2020 * Schedule of Events
Seminars
4 - Week Mischtechnik Odyssey
"A Master Class for the Creative Spirit in the Mixed Technique in
Egg Tempera and/or Casein and Oil"
The Seaside Village of Finikounda, Greece
June 14 - July 10, 2020
Prof. Philip Rubinov Jacobson & Mantra Cora
Prof Phil and Mantra create Painting Retreats in exotic places and sacred spaces. Prof Phil has accepted a full-time position teaching at a college in the USA., so he and Mantra will only be offering one 4 Week, in-depth seminar a year. This year, we will return to GREECE. As always, it will be a time for 'serious – play' and working to expand your vision and skills. Learning to paint anything from simple forms and found objects to the stuff of dreams and visions. Everyone will work on at least two paintings, one will be a painting developed from an abstract ground with guidance from Mantra. The other painting can be whatever the artist wants to strengthen in their work. The teachers will meet with every artist individually to go over their specified plan together. Artists can elect to work on more than these two paintings, or choose to focus on the two at hand.
* 120 - 140+ hours of instruction in Under-painting, Indirect & Direct Painting in Layers, and a version(s) of Mischtechnik as practiced by the Old Masters with innovations from Prof Phil & Mantra Cora
* Meet fellow Artists * Kindred Spirits - in a creative environment; studying, sharing experiences and cultural activities together.
* Enjoy meals, conversation and sharing visions together. Plan cooking together if you like, or check out the amazing local cuisine.
* When not painting, enjoy adventures in Greece discovering ancient ruins and art, or simply chilling and resting on a fine sandy beach by the sea. Excursions are sometimes an option for the 'group', but there is also the freedom to make your own adventures.
* Prof Phil & Mantra are always on hand to personally ensure that a transmission of essential knowledge and artistic spirit comes through group and individualized instruction.
* Respectful instruction is tailored to each individual's unique visual language. The teachers do not advocate one style over another, be it classical, visionary, fantastic, abstract or otherwise; but the students' personal direction and originality are encouraged.
* Renowned master artists have been known to drop in on the OMNV painting seminars, offering feedback, discussion and inspiration.
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Exhibitions
Friends and Acquaintances - 2019
Shafer Art Gallery presents the Barton County Arts Council’s annual exhibit
November 1 - December 13, 2019
A wide range of local artists’ work will be on display at the Shafer Gallery as part of the Barton County Arts Council Friends and Acquaintances exhibit Nov. 1 through Dec. 13. The show is underwritten by the Bill J. McKown Memorial Endowment distributed by the Golden Belt Foundation. Featured artists this year is new Barton painting instructor Phil Jacobson and his wife, Mantra Cora.
“The exhibit offers an opportunity to see in vivid detail what is going on in the creative environs of our own backyard,” Shafer Gallery Director Dave Barnes said. “Every style and approach to making art you can think of is on display here. We are grateful for the support of the Barton County Art Council for helping us give local artists a chance to shine. Art-making can be a lonely affair and events like this encourage their sense of connection while building and enhancing our sense of civic community as well.”
Featured Artists: Phil Jacobson and Mantra Cora
Mantra Cora Philip Rubinov Jacobson
Phil Jacobson and wife Mantra Cora uprooted themselves from Tuscon, Ariz., and headed to Barton County in August so Jacobson could become the new art instructor at Barton. Their moving truck became stranded in the desert, the trailer blew a tire and almost flipped over and their first night in Kansas they were welcomed by a monster thunderstorm. Despite their treacherous journey, they are now working on getting settled, just in time to be the featured artists for the Shaffer Gallery’s Friends and Acquaintances Exhibit.
Prof. Phil
For the past 25 years, Jacobson has traveled the world as a teacher giving seminars, and his reputation as a skilled painter is known internationally. He is now ready to shift gears in his new role as an academic art teacher and only travel once per year now.
“Part of the reason I’ve made this change is just to slow down and find a place where I can be supported and share back everything I have experienced at the same time,” he said. “So, to continue teaching but in a more stable kind of environment.”
Jacobson said art serves as an instrument with which he explores the many nooks and crannies of the physical and metaphysical world as it is constructed in his psyche.
“I have used art to investigate consciousness kind of like a cartographer but mapping different paths and journeys in consciousness,” he said. I was intrigued by seeing the different places the mind can go. It’s been a tool and an exciting, passionate one, I’ve used to explore dimensions of our awareness and consciousness.”
Jacobson’s selections for the show will represent a cross-section of his work from various periods and phases of his creative process over the years.
Mantra Cora
Mantra Cora grew up under communist rule in Poland. She said drawing and painting was a way for her to escape the harsh reality by creating beauty and harmony.
“It was a kind of meditation that let me be lost in space and time,” she said. “Actually, my mum often says that as a child I was never interested in playing with dolls or toys. My one pointed interest was playing with pens, pencils and paints on paper.”
After facing obstacles while trying to pursue a traditional art education, Cora quit art for 17 years. She eventually met her future husband in an alpine village near Vienna at a seminar he was teaching.
“He taught me how to paint in oils and helped me to believe in myself again,” she said.
From there, over time, she was able to gain more traditional studio art skills and the rest is history. Art is now at the forefront of her life.
“Art hasn’t changed me,” she said. “Art is changing me. I am taking creative risks with every step. Sometimes, I have fear, but realize the need to break through it.”
Cora will exhibit five pieces at the Gallery. Four of them are small portraits expressing that beauty and harmony can be found in the human form and the other is an intuitive piece that depicts the connection between the spiritual and the material realms.
For more information, contact Shafer Gallery Director Dave Barnes at or 620-792-9342.
Announcing:
CHROMA SOUL: A Visual Art Elixir
ACE 121 GALLERY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
March 27th - MAY 22nd, 2020
Taking place at:
ACE 121 GALLERY
121 N. KENWOOD AVE.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
Jennifer McEuen, Curator
The opening reception is on:
Friday, March 27th
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
A Group Exhibition Featuring the artwork of:
MORGAN MANDALA https://www.facebook.com/MorganMandalaArt/
RANDAL ROBERTS
https://www.facebook.com/randalrobertsart/
PHILIP RUBINOV JACOBSON
https://www.facebook.com/RubinovJacobsonArt/
MANTRA CORA
https://www.facebook.com/VisionaryPainting/
JACK SHURE
https://www.facebook.com/jackshureart/
MICHAEL PUKAC
https://www.facebook.com/michaelpukac/
JENNIFER MCEUEN
https://www.facebook.com/TheArtofJenniferMichelleLong/