Liberate Your Inner Artist
At the Art Monastery, we guide heart-centered creatives to dissolve blocks, merge art with spiritual practice, and cultivate a joyful, fearless expression that feels authentically yours.
Are you an Artmonk?
Do your fingers itch to create?
Do you suspect your art-making could be a spiritual practice — sacred, even — but you don’t want to get all up on your high horse about it?
Do you dream that your work could be of service in some way? To proliferate joy, connection, and insight?
Welcome.
You’re an Artmonk and you’ve found your people.
Your Path to Creative Awakening
Artist Unleashed Bundle
A bundle of resources designed to help you dissolve creative blocks, deepen your art practice, and connect with your inner muse. Yours for free!
100 Day Challenge
Join a global community of creative makers for the Art Monastery's most popular course. You'll find the support & tools to express yourself everyday, building a creative habit that lasts longterm!
Awakening Creativity Program
A transformative program that supports women & non-binary folx to overcome creative blocks, unleash flow, and make the art you were born to make.
Meet Suiko McCall: Artist, Teacher, Visionary
Suiko Betsy McCall is the heart behind the Art Monastery. As an artist, teacher, and former monk, Suiko merges creativity and spiritual practice to help others reconnect with their authentic voice.
Her approach blends the discipline of monastic life with the freedom of artistic exploration, empowering creatives to see their art as sacred and their lives as works of art.
Everything in your life—every moment, every struggle—is the path.
Everything is an opportunity for awakening.
—Pema Chodron
Alive in this jazz age Gregorian chant melancholy drag show
pitting us between a hardened reflexive nincompoop binary
flooded in zero sum swimming pool concrete
Hands tied with plastic capitalist lies that garnish the big old man lie
the lie to rule them all, so many lies every day, the oldest lie
that the vulnerable quiet ones are naturally rightfully exploited
Yes we are alive in this polychoral sprained ankle of love
where God asks us to risk getting shot in the face
for resisting racist paramilitary nazi/kkk amateur hour
These short new days of the young year slipping
down the slippery chute of submission
who do we need to convince of our sincere intention
Our holy connection—
what can we do to welcome them into our opposition
we believe we can disagree without being enemies
Difference is actually Resilience brand perfume
made from locally-sourced, all-natural materials
with a spring in each gatherer’s step for sure!
Apply spirituality to the wound like bank mud, calendula
shape of a hand upraised in friendship fun, in earthy greeting
heart face eye searching finding the sun unbroken ongoing
Alive for the time being as fossil clouds
neither wise nor foolish just hungry at some level
for more tomfoolery innocence equilibrium ease beauty
This first dark moon week wants justice
the second quarter moon week wants peace
the waxing third week moon just moans & moans
A mountain brook crying down in silver reflecting pools
full of this life experience, both together and apart
is the immediate dance death bliss basis of all existence.
Stay inspired with our Moonletters
Receive original poems and paintings around each New and Full Moon, designed to inspire your creative journey and deepen your connection to art, intuition, and rhythms of the earth.
Curious to explore past Moonletters? Browse the Archive and soak up the inspiration.
What Artmonks Are Saying
Our programs have transformed the lives of countless creatives. Hear directly from our Artmonks about their journey.
"The Artmonk Challenge did for me exactly what I had hoped it would -- helped me establish a daily art practice. I cannot tell you how grateful I am! I have a ridiculously hard time establishing routines of any sort, definitely my biggest challenge. But making a small goal (art 5-10 minutes every day), and having the accountability of that 100 Day Challenge, worked for me."
"Thank you for your work in creating this entrance into art. I am 74 and have never had any art instruction. Whatever the quality of my art may or may not be, I feel like I’m coming home."
"Very creative and deeply spiritual organization. The folks who run it are devoted to it and live their lives in accordance with it."
“I’ve been taking Suiko’s retreats and programs since 2016. Suiko’s natural grace, ease, and wisdom have always nurtured me. My desire to connect with art, meditation, and such like minded people is essential to my well being.”
"Suiko has the incredibly rare ability to translate the creative process into usable, understandable pieces of information. I don’t even know how that’s actually possible — but she does it."
"Suiko offers substantial value through the playfulness she brings to everything she does and says, as well as her love of art and creative thinking... She is non-traditional and that is EXTREMELY appealing because it gives me (and others) room to play and explore myself (thoughts, feelings, ideas, desires) freely without fear of scolding."