Artist & Resources
Here is an incomplete, alphabetical list of Pacific Zen Institute members who are painting, writing, dancing, or otherwise creating with the bright, fierce, gentle assistance of koans.
- Lee Allen – painting and textile arts
- Allison Atwill – painter
- Rachel Boughton – sculptor, writer
- Jesse Cardin – musician and writer
- Dane Cervine – poet and essayist
- Trace Farrell – writer
- Amaryllis Fletcher – violinist
- Denise Fujiwara – dancer, choreographer
- Corey Hitchcock – interdisciplinary artist and writer
- Michael Hofmann – sculptor and sumi-e painter
- Asa Horvitz – contemporary performance, musician
- Sacha Kawaichi – poetry, jewelry, and visual arts
- Alok Hsu Kwang-Han – calligraphic painter
- Christopher Lods – painting and drawing, musician
- Dennis Peak – painter
- Nora Reza – painter
- Amy Elizabeth Robinson – writer and poet
- Jim Snarski–photographer
- John Tarrant – writer, poet, calligrapher
- Rene Thomas – artist and poet
- Tim Walters–photography
Resources on Creative Mind
We gathered this short list of resources from our PZI creatives in 2017. While it’s therefore inherently time-bound, we hope you find something provocative or inspirational in here, too:
- David Abrams, Becoming Animal
- Heather Angel, photography
- Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: Towards a Political Ecology of Things
- Robert Bosnak, Embodiment: Creative Imagination in Medicine, Art, and Travel
- Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
- Brainpickings–a website from Maria Popova, “an inquiry into how to live and what it means to lead a good life.”
- butdoesitfloat.com, a continually fascinating collection of art, design and images from the curators of Cargo Collective.
- Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things: Essays
- Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment (Paper Monument)
- Edward F. Edinger, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy
- e-flux Journal–a monthly art publication featuring essays and contributions by some of the most engaged artists and thinkers working today.
- Alan Fletcher, The Art of Looking Sideways, in which a great designer attempts to document everything he never learned in school (it’s a lot, and a lot of fun).
- James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld
- Jane Hirshfield, ed., Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women
- Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
- Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist
- John Daido Loori, The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
- John Shaw, photography
- Viktor Shklovsky, Bowstring: On The Dissimilarity of the Similar
- Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000-2015 (Paper Monument).
- Christa Wolf, Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays
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