"Maturing the Elementary." Linoleum Relief Print.
Purposes of my program a.k.a. the way I will be living:
1. To provide contemporary American students – whose lives are lived largely after or without tradition – a vivid experience of tradition in art, spirituality and worship, and civic life.
2. To inspire young people of faith to re-connect with the artistic, cultural and spiritual traditions of the past, neither in a mood of nostalgia nor in a mode of academic dispassion, but to foster a creative response to the past in order to shape a humane future in the arts and culture.
3. To establish a workshop environment that invites collaboration between teacher and student, fostering a community of makers and learners answerable to one another.
4. To give students an experience of rhythms of life slower and simpler and more embodied than the forms of contemporary American life by dining together, encouraging sustained conversation, experiencing the traditional liturgies of religious life and civic celebrations, living more closely to the earth in the midst of vineyards and olive groves, and by trading the automobile for the foot.
Such purposes may make Gordon IN Orvieto appear to be hopelessly old fashioned. We believe, rather, that the program’s vision may prove to represent a counter-cultural avant-garde, addressing hungers that people feel deep inside without fully recognizing them. We hope that our program in Orvieto can be radical – going to the roots -- pruning back unconstrained foliage to nourish the roots of being human: namely, an incarnational mode of human being that can touch the spiritual in the material, that can hear and see the invisible things of God in the visible things of God’s creation, that can sing with Saint Francis
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