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Applications are OPEN NOW for serious and experienced painters.Deadline to apply: Friday, January 16th, 2026
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The expressive language of painting has uniquely traced the human soul’s evolution of consciousness for over 30,000 years. Sacred art traditions throughout the ages have celebrated the visionary realms, exploring Heaven Hell and the multiverse inbetween. Each individual artist continues the evolving wave of visual culture. Today, the internet provides access to the entire history of the human imagination through the iconography of past civilizations. Geometric and organic pattern and ornament, spectral color, light and shadow, texture, focus, symbolism and naturalism offer abundant creative means for the interpreter and illuminator of mystical and transcendental domains. Skilled painters, intimate with expanded states of awareness, translate these subtle archetypal dimensions to facilitate the realization of divine spirit.
This workshop will explore the importance of intention, process, subject matter, and the historic context of visionary painting in an open studio environment that supports independent thinking and artistic maturity. Building on existing painting skills, the Greys will support participants in celebrating their uniqueness, developing personal themes. Both conceptual and technical skills will be addressed in pursuit of defining and communicating the artist's intention.
WHAT TO EXPECT
PORTFOLIO REVIEW
The 2026 CoSM 8-Day Visionary Painting Intensive with Alex Grey & Allyson Grey offers an immersive forum for serious and experienced painters.
An application with samples of your work will be required for the selection process of participants in the Visionary Painting Intensive.
This application requests candidates to include three examples of their best paintings.
This application for the Visionary Painting Intensive requests access to the artist's social media and contact information, as well as a brief artist statement of no more than 250 words.
Because an artist statement and presentation is essential to artists ready to share their work, your statement will be part of this workshop. Guides on writing an artist statement are abundant on the internet.
Here is one that we recommend: Article Posted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Painters as well as artists dedicated to other mediums are encouraged to also apply to the Visionary Art Intensive, an idea generating sketch workshop for serious and experienced artists who work in any medium. July 12th - 18th, 2026.
Look for applications to the Visionary Art Intensive (VAI), launching in early November, 2025.
PAINTING INTENSIVE
During this eight-day Master Class, participants will work on two paintings, with the intention to make substantial progress on both works.
One painting will be a self-portrait (the widest definition) and the second work will be an original painting revealing your personal aesthetic style and conceptual evolution.
Class members should join the workshop prepared with concept sketches.
Techniques, elements of design and composition, color study and the development of expressive content will be discussed daily. One-on-one conversations about the work of each participant, as well as group discussion about individual works will both be scheduled and part of the class flow.
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
The Grey House, CoSM’s Visionary Victorian guest house, offers accommodations for all participants. Works of art by Alex Grey, Allyson Grey and accomplished artists of the international Visionary Art community are featured throughout guest rooms and common spaces of Grey House.
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COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, 51 Deer Hill Rd, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590-3934, United States
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