Mixtek Mystics with Amanda Sage & Joe Bob Merritt
Schedule
Thu, 15 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Thu, 22 Oct, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors | Wappingers Falls, NY
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ABOUT THE PROGRAMJoin us at CoSM for the return of the Mixtek Mystics Masterclass, a week-long transformational painting retreat with Amanda Sage and Joe Bob Merritt. An annual experience at CoSM!
Amanda Sage and Joe Bob Merritt have masterfully woven their teachings together, crafting an enriching and effective learning experience tailored to individuals of all skill levels with a passion for art and an interest in personal transformation. This upcoming seminar is centered around exploring innovative Mixtek painting techniques while delving deep into Mystic Teachings.
WHAT TO EXPECT
This class is for intermediate to advanced students. Accepted applications will be notified asap in order to allow for travel planning.
Tuition for the eight day class is $1,400.00 and includes meals, accommodations are additional.
MIXTEK
'Mischtechnik’ means ‘Mixed Technique’. Developed by early visionary European renaissance masters such as Hieronymus Bosch and Van Eyck, this indirect painting process was revived and reinterpreted by the Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs in the 1950’s.
Fundamentals of the Mischtechnik have been adopted by many painters working with fantastic and visionary subject matter, as the transparencies and use of light in the development of a painting are exquisite and lend to an ease of rendering the subties, transparencies, and complexities of visionary experiences.
MYSTICS
We are tripping in a temple of time, upon the altar of the ever present. Psyght Seers we Art.
Amidst painting demonstrations and studio sessions, Joe Bob will deliver a series of talks on “The Science of Man’s Conscious Self Evolution”. These insights spring forth from ancient origins and arrive in the current age as a psychetechnical framework laid out by the late Dr. Bob Gibson. Drawing from over 25 years of engagement with these ideas, Joe Bob will humorously, precisely, in a rather common-folk way, share these ideas that describe techniques for investigation and experimentation, designed to be worked with in the midst of everyday life. The concepts covered in these lectures will include maps of the elements comprising the knowable aspects and behaviors of the self, the function of awareness, descriptions of obstructions to awareness, and ways to integrate the ideas into one’s artistic practice that may contribute to one’s ability to understand one’s self in relationship with Life and thus strengthen one’s ability to function creatively.
YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Amanda Sage
Amanda Sage is an artist driven to contribute to the development of regenerative culture by using painting as a tool for transformation within the individual and collective.
Besides lecturing and teaching transformational painting workshops, her work has been exhibited in galleries, art fairs, museums and festivals worldwide.
Passionate about artistic social experiments, her endeavors are focused towards building, facilitating and participating in platforms designed to experiment and explore creative solutionary activism within community.
amandasage.com | visiontrain.org | IG: @amandasageart | FB: @amandasageart
Joe Bob
Joe Bob is interested in the intersection of the visionary arts, mindfulness, and the creative process. He believes that art making provides one with innumerable opportunities to develop sensory clarity, strengthen concentration skills, and cultivate powers of equanimity. He believes that the efforts that we as artists make in the cultivation of these skills contribute to the possibility of having direct experiences of freedom from mechanical conditioning and habitual re-actions, thus increasing the probability of intelligent, response-able, and creative activity in the midst of everyday life situations.
josephrobertmerritt.com http://southmaingunnison.com | IG: @josephrobertmerritt
CoSM WORKSHOP SETTING
Class sessions will take place in the MAGI Art Lab. (Mystic Artists Guild International)
The Grey House, CoSM's Visionary Victorian guest house, provides accommodations for all participants.
Residing onsite together is encouraged as part of this immersively creative week, providing maximum benefit & enrichment. Accommodations in Grey House are offered in a variety of economies, in addition 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 the guest rooms and common spaces of the Grey House.
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Where is it happening?
COSM Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, 51 Deer Hill Rd, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590-3934, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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