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