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| | Awake: Art and Buddhism |
 | | Thus, AWAKE seeks to contribute to the culture-at-large by revaluing the role of artists in society, encouraging the joint role of participants in artistic experience, and emphasizing the potential for the arts to play a role in addressing forces that rupture human nature and divide societies. |
 | | AWAKE: ART, BUDDHISM, AND THE DIMENSIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS is a multi-phase, non-sectarian program focusing on a major theme in American artistic life that has never fully been analyzed or presented in a comprehensive way: the common ground between the creative mind, the perceiving mind, and the meditative mind. |
 | | On the one hand, AWAKE will result in a well-conceived series of exhibitions, performances, publications, workshops, readings, and other activities; while, on the other, it aims to demonstrate how cultivation of awareness is primary to creativityboth in the making and the experiencing of art. |
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