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☁️ Lu ✨ in 🌞 joy 🪄
🪐art and play and music and words
🏳️‍⚧️ transformer, artist, and coach 🐦‍🔥
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Our annual fundraiser launches today! Every spring, we create a unique, communal space where artists thrive and learn together, modeling a world we all dream of. This year, we’re raising 💸$8,000💸 to sustain support our next session. With your help, we can continue offering transformative education outside traditional academia. 💖 Help us make our next session happen—your donation supports our need-based and Black Equity scholarships, and travel stipends for our volunteer staff. Donate now and help us sustain this radical space! 💫 L⛓️NK IN BIO
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The adventures and joys of the last 2 months. Sharing all at once because I kept forgetting to post each great thing! Especially grateful for my sweet pup and the family that visited recently!
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Applications are now open❤️‍🔥for our annual spring session: May 16-24, 2026! Scroll through for details + 🔗 link in our bio 🔗for info + applications. 🌀Early Admission student deadline: January 7th 🌀Faculty Deadline: Tuesday, January 27th 🌀Scholarship deadline: February 26th 🌀Final student deadline: March 5th
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Nov 30th we are at it again. Intuitive advice, inspiring conversation, and art all rolled into one exceptional experience. Luin and I create something super unique and inviting every time we put on this event. Join us for this November MAGIC & MAKING event! Get your ticket in bio or DM me to ask how you can gift a ticket for the holidays.
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The next MAGIC & MAKING event is November 30th! Ten spots available. Luin Joy will be making art for you while I give you a psychic reading in response to the 1-3 questions you have on your mind and heart. People have been loving this event as much as Luin and I have loved hosting it. Come stop by for an evening of entertaining, heartwarming art and connection! Link in bio to book. ❤️
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Not to be dramatic, but maybe you need to be?? If you've been on the road you're on for a good, long while and you need a spot to rest, then Luin Joy and I have what you seek. Group psychic readings have this strange and beautiful power to them: they bring together people who need to hear one another's readings as though the other readings, as different as they all are to one another, are gift-wrapped for all those present. This next group, in my mind, is its own cohort. A special team of folks changing either their own personal worlds or our big collective world. They are tired. They are in proximity to optimism and hope but need it pushed toward them for a change. They are individuals who are hugely resourceful. They create solutions for themselves all the time. And, they just might feel heart-sunken and threadbare at the moment. They are you. You have a seat with us. Let Luin and me pour some love right into your cup! Link in bio. 🪄🤞😔❤️‍🩹🫁🫀💪
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The next MAGIC & MAKING is happening on November 30th. We still have all 10 spots open and available, which means we have space for you and that special person in your life getting you hyped up, focused, and grounded...but who also needs that same love, too. Luin and I both feel this next event is for the dreamers who feel a little bruised, but determined to make this life so, so good. Let's all meet together! Let's make some magic and art together! Tickets are available in bio. $55. Nov 30th, 5-7pm CT.
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We want you to feel comfortable during MAGIC & MAKING, so why not meet the folks hosting?? LUIN JOY is a delight. His abstract artwork creates emotional responses because of his ability to capture shape and color with curiosity that speaks to each and every person individually. His pieces ask you to explore your own emotional landscape. SARAH MILKO gives psychic readings ripe with kindness and possibility. Her readings are almost always paired with pragmatic advice on how you can live your most authentic and joyful life, without ever sugarcoating or trivializing life's true obstacles. She'll tell it like it is, and inspire you to make this life your own. Both of our hosts pour immense love into you during this event, and your fellow participants do too. So, come on in. We're ready for you!
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Beautiful words and images from longtime SotA community member @liminals: “The heavy keeps getting heavier and the nonsensical more wild every day. I know you know what I mean, it’s redundant to harp. But this dark, slimy background serves as context for the warm pockets - the small, compassionate clusters of community at the center. These bright spots feel brighter with the world so dark. It can’t be understated, this is crucial sunlight - without which, no day would never break, no crop would ever grow. I’ve found this light in an artist residency, you might have heard me talk about it before. In May of 2017 I went to School of the Alternative in Black Mountain, North Carolina because I’d read about a program that attempted to progress the legacy of Black Mountain College. I’d soon find out this way of describing SotA is actually sort of laughably reductive - it shared a campus and an ethos with BMC but took on a multifaceted, ever-unfolding identity of its own. There were classes on anti-product painting and ritual dreaming, shared living quarters and work duties, a nonhierarchical structure. But I guess I didn’t expect my fellow residents to be so… playful? Reverently irreverent? I guess I had been a little intimidated, it was my first artist residency out of state, I knew no one, it was early in my career. Imposter syndrome followed me like a curse. But the way SotA cultivated this very freeing, very immediate, very nonjudgmental space for all of us to fuck around, with no pretension and no perfectionism in sight, was life-changing. My favorite example (I’ve told this many times) is that all my life I had desperately wanted to make music but was afraid. I held music with such religious reverence. So I never tried! I thought I’d definitely suck at it, which I couldn’t bear. But it only took one class at SotA to change that for me (shoutout Zach Cooper) and I jumped right in. Now I make music - simple as that. So much has shifted and initiated for me as a result of so many years attending School of the Alternative. This community means so much to me, and keeping it funded and nurtured is the only way to keep it alive.”
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Transparency is radical and important. We’re in the final days of our annual fundraising campaign, and we’re still a ways from our goal. We are fundraising to: 🌀hold our next session 🌀 keep tuition at the price that it’s at ($575 for a 9 day session) 🌀keep offering Black equity and need based scholarships 🌀 pay small travel stipends to our faculty and staff 🌀 meet the operational deficits that tuition doesn’t cover. We do this work on a shoestring budget and all of the work to put together our sessions is done by wildly dedicated volunteers. We’re fundraising this month to continue our current model: we need your support. Whether that is through a $5 or $20 or $500 donation or by sharing this campaign, we’re asking for your help to sustain this space!
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Today we’re launching our final fundraising initiative, one that we hope will be iterative for years to come! Recipes straight from the SotA kitchen! • Gathered + compiled by Kitchen all-star Maggie in Austin, TX • Printed + assembled by SotA OG Velveteen in Norman, OK • Doodled + drawn by SotA artists from across the country: Sara Lautman‍ ‍| Velveteen‍ | Maggie Wilbur‍ | Meara‍ | Jameo Duncan‍ | KT Murray‍ | Noelle Dubay‍ | Luin Joy‍ | Paulina Olivares In true DIY spirit, these 14 vegetarian recipes were made for community tables — some for a crowd, some just for you. This is our first-ever SotA cookbook, and we hope to keep building on it year after year with recipes created during future sessions! 🛒 Pre-order by Nov. 1: Books will ship 2-4 weeks after pre-sale closes.
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RAFFLE ENDS TUES 10/28🌀! Have you shopped out cutie cutie raffle yet!? For as little as $5, you could win one of 20 incredible items, from handmade pottery and wearable art to creative coaching and even a custom song written just for you👀. All prizes were donated by members of the SotA community. Every raffle ticket supports our 2026 session - funding scholarships, operational costs, and stipends for creative labor. The more tickets you buy, the better your odds (and the deeper your support)!
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