“I seek to inspire students with the beauty, wonder and wisdom reflected in great art. Together we discover how art is a mirror of consciousness: the artist’s consciousness, the culture's collecitve consciousness, and our own consciousness. Students awaken to both cultural and universal values expressed in art, and gain inspiration for their own creativity. We often discover that art mirrors our own aspirations for life in higher states of consciousness.”

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Biography

Matthew Beaufort is Associate Chair of the Department of Art and Design and Assistant Professor of Art. In 1973, he received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale University with honors in the history of art. For more than two decades, Professor Beaufort has explored relationships between art and consciousness. He edited a ten-hour videotaped course on Art and the Science of Creative Intelligence^® which has been viewed around the world, and he has created a video tape on “Art: The Mirror of Consciousness.” Professor Beaufort regularly speaks on this topic at other schools and at professional conferences. He has also led University art courses abroad in Italy and France. He received two M.A. degrees from Maharishi University of Management, including an M.A. in the Science of Creative Intelligence in 1990. He also did two years of graduate work in the History of Consciousness Ph.D. program at UC-Santa Cruz, specializing in art history.

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Contact

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