Our Artists
Elizabeth Huebner
“Art is a portal through which truth can be known. The deepest truths are that of our own divine nature. My work is in service to both the sacred remembrance of our godflesh and creating portals through immersive temple ritual theater experiences .”
Elizabeth is the founder of Bee Divine Embodiment a pathway to spiritual awakening and worldly engagement that unifies the spiritual with the material. At the heart of this work is a unique interactive ritual theater that collapses the 4th wall, inviting would be observers to partake in the ritual. Through the portals of art and play participants are invited to become the Gods/Goddesses themselves, to worship them as the living human beings they are. The key to this creative work, is that it’s not merely imaginal, it is rooted in deep spiritual truth and practice.
Elizabeth is an ordained Priestess both in the Divine Mother Church and the Temple of Isis and has been training in a lineage of European Honey-bee shamanism at the Sacred Trust in the UK since 2018. She is a certified Hypnotherapist with an AA in Theater and a BA in Philosophy. For the past ten years she has taught at transformational festivals. She is currently offering in 1:1 coaching, with intimate workshops and retreats. Her ritual theater has been offered through the Bee Divine Hive Temple at Burning Man 2019, Odyssey Festival, the Temple of Isis Convocation 2019 and has co-created several art films. She can occasionally be seen performing the Goddess singing and offering roses to passers-by in downtown Santa Barbara.
Dave custodio
“…Creating and interacting with the artwork allows us to strive for a more prosperous human experience. The unspoken conversation of this artistic space becomes one of inspiration, experimentation, empowerment, human progress and evolution.”
As an artist, builder, and craftsman; creativity is a core element of my life and driver of much of my basic functioning. Wood, bamboo, and clay are the primary mediums of my creative expression, and has been at the core of my artistic practice since childhood. I strive to pay homage to the innate earthly beauty of these materials while exploring their boundaries and playing with their possibilities. I study different historical traditions of craft while pushing my creations into a more experimental and contemporary realm.
The beauty and functionality of my materials are , derived directly form nature, are the core concepts of my creativity. Architecture, location, function, and interactivity are common modalities explored in my work. This approach is the way in which I strive to root myself and my communities into our more primal senses of humanity while being reminded of our human essence.
Dave Custodio is a 3rd generation descendant of Ellis Island immigrants, raised in Connecticut, spending most of his time outdoors, climbing trees and playing street hockey. He graduated with honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and moved to Boston to produce art events while remodeling historic homes. His work with Massachusetts art collectives changed the way he created and valued art. This experience has led him to produce art around the world including the Cosmic Convergence Festival, Electric Forest, Electric Daisy Carnival, Envision Festival, Boom Festival, working such artists as Android Jones and the Fractal Tribe…
Elizabeth Sciore-Jones
“The creation of Art is a holy act where each individual receives a gem of experience that collects into their unique perspective.”
My art is the crossroad where a feminist archeological dig meets your Great Aunt's Victorian attic. A sacred Temple space of tchotchke heaven, where maximalist Altars of handmade Ceramic Venuses, flowers, cauldrons, bones and lacy bits are covered by saturated organic projections. Gold painted assemblage sculptures made from curbside scores, dumpster diving and goodwill bins, are reinvented creating meditation spaces.
Elizabeth started her installation art journey at 13 years old, building first pagan altars in the woods and by 15 had moved to a large monthly window display at the See Spot Art Gallery in downtown Ithaca, NY. In the past 14 years she has traveled abroad, graduating with a BFA ‘08/ School of Visual Arts in NYC, becoming an ordained Reverend 2012/ Temple of Isis, CA, then earning a MFA ’17/ Herron School of Design in Indianapolis, IN. In this time she has created 100+ art shows with immersive installations, experimental video, sustainable fiber arts, alt-photography, ceramic Venuses, and ritual theater costuming.
She has taught and/or installed art at Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Burning Man, Healer DIY, Beyond.Art, Herron School of Design, Indiana University, Omega Institute, 1440 Multiversity, Elements Festival, Unifier Festival, Isian Society of Integrated Studies, and the Stutz Gallery…
Matt Willey
“The hive I am creating is a metaphor for us all…no matter your color, nationality, religion, gender, age or economic status. This piece of art is an idealized picture of health to focus on as we work toward solutions.”
Bees never forget that they are part of something bigger than themselves… their hive is a part of them. What if we embodied this idea? What if we got curious about the world and each other again instead of intimidated by it? The experience of creating each new mural, like pieces of a global puzzle, offer powerful connective moments for people both in their community and in their own heart and consciousness.
Matt Willey is the founder of The Good of the Hive, a global art project based on his personal commitment to hand-paint 50,000 bees - the number in a healthy hive - in murals and installations around the world. He has completed thirty-four murals and installations with over 8500 individual bees in 6 years. A personal experience with a honeybee in 2008 sparked a paradigm shift for Matt. He realized that human and planetary health are collective, although we rarely act like it. The global hive Matt is painting is a metaphor for the connectedness of all things. The bees are a symbol for people, pollinators, trees, animals, water, soil and everything in between.
Matt has created buzzing hives of awareness and inspiration at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington DC, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in NYC, Burt’s Bees Global Headquarters, Burning Man 2019 and several works are currently on display in a show called Art for the People – Earth at the American Embassy in Beijing, China. He has worked with NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks Public Art Program. He has painted in a Broadway star’s dressing room in NYC, at a fire station in the American south, and at schools across the country and in the UK.
Cathryn the Grateful
“CREATOR is most celebrated when we CREATE. My purpose is to be be fully awake ~ to celebrate creation everyday through singing, dancing, community and opening to our dreams made manifest.”
Cathryn the Grateful is a multidisciplinary artist and ordained minister originally from Asheville, NC. She created the award-winning documentary film Fully Awake about the legendary Black Mountain College (which birthed the American Avante Garde). The film has screened at MoMA, the Guggenheim Bilbao, National Gallery and countless community centers and museums globally.
She has produced large scale community artistic happenings across the Southeast as the Executive Director of Enough Pie, a non-profit dedicated to weaving community together through co-created public art and creative placemaking.
Cathryn is the founder of the Joyful Revolution (2018) and most recently, A Living Temple (2020), a domestic Temple honoring the Divine Feminine in Charleston, SC. A brown belt Nia dancer, she leads Divine Dance Parties bi-weekly as well as a Women’s Circle at A Living Temple.
In 2021, Cathryn and a team from A Living Temple created a contemplative installation re-envisioning the traditional nativity called BE STILL & KNOW for Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in Monck’s Corner, SC.
An ordained Minister of Movement, Cathryn is a celebrant who holds sacred space to celebrate the profound passages in our lives like marriage, birth, and death. Photo by Jill Goldman.
Orielle Anaïs
“What else exists at the centre, which sex steers us toward, is Truth.
Truth is distilled essence.
Truth is the still point of existence.
Truth is the piercing simplicity.
Truth simply is.”
I depict stillness in motion. I’m interested in making work that speaks to hidden chambers within the viewer, stirring awake the primordial as they view and interact with the art. Sensuality is the chosen method of delivery because sex hits at the centre, a gut response that can be moderated but never snuffed out. My work expresses a nuanced truth - Duality and tension are what bind all of existence together, and this friction is what allows all to be borne. When allowed the space to be what they are, the sacral and sacred become one. At the center of each of us exists a cord that cannot be cut. This psychic umbilical cord links into the wisdom and power of those who came before, and those yet to come.
Orielle is a French Mexican American Painter, sculptor, dancer, and health coach. While currently living and working abroad she is studying the bodies natural motion. Orielle creates kinetic portraits that weave together paradoxical feelings and sensations. She is visually inspired by the work of masters such as Rodin, Edo Period Japanese Art, and 19th Century Abstract Expressionism. These influences are reflected in the expressive washes of paint and Chiaroscuro.
2022 TEMPLE OF SACRED BEEING: Merryman Cassels, Karla Capacetti, Jill Goldman, Diane Berrios, Kristi Williamson, Lauren Linton, Mallory Burggraaf, Rose Amaru, Nyima Archer, Tatiana Mosa Salazar (photos of water blessings by Jill Goldman Photography)
2019 BEE DIVINE TEMPLE: Tamberly Conway, Nathanael Chawkin, Merryman Cassels, Connie Huebner, Karla Capacetti, Dave Huebner, David Huebner, Patricia Humming Bee, Ana Rivero Rossi and many more.
MEET OUR EXTENDED HIVE COLLECTIVE
We are Divine beings living in physical form. Our aim, rather than to merely perform, is to create a real experience of a living Temple. We do this by being grounded, doing the work, and allowing the Divine to express through each of us.
Our ritual theater is created to hold the experience of the sacred by performing authentic integration and by guiding participants into their own Divine embodiment. This interactive sacred theater is created through four main roles. The Priestesses are our central performers, oracles, and guides. Each Priestess has training in a feminine wisdom like Divine Mother Guidance or the Path of Pollen. Our Temple is held by the container of two polarities: the Guardians hold the role of protector and receive training in de-escalation, conflict resolution, and conscious communication. The Guardians are the sacred masculine pillar that energetically grounds both the physical temple space and our ritual activities. The Vestal holds the other polarity of the Sacred Feminine: she is warmth, the loving embrace, the hostess of the Temple. This role is embodied by anyone one with a Femme inclination and a background in spiritual practice.