and/or telephone consultations for comments and explanations.) Tuition is non-refundable and non-exchangeable payable at the start of the course. In the case of the need to suspend the course of study for some important reason, study may be postponed to a later agreed upon date.
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Awakening Arts Correspondence Course 2 - Waldorf Painting with Young Children​

Waldorf-Inspired  Painting  for  Young Children / Curriculum Course for Homeschooling  Parents
Part 1-  Ages 5- 9 years / Part 2 - Ages  9 through 14

6 Session Packet. 24 hours of exercises and study work, including phone consulting. Tuition is payable in advance and non-refundable. Packets of 6 lessons are non-exchangeable. Lessons must be purchased in order and follow sequentially.

24 Session Packet. 96 hours of exercises and study work, includes phone consulting. Tuition is payable in advance and non-refundable. Packets of 24 lessons are non-exchangeable. Lessons must be purchased in order and follow sequentially.

Part I - Painting with Young Children Ages 5-9 Years. 96 hours of  painting exercises and study work in total, includes phone consulting of 4 half-hour sessions per 6 lessons, if needed. Groups of six lessons involve 24 hours of exercises and study work each. Study articles enclosed by Dr. Caroline von Heydebrand, one of the original Waldorf Teachers who learned from Rudolf  Steiner. Lessons 1-6: Painting for Children 5-7 years old -- Color sensitivity exercises for the parent -  Children’s exercises with one two and three colors Individual, Two color and three color combination exercises based on Goethe’s theory of color and Steiner’s inspirations on the soul consciousness of the child. Children paint with three main colors to start. Single exercises and colors meeting, playing, dancing on the page without coming to motif or form yet. Lessons 7-12: First Grade Exercises (6-7 years old) -- Colors playing, dancing, and color combining in many ways -- Color Stories -- Fairy Tale Color Moods. Lessons 13-18: Second Grade Exercises (7-8 years old) -- Expanded use of colors, legends, Saints -- how to work with the color in connection with stories -- color harmonizing exercises -- soul moods of color -- complementary exercises. Lessons 19-24: Third Grade Exercises (8-9 years old) -- Old Testament Genesis themes in color -- Music and color -- Nature moods -- Temperament and four element moods.

Part II - Painting with Children  Ages 9-14. 96 hours of  painting exercises and study work in total, includes phone consulting of 4 half-hour sessions per 6 lessons, if needed. Groups of six lessons involve 24 hours of exercises and study work. Lessons 1-6: Waldorf Fourth Grade Painting Curriculum. Lessons 7-12:  Waldorf Fifth Grade Painting Curriculum. Lessons 13-18: Waldorf Sixth Grade Painting Curriculum. Lessons 18-24: Waldorf 7th and 8th grade Painting Curriculum.
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Awakening Arts Correspondence Courses instructor, Carla Mattioli, M.A. is an Interfaith Minister, artist, art therapist,  yoga teacher and healer of the heart who devotes her life to celebrating the power of the arts as a living, awakening source of Soul healing and Spiritual renewal. Therapeutic arts help us enormously in times of illness, loss and transition as we move through challenges toward self-realization and release old patterns that no longer serve us. We are sustained with wisdom and spiritual guidance that stream toward us through the practice of the arts. As the I Ching, The Chinese Book of Changes says, "creativity comes from awakening and directing our higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the universe and are appointed by heaven."

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