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General Anthroposophical Studies Focus area with Michael Howard
Art is not only a medium of self-expression but a path of knowledge and research into life and vocational questions. The exceptional insights and practical examples of Rudolf Steiner can widen our appreciation for the role of art in the evolution of human consciousness. Exploring the universal human dimensions of art can develop an artistic way of perceiving, thinking and creating that is applicable to all realms of human interest and all walks of life.
Some areas of exploration that can be illuminated through an anthroposophical and artistic research methodology are:- A Path of knowledge and Research into life and voacational questions
- Understanding and developing creativity in all spheres of life
- The role of art in education and teacher development
- Art as a path for developing inner faculties and capacities for the social and ecological arts
- Quantitative and qualitative perception in psychology, healing arts, education, agriculture and business
- The art of research - developing the inner capacities and methods of spiritual research based on exact perception of the qualitative dimension of the sense world as a window into the living, soul and spirit realities of the physical world.
- The path from student of the spirit to researcher of the spirit
- The art of spirit self - art as an inner meditative path
- The metamorphosis of form as a path of schooling in self- and social metamorphosis.
Michael Howard was born in Vancouver, Canada, in 1946. Michael began sculpting at the age of fifteen and received a BFA from Eastern Michigan University and an MA in Fine Arts from Columbia Pacific University. He has taught art (sculpture, drawing, and painting) to adults and children for over 35 years. He edited and introduced a collection of lectures on art by Rudolf Steiner entitled, Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner's Contribution to the Visual Arts. He has also written a book on the role of art in education called Educating the Will. For the last six years he has lived and worked as a freelance artist, teacher and writer in Amherst, MA.
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