2026 Visionary Art Intensive with Alex Grey & Allyson Grey
ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
Applications are OPEN for intermediate to experienced artists who work in any medium.
Deadline to apply: Friday, February 13th | APPLY NOW
Visionary artists Alex Grey & Allyson Grey teach painting and drawing from the wellspring of divine imagination. In this workshop, artists create from the sacred ground and the mystic eye.
Alex & Allyson led The Visionary Art Intensive for 28 years at Omega Institute. Beginning this past summer of 2025, the Visionary Art Intensive is now being offered at CoSM’s charming classroom, the MAGI Art Lab (Mystic Artists Guild International.)
Visionary Art Intensive at CoSM, class of 2025
Throughout this seven-day workshop, all participants will have the opportunity to share sketches and works in progress emerging from daily vision practices, and access funnels toward vision-manifestation.
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Tuition & Meals: $1400.00 —Accommodations additional & recommended to stay onsite.
Through illustrated talks, vision practices, and group interaction, we empower the process of bringing our heart’s iconography to outer form and examine the global & venerable Visionary Art tradition.
Using guided imagery, meditation, shamanic ascent, and practices to envision body, mind & soul, we open the doors of the imagination to the theater of revelation. Utilizing basic materials such as graphite, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylics, we commit mental pictures to paper and discuss the aesthetic dimension of our mystical experiences.
Explore art as a spiritual path and art as a life path. Address technical concerns and define creative goals.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
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The 2026 CoSM 7-Day Visionary ART Intensive with Alex Grey & Allyson Grey offers an immersive program for serious and experienced artists who practice their art in any medium.
Limited space is available—an application with samples of your artwork will be required for the selection process of participants in the Visionary Art Intensive.
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In this workshop we will spend seven days fully immersed in the creative passion that feeds your soul.
Gift yourself by making space in your life for a retreat from ordinary responsibilities.
Fully commit to realizing your artistic visions along with mystic artists across the globe.
Alex & Allyson will spend part of each day offering feedback to participants about their sketches and highlight the wisdom of masters and peers.
Effective feedback fuels a culture of inspirational thinking.
Listening to discussions about the art of others educates us in solving our own creative challenges.
Daily Vision Practices Will Explore:
- Visionary Empowerment
- Self-portraiture
- The Shamanic Journey
- The Light-Body
- World Spirit
Discussion will address archetypes and the aesthetic dimension experienced in expanded consciousness. Illustrated talks, vision practices, and group interactions will empower our inner worlds and translate those experiences into outer form. There will be daily guided imagery and meditations to open the third eye. Presentations on the History of Visionary Art and the theme of each day will saturate our minds with imagery that addresses the question, "What is Visionary Art?"— a journey through a worldwide historical movement that began at the beginning of recorded time.
With basic materials—pencils, watercolors, acrylics, we will practice transforming revelations from our mind’s eye into objects of contemplation.
Bring Your Questions About Art & Life:
- Explore art as a spiritual path and art as a life path.
- Develop artistic techniques.
- Define creative goals.
- Discover and celebrate your stylistic uniqueness.
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SCHEDULE:
All times are listed in EDT.
Sunday, July 12th
- 12pm: CoSM opens to the public
- 3pm-5pm: Workshop Check In: guests arrive by 5pm and check-in to their rooms.
- 6pm: Dinner & Orientation are an essential part of the workshop for all participants.
- 7:30pm: Introductions & Presentations in the Library
Monday, July 13th through Friday, July 17th
- 8am - 10am: Self-serve breakfast in the Dining Hall
- 10am: Work Session in the Library
- 1pm: Lunch in the Dining Hall
- 3pm: Work Session in the Art Lab.
- 6pm: Dinner in the Dining Hall
- 7:30pm: Open Studio Session in the Art Lab
Saturday, July 18th
- 8am - 10am: Self-serve Breakfast in the Dining Hall
- 10am: Work Session in the Art Lab
- 1pm: Lunch in the Dining Hall
- 2pm: End of Workshop
- 6pm: CoSM closes
CoSM and Entheon are open weekly on Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 12pm - 6pm when CoSM Grounds close. Participation includes day passes during open hours to CoSM facilities and grounds for the duration of the workshop.
A private tour of Entheon will be scheduled for workshop participants so class time is not missed.
ITINERARY NOTE: You are welcome to extend your stay and arrive as early as Thursday, July 9th, 2026. This may be a good time to unwind from travel, plan your work ahead, preview Entheon (noting that a class tour is scheduled during the workshop), tour Grey House Galleries and CoSM grounds before the workshop begins, as the workshop schedule is quite immersive once in session.
YOUR INSTRUCTORS:
Alex Grey & Allyson Grey
Alex Grey, world-renowned artist, poet, and author, is best loved for his paintings which portray multiple dimensions of reality, interweaving biological anatomy with psychic and spiritual energies. His books, Sacred Mirrors, The Mission of Art, Transfigurations, and Art Psalms, trace the development of his work and mystical experiences that shaped his spiritual artistic life. Alex’s most recent monograph, Net of Being, addresses how his art is evolving the cultural body through icons of interconnectedness. alexgrey.com
Net of Being by Alex Grey
Allyson Grey is an artist whose paintings have been exhibited and sold internationally. Co-founder of the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Grey is a community leader with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Tufts University. She has edited and co-authored over a dozen books and journals, lectured widely, and has been an educator and muse to artists for over 30 years. The symbol system in her paintings represent an essentialized world-view comprised of chaos, order and secret writing. Allyson is the wife and partner of internationally renowned artist, Alex Grey, and the mother of accomplished film actress, Zena Grey. allysongrey.com
Chaos Order Secret Writing by Allyson Grey
Together, the Grey’s co-founded the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, a spiritual creative retreat center in the Hudson Valley of New York. On the forefront of a movement in which painters join musicians on stage, the Grey’s painted together live before tens of thousands of folks at New York Broadway theaters, at sold-out festivals and arenas in dozens of international cities across five continents. As long-time advocates of “cognitive liberty,” a growing international “sacramental culture” has embraced the Grey’s as important mapmakers and spokespersons for the visionary realm. The Grey’s, with a dedicated and evolving team, have co-created CoSM, an interspiritual Art Church, home of Entheon, a Visionary Art sanctuary. cosm.org
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Entheon, sanctuary of Visionary Art at CoSM
CoSM WORKSHOP SETTING:
Class sessions will take place in the MAGI Art Lab. (Mystic Artists Guild International).
The Grey House, CoSM's Visionary Victorian guest house, provides accommodations for all participants. Residing onsite together is encouraged as part of this immersively creative week, providing maximum benefit & enrichment. Accommodations in Grey House are offered in a variety of economies, in addition to the workshop fee.
For participants choosing to stay off-site, a $250 commuter’s fee covers use of CoSM facilities and amenities.
Participants are welcome to extend their retreat from one to several additional days at CoSM, from Thursday before the workshop begins until Monday at noon, following the workshop.
(Extended days for this workshop may include: Thursday, July 9th - Monday, July 20th).
WORKSHOP AMENITIES
Available for the duration of the 7 day workshop:
- Three healthy meals provided daily by CoSM chefs
- Coffee, tea and snacks available in the Art Lab between meals
- Access to Grey House common spaces — The Library, The Parlor, The Dining Hall & Gallery Spaces on all three floors
- Yoga mats for self guided practice
- Accommodations include private rooms and shared dorm rooms—femme only or co-ed options
- The Wisdom Trail offers a contemplative walk through the CoSM woods, including a labyrinth, outdoor sculptural installations by visionary artists
Participation also includes Day Admission to CoSM: Friday, Saturday & Sunday 12pm - 6pm:
- Access to Facilities, grounds and self-touring Entheon
- Students are welcome to experience Entheon and Grey House Galleries, including both CoSM Shop & Entheon Shop.
- Beverages and light fare will be available for purchase in the Mushroom Cafe, an immersively muraled space with mushroom themed contributions from 19 accomplished visionary artists
MATERIALS:
To participate, you will need sketch materials.
- Small table easel if desired.
- Pencils and pens for drawing: 2B, 3B, HB…
- Pencil sharpener
- Drawing/watercolor pad with heavy paper: 11” x 14”
- Colored pencils, markers, inks: 20 or more colors
- Kneadable eraser
- A sketchbook for note taking & rough sketching
- Artist white tape
- Roll or large sheets of tracing paper
The best quality of materials is recommended to all serious artists.
Options: Work with your favorite materials.
- Note that this is an idea generating workshop.
- A number of projects will commence each day as touchstones for finished works to be completed in your home studio, if you choose.
For these exercises, here are some options we recommend:
- Watercolor set, watercolor paper block and great brushes
- Colors - pencils, markers, crayons, inks & brushes
- Acrylic colors, best brushes, and: Gesso board, prepared wood panel or stretched canvas
- Due to health concerns, chalk pastels are not allowed in the Art Lab.
MATERIALS PROVIDED in the ART LAB at CoSM
- Small work table for painting supplies and horizontal work
- Extension cord, trash can, storage cube
- Basic supplies available: plastic rulers, markers, pencils, erasers, bond paper, lap desks, scissors
- A projector for transferring drawings to painting surfaces.
Student Artwork, Visionary Art Intensive, 2025
TUITION:
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Deadline to Apply: Friday, February 13th, 2026
Response letters to all applications will be sent at the end of February, 2026.
- Tuition for the 7-day Visionary Art Intensive includes meals - $1,400.00.
- Accommodations are additional in varying prices. (see below)
- Payment plans available. All funds are due one month before the start of the workshop.
For further information, contact [email protected].
ACCOMMODATIONS:
The Grey House, CoSM’s Visionary Victorian guest house, offers accommodations for all participants. Works of art by Alex Grey, Allyson Grey and accomplished artists of the international Visionary Art community are featured throughout the guest rooms and common spaces of the Grey House.
Onsite accommodations are a part of the course experience and are available in a variety of economies. Here is the pricing for the six night stay, arriving Sunday, July 12th, departing Saturday, July 18th, 2026, reflective of the 10% workshop discount:
- Private king room with ensuite bathroom $1,485.00
- Private queen room with ensuite bathroom $1,350.00
- Private queen room with a shared bath $1,080.00
- Single bed in a dorm room $648.00 *femme only and co-ed options
A $250.00 commuters fee applies to participants staying off-site, covering the use of CoSM facilities and amenities.
Workshop accommodations must be booked directly through the workshop department with confirmation of workshop acceptance and registration, rather than through the booking engine on the website.
Acceptanced participants will receive more info on booking accommodations with their acceptance letter.
Questions about tuition or accommodation fees, payment plans, travel, retreat amenities, materials, etc.?
Contact Genevieve Wood: [email protected].