Mission Statement

Black Earth Institute

Connecting earth, spirit and society through the arts

Black Earth Arts

Black Earth Arts encourages awareness of the arts as a means of promoting a progressive, inclusive spirituality and an environmentally aware society. The organization brings together artists and audience members to further understanding of the historical role of the artist as bringing forth wisdom from beyond the self.

Black Earth Institute promotes the oracle and orator, griot and druid, scientist and prophet, priest and priestess. We oppose the current definition of art as a commercial product derived from exploitation of personality and rewarded by celebrity and market status. We uphold the arts as a sacred path to wisdom, and we celebrate the artist as a seeker whose work benefits the entire human community