Gallery: Free Columbia

Free Columbia, in Columbia County, NY, works at the intersection of several goals: art school, life training, community-building, social-economic experiment, cultural trust. Our Initiatives section gives a short overview, and see the Digest for the Free Columbia crowd-funding effort.

Images in this Gallery are by several Free Columbia students and by instructors Nathaniel Williams and Laura Summer. Laura’s work is also the cover of this issue.

“Resolution” by Laura Summer (cover image)

"Ethereal Rising" - Laura Travisano

“Shroud” – Inge Valetini

"Yellow Wing" - Laura Summer

"Color Study" - Ianthe Lauwaert

"Lent" - Audrie Brown

"Milkweed" - Laura Summer

"Heaven Spirit" - Laura Summer

“America standing on the skin of the Way” – Travis Henry

“Image to Luster Study” - Sara Parilli

“Woodpecker” - Sara Parilli

“Color Perspective Study” - Sara Parilli

“Carrots Growing” – Kimberly O’Keefe

“Cup” – Laura Summer

This page, clockwise from top left: “Cup” – Laura Summer “Freedom in Shadows” – Nathaniel Williams “Table and Two Chairs” – Lailah Amstutz “Circumstance progression“ Laura Summer

“Freedom in Shadows” – Nathaniel Williams

“Table and Two Chairs” – Lailah Amstutz

“Circumstance progression“ Laura Summer

“Thank you for having faith. To me this has been an education in what it is to be human. It has given me insight into how to go forward into the world in a true way.” Laurel Iselin (student 1st year)

“May we all find our way to becoming more receptive and free. Thank you!” Laura Travisano (student 5th year)

“Free Columbia is about more than visual art – it is about the art of being human.” Rachel Fields (student 5th year)

“The year at Free Columbia was a kind of Being a Person 101. It brought certain aspects of existence into my awareness that hadn’t been present with intensity before...” Daniel Ripperton (student 4th year)

“Free Columbia is a glimpse of the future.” Travis Henry (student 3rd year)

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