Free Columbia is about change - change in ourselves, change in the world. It is about learning to percieve through color, form, movement, creative process and thinking. Learning to percieve what is needed, what is being asked for from the world. It is about new social forms of interacting, of understanding, of financing.
The Free Columbia Art Courses are intensive explorations into art. Currently an eight month painting course is available, as are week-long intensives in the summer and winter, after school classes for children, once a week practical arts classes, evening lectures, a study group, music performances and once a month movie night.
Free Columbia is based on an understanding of the importance of creating independent and accessible educational and artistic opportunities. There are no set tuitions. Suggested donation amounts based on what it costs to run courses are provided. It is possible to make a monthly pledge to support Free Columbia as well.
Free Columbia takes place in rural Columbia County, New York, 2 hours north of NYC. It is supported by people all over the country.
To provide an artistic course of study out of the inspiration of anthroposophy which seeks to promote and
ignite freedom.
Free Columbia now has 4 books available:
52 weeks - Drawing and Painting with Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul by Laura Summer $35 plus shipping
Dark and Light Drawing 52 exercises by Laura Summer $20 plus shipping
Art, Postmodernity and Anthroposophy by Nathaniel Williams $10 plus shipping
Sweater of Rain-gesture stories by Laura Summer $22 plus shipping
all books will be shipped book rate $3.50/one book, $5 /two or more books
You can send a check made out to: Hawthorne Valley Association - memo
Free Columbia
To: Laura Summer
651 Harlemville Rd
Hillsdale NY 12529
