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ABOUT THE PROGRAMVisionary artists Alex Grey & Allyson Grey teach painting and drawing from the wellspring of divine imagination. In this workshop, artists at any level of experience create from the sacred ground and the mystic eye.
Alex & Allyson led The Visionary Art Intensive for 28 years at Omega Institute. Now, in the summer of 2025, the Visionary Art Intensive is being offered at CoSM’s newly renovated teaching space, the Art Lab.
Throughout the seven-day workshop, all participants will have the opportunity to share sketches and works in progress emerging from daily vision practices and access funnels to vision-manifestation.
Through illustrated talks, vision practices, and group interaction, we empower the process of bringing our heart’s iconography to outer form and examine the worldwide visionary art movement.
Using guided imagery, meditation, shamanic ascent, and vision practice to envision body & soul, we open the doors of the imagination to the theater of revelation. Utilizing basic materials such as graphite, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylics, we commit mental pictures to paper and discuss the aesthetic dimension of our mystical experiences.
Explore art as a spiritual path and art as a career. Address technical concerns and define creative goals.
WHAT TO EXPECT
PORTFOLIO REVIEW
The 2025 CoSM 7-Day Visionary ART Intensive with Alex Grey & Allyson Grey offers an immersive program for artists of all levels.
Limited space is available—an application with samples of your work will be required for the selection process of participants in the Visionary Art Intensive.
Envision seven days of full immersion into the passion that feeds your soul. Gift yourself by making space in your life for a retreat from ordinary responsibilities. Fully commit to your passion and realize artistic visions along with mystic artists across the globe.
Alex & Allyson will spend part of each day offering feedback on student works. Effective feedback fuels a culture of creative thinking. An artful critique highlights the wisdom of masters and peers. Hearing discussions about the work of other artists, educates us in solving our own creative challenges.
Daily Focus Will Explore:
Visionary Empowerment
Self-portrait
Shamanic Journey
The Light-Body
World Spirit
Discussion will address archetypes and the aesthetic dimension experienced in expanded consciousness. Illustrated talks, vision practices, and group interactions with practices that empower the conversion of inner worlds into outer form. Daily, there will be guided imagery, practices and meditations for opening the third eye. Daily presentations to saturate the mind with creative ideas, will include "What is Visionary Art?", a journey through a worldwide historical movement that began at the beginning of recorded time.
YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Alex Grey & Allyson Grey
Alex Grey, world-renowned artist, poet, and author, is best loved for his paintings which portray multiple dimensions of reality, interweaving biological anatomy with psychic and spiritual energies. His books, Sacred Mirrors, The Mission of Art, Transfigurations, and Art Psalms, trace the development of his work and mystical experiences that shaped his spiritual artistic life. Alex’s most recent monograph, Net of Being, addresses how his art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness. alexgrey.com
Allyson Grey is an artist whose paintings have been exhibited and sold internationally. Co-founder of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Grey is a community leader with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University. She has edited and co-authored over a dozen books and journals, lectured widely, and has been an educator and muse to artists for over 30 years. The symbol system in her paintings represent an essentialized world-view comprised of chaos, order and secret writing. Allyson is the wife and partner of internationally renowned artist, Alex Grey, and the mother of accomplished film actress, Zena Grey. allysongrey.com
Together, the Grey’s co-founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a spiritual creative retreat center in the Hudson Valley of New York. On the forefront of a movement in which painters join musicians on stage, the Grey’s painted together live before tens of thousands of folks at New York Broadway theaters, at sold-out festivals and arenas in dozens of international cities across five continents. As long-time advocates of “cognitive liberty,” a growing international “sacramental culture” has embraced the Grey’s as important mapmakers and spokespersons for the visionary realm. The Grey’s, with a dedicated and evolving team, have created CoSM, an interspiritual Art Church and Entheon, a Visionary Art sanctuary at CoSM. cosm.org
CoSM WORKSHOP SETTING
Class sessions will take place in the newly renovated MAGI Art Lab.
Grey House, CoSM's Visionary Victorian guest house, provides accommodations for all participants.
Residing onsite together is a part of this immersively creative week, providing maximum interactivity, immersion & enrichment.
Accommodations in Grey House are offered in a variety of economies and are additional to the workshop fee.
ACCOMMODATIONS
There are ten guest rooms available in Grey House, CoSM’s Visionary Victorian guest facility.
Private rooms with private or shared bathrooms, Queen or King beds.
Shared dorm style rooms with single or queen beds — femme only and coed dorm options available.
The guest house features works of art by Alex Grey and Allyson and accomplished artists of the international Visionary Art community.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, 51 Deer Hill Rd, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590-3934, United States,Wappingers Falls, New York
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