Free Columbia

We are 56% of the way to our crowd funding goal. you can help us get all the way:https://charity.gofundme.com//coming-home-/freecolumbiainc We will turn upside down for you ! https://youtu.be/Tkkhcw4NFVc

Call and Response - we need your help with our crowd funding ! https://charity.gofundme.com//coming-home-/freecolumbiainc

https://youtu.be/SCAZMRdGzwc Here is a little stop motion to celebrate our crowd funding !

Here is an art project for you so you can participate in the excitement of our crowd funding: Start with photos of nature in an area of the world, you can print them out or use magazine photos. Make a collage of a human figure using these images and textures from nature. Post them on our facebook page and/or #growingaccessibleeducation https://charity.gofundme.com//coming-home-/freecolumbiainc

The first $1000 of $15,000 has come in ! Thank you everyone who has donated so far! here is a cartwheel to express our enthusiasm https://charity.gofundme.com//coming-home-/freecolumbiainc

Some impressions from recent work with Faye Shapiro~ Thank you Faye!

Please help spread the word, we are accepting applications for the 2021-22 cohort of the M.C. Richards Program!

2021 calendars poems by Hafiz, paintings by Laura Summer -on sale now! 15% off These paintings were created from August 2019 through July 2020. At the beginning of each month I chose a poem of Hafiz from The Gift by Daniel Ladinsky that spoke to me about the feeling of that month. Then during the month I contemplated the poem and painted the painting. Some paintings revealed unexpected images and colors. It was an eventful year as the world entered into extreme experiences ...and questions of polarity, fear, silence, justice and community. I am very grateful for having started this work not knowing where it would take me and having to trust the flow of creative force. May these poems accompany you through 2021 and teach you the truths that are so present in the work of the Persian Sufi poet Shams-ud-Dn Muammad, who we know as Hafiz, (c.1320 1389). Calendars can be ordered here https://www.lulu.com//2021-/paperback/product-6w2wv9.html They cost $20 but there is a 15% off sale on right now. If you are local you can contact Laura to see and/or purchase a calendar. 518 672 7302 [email protected]

2021 Calendars Poetry by Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky Paintings by Laura Summer order here https://www.lulu.com//2021-/paperback/product-6w2wv9.html

Here are bigger pictures of the Travel paintings - Angels and Other Winged Beings A small online art dispersal for the holidays. Each painting is on unstretched canvas with a hanging rod so it can be rolled up and easily taken with you. Great for vacations, hospital stays or redecorating in your house. Each painting is offered on a sliding scale of $0-300. All contributions support Free Columbia. All available paintings can be seen on Flickr.https://www.flickr.com/photos/189283931@N04/ If you want to have one contact Laura Summer by email [email protected]

a new way to support art and artists and get original art into people's homes ! https://www.flickr.com/photos/189985884@N06/

OPEN NOW ! First EVER online ART DISPERSAL AGM of the Anthropospohical Society This time we are trying it online ! https://www.f...reecolumbia.org/art-dispersal The online art dispersal for the AGM includes paintings by many artists. Look now! Art will be dispersed on a first come first serve basis! Conference registration is not required. Art is available for Willing The Good conference registrants and the general public--so please forward this info and post the links! 65% of the contributions go to the artists, 20% goes to Free Columbia, 10% to the ASA, 5% administration & coordination

We are so lucky to have Ntangou at Lightforms!

Entering the World of Quality, a new online course with Laura Summer. https://www.freecolumbia.org/visual-arts

This show will only be up until October, don't miss it ! You will learn what an amazing artist MC Richards was.

New Show at Lightforms !

Show opens on August 20 but dispersal can be done ahead by contacting me.