Creative Tarot Workshop (In Person, Hudson NY)

WHO THIS IS FOR:

This workshop is for artists and makers who want to immerse in Tarot’s rich symbolism and learn practical techniques to infuse our creative practice with new energy. Whether you’re a seasoned Tarot reader or you’ve never picked up a deck, this workshop will guide you in harnessing the power of Tarot for inspiration and innovation in your everyday life. Our goal is to build a body of work in its beginning stages or already in process. This class is for people who are open and willing to interact and hold space by listening to others and within. They want to create a sense of order in their creative practice to balance out the labor of creative making in all its stages. They want freedom over situations that have placed emotional limitations on them in their past work. This work is all about balance, how to find it, and how to restore it. This work is for the fearless who are ready to synthesize wisdom, power, and initiation.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: 

This workshop on the relationship between tarot and creative practice as a way to hone the muscles of intuition that are inherent in both practices. In this workshop, we'll discuss how we can bring that  energy into our work, how to use tarot to springboard other phenomena in our art, and how different artistic mediums can inform and complicate one another. 

We will incorporate prompts, worksheets, readings, and videos from the works of Jessica Dore, Leonora Carrington, Michelle Tea, Alejandro Jodowrowsky and other seminal figures who have embraced tarot into their art practice on an online platform. Participants will learn new generative exercises, emphasize process over product, create brave learning spaces for participants, and find a balance between independent working time, discussion, and lecture. 

COURSE ACTIVITIES:

• In-class writing exercises offer a range of productive constraints for participants to respond to creatively. Creators will be encouraged to follow their individual interests in subject matter, and to write/create in whatever modality they wish.
• Reading and discussing inspirational works as models
• Relating personal interests and experience to cultural, historic, scientific, and artistic phenomena, thereby placing the self in context with the larger world
• Generating creative artifacts that result in a joy of making.
• Focus on accessing wellsprings of creativity and imagination, clearing blocks, experimentation and play, developing confidence, and taking artistic risks.
• Sharing the work we create with each other and building creative community

WEEK ONE : Art & Ritual

WEEK TWO: Intuition

WEEK THREE: Process

WEEK FOUR: Planning ( to be honest, process and planning are intertwined but everyone meets their starting point in their own way so these two will be happening simultaneously)

WEEK FIVE & SIX We will have a final presentation of work in whatever stage is at and plan to either do an exhibition/publication online or in a real space so this time will be devoted to thinking through that.

• Do I need to know tarot or have a tarot deck?
• • Not necessarily! Tarot will not be the whole of the workshop. We'll also be meditating and journaling! There will be a tarot portion of the workshop where we pull cards, but you can choose to journal on those questions instead or you could use a free tarot apps that are online. I will suggest a few and open to suggestions. I want this to be a space for all skill levels to feel comfortable. 

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:

Cat Tyc is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks, An Architectural Seance (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative) and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). 

Her most recent writing has published in Maggot Brain The Recluse, Shock of the Femme, Touch the Donkey and FENCE.

She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest and the synthesis gallery in Berlin. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext and MTVu.

Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert gallery in 2022.

She has been granted residencies and fellowships at Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar and Mass MOCA and has received support from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts.

She teaches writing at the School of the Visual Arts in New York City and lives in Hudson, NY.

Host or Publisher Cat Tyc