Archetypes and Abstract Expressionism: Intersecting Hilma af Klint and C.G. Jung

Archetypes and Abstract Expressionism: Intersecting Hilma af Klint's and C.G. Jung's Works

Interactive Online Only Workshop
Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, 9:30am - noon, CDT
Please join us!

This workshop is a brief sojourn into the lives and works of Swedish abstract expressionist artist and mystic Hilma af Klint, 1862 –1944, and Carl Gustaf Jung, 1875 –1961, Swiss psychiatrist, mystic, and artist. Although their paths never crossed, the striking similarities in their creations appear to stem from a collective archetypal wisdom.
In this discussion, we examine the interconnectedness of these two luminaries whose influential works, grounded in mysticism, art and science, reveal the essence of the numinous. Often elucidating the constructs of Jung’s theories of archetypes and dualism, af Klint’s artwork portrays a life steeped in scientific endeavors, privileged art education, and the will to persevere. Jung’s artwork, in large part, resulted from his encounters with the unconscious and struggles with his Shadow.
Both Jung and af Klint contributed to their fields by making the invisible visible, by formulating the path leading beyond the invisible (unconscious) to the visible (conscious). Jung argued that the unconscious could be accessed through carefully attending to dreams and visions which could result in numinosity. Af Klint’s artwork intuitively achieved the same psychic inroads which conveyed the interior (emanating from the unconscious) to the exterior (the conscious). The prescient aptitudes of both scholars reveal an uncanny sense of foretelling future events, such as sickness, death, and war.

Join us via Zoom for Dr. Terrell's workshop with audience questions on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, at 9:30 a.m. Central Standard Time.

General Registration: $40.00
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• Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
• Student Registration: $10.00
• Email your name, email address, and school to info@jungdallas.org
• Continuing Education Credit
• We are offering 2.5 hours of continuing education credit for LCSW's, LPC’s, and LMFT’s. After registration, email info@jungdallas.org for certificates of attendance.

Shirl Hughes Terrell, holds a Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities from UT-Dallas and an M.A. in Depth Psychology, with a focus on Jungian and Archetypal Studies, from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Shirl is a language and communication specialist and was faculty at Collin College for 22 years.
She currently serves as Board member of the C.G. Jung Society of North Texas where she has held the offices of president, secretary, and treasurer. Shirl provides training for National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and has worked for Traffick911, whose mission is
to free youth from sex trafficking through trust-based relationships.