Emerson Visual Arts

Foundation Year in Anthroposophy through the Visual Arts.

September - June

This course is integrated in the Visual Arts year. It is a course for those who feel the need to study and discover anthroposophy through the door of creativity and the arts. Students participate in the Visual Arts programme and additionally take part in study groups, lectures, tutorials.

The relationship of artistic work and study creates a lively environment, where anthroposophy can be met in a free and individual way.

Artistic activity arises out of our feelings and heart forces. Rudolf Steiner describes Anthroposophy as a path of knowledge, which arises out of these same sources:

“Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. It arises in the human being as a need of the heart, of the life of feeling; and it can be justified only in as much as it can satisfy this inner need.”

The course can serve as:

A year of self-discovery and development, in the light of anthroposophy and the arts.

A foundation year for Waldorf teacher trainings or other professional trainings.

A time for healing from the stress of modern life and for building up a secure, inner creative ground.

A year to discover the creative forces in nature through art.