At the Art Séance, the artist is a medium. The spirit world is the muse…
Originally, a séance was ‘a sitting’ among friends, a social gathering that didn’t revolve around ghosts until the Spiritualist movement of the 19th century. Spiritualism is the study of the unseen, and around the turn of the century, its practices attracted mystics, scholars, artists, and others who wanted to engage in spirit communication through mediumship. For some people, Spiritualism was a philosophy; for others, it was a sacred practice.
The spirit world has long been a muse for creative souls, including the poet William Butler Yeats and Tarot artist Pamela Coleman Smith. The writer Sylvia Plath used Ouija to inspire her pen, while the mystic William Blake recorded his clairvoyant visions via automatic drawing rituals. In Hilma af Klint’s art collective, the Five, five women infused their creative process with a range of Spiritualist methods, which inspired over 100 finished paintings.
For Hilma and the Five, art-making was ritualistic, a ritual to map the unseen.
Starting on August 14th, join Pointy Hat Press co-founders Caitlyn Barone and Kristin Lisenby for a three-week experiment and workshop in intuitive art-making and creative mediumship. Together, participants will gather around the virtual candle for a collective psychic experiment using art as a doorway into the creative unconscious.
This series blends artistic process, occult philosophy, and generative conversation and prompts to inspire your creative life. Each class invites artists of all levels to divine with their unconscious material through collective and spontaneous art-making methods, and because self-expression is for everyone, no experience is needed- just a blank page, a curious heart, and a desire to venture beyond the physical veil.
Schedule & Syllabus
Friday, August 14th, 6 pm EST: Art-Making is Mediumship: Hilma af Klint & the Five
Friday, August 21st, 6 pm EST: The Art Séance: Channeling the Creative Spirit
Friday August 28th, 6 pm EST: Creative Mediumship: Mapping the Unseen
Exchange:
A single payment of $222
The cost of $222 for the three-week program includes three 90-minute classes, three downloadable PDFs with informational articles and prompts, and a Slack Community & Coven to connect with Kristin, Caitlyn, and other participants of The Creative Occult.
We prioritize making our offerings accessible. If you require assistance, please send us a message explaining your situation, and we will work together to find a solution. Payment plans are available. Because of the nature of this offering, all sales are final.
FAQ:
DO I NEED TO ATTEND ALL WORKSHOPS LIVE?
No! This program is intended to support any schedule. Workshops can be listened to via recording. And you can tune into these workshops from any place as long as you have internet.
DO I HAVE ACCESS TO ALL MATERIALS FOREVER?
The Slack Channel will end with the program (2 weeks after closing), however, the prompts, exercises, and PDFs from workshops are yours to keep forever.
WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED TO HAVE BEFORE JOINING?
Just a love of art, magic, and mystery.
Pointy Hat Press Presents…
The Art Witch Atelier: Art Witchery Workshop is a five-week study in creative occultism and self-expression in the liminal space of creative process.
Join Caitlyn Barone, an Art Masters Educator, illustrator, and Art Witch, in a 5-week course that explores art making as ritual. This course combines deep artistic study with generative prompts to infuse anyone’s creative process with an inspiring level of occult knowledge and practice.
Self-expression is for everyone. This class allows artists of all levels to explore self-expression, divination, and their unconscious material through historical context and spontaneous art making methods that are merged with occult philosophy and witchcraft.
Schedule & Syllabus
June 9th 6pm EST: Art is a Spell
June 16th 6pm EST: The Creative Descent
June 23rd 6pm EST: Process is Ritual
June 30th 6pm EST:Venerate your Muses: Women in Art & the Occult, led by guest instructor Kristen Lisenby
July 7th 6pm EST:The Witch’s Atelier
Exchange:
A single payment of $333
The cost of $333 for the five-week program includes five 90 minutes class, with recordings downloadable, five downloadable PDFs with generative prompts, a Slack Community & Coven to connect with other Art Witches.
We prioritize making our offerings accessible. If you require assistance, please write us a message to explain your situation and we can work together to find a solution. Payment plans are available.
FAQ:
DO I NEED TO ATTEND ALL WORKSHOPS LIVE?
No! This program is intended to support any schedule. Workshops can be listened to via recording. And you can tune into these workshops from any place as long as you have internet.
DO I HAVE ACCESS TO ALL MATERIALS FOREVER?
The Slack Channel will end with the program (2 weeks after closing), however, the prompts, exercises, and PDFs from workshops are yours to keep forever.
WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED TO HAVE BEFORE JOINING?
No experience needed! Just a love of art and magic required.
An illustrated fairy tale about a little witch, a curious invitation, and a sticky, springtime tradition.
On the next new moon, join Little Witch and her coven beneath the Elder.
It’s time to tell the bees.
Alongside Persephone and the Fairies, join Little Witch for high tea with the hive! As you and the bees sip honeyed potions, Madam Spider spins riddles and Little Witch describes a curious dream – one about a moonstruck hare, moving at your own pace, and the origin of fairy tales.
What does it mean to ‘tell the bees?’
Many moons ago, magick was part of everyday life. Bees brewed honey and pollinated flowers, but they also worked as household psychopomps, fuzzy messengers that carried our stories between worlds.
Back then, bees were not mere insects but divine couriers, and upon reaching important milestones, families toasted their good fortune with the hive. The buzzing might go on for days (the bees loved any excuse for a party), but once the hoopla died down, a team of pollinators would set out for lands unseen and deliver meaningful news to spirits long gone.
Today, the ritual of telling the bees appears in animistic and magickal communities, and according to Little Witch, a happy hive is a fruitful spell, sweetening the boundaries of heart and home.
Dimensions: 15x20cm
1 x Telling the Bees (Hardcover)
1 x Little Witch Hosts Samhain Supper (Hardcover)
Shipping to Portugal.