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.
Matt Wiley
“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.
Nathanael Hyam Chawkin
Nathanael is a modern mystic, master coach, and martial arts instructor. For over 15 years, his practice-based approach has helped hundreds of executives reach their next level of leadership. His culture transformation work has been featured in Entrepreneur magazine and the Financial Times.
He created Guardian Training, a men’s work approach integrating MMA, conflict resolution, and shadow work, to awaken the sacred masculine aka "spiritual warrior" archetype. He started Awakening Leadership, a plant medicine journey for conscious leaders and EO/YPO forums in 2021.
Nathanael holds a BA (Maharishi International University) and MA in Integral Psychology & Coaching (JFKU). He lived in an Aikido dojo for two years as senior uchideshi and is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He founded Guardian Martial Arts (formerly Integral Martial Arts) in 2010.
IG: @nathanael.chawkin
Jordan Santoni
Aka Jedi, is a leadership coach, psychedelic integration specialist, and sacred ceremony facilitator, devoted to guiding transformative inner work.
He presently trains guardians, and facilitates men’s circles for the Temple of The Living Truth , where he supports leaders in embodying purpose, presence, and relational integrity.
A former Exec Director of FireTenders Men’s Org, Jordan weaves somatic meditation, rewilding, sacred rites of passage, and therapeutic depth coaching into his transformative offerings.
Elizabeth Sciore-Jones
Elizabeth was a lead artist within the Hive 2019-2023. She worked on the Bee Divine Hive Temple at Burning Man 2019 and the Temple of Sacred Being at LoveBurn in 2023. She was the lead for design, the interior setting, altars, and the woven walls. She is no longer a part of the Hive Collective, but her work and impact with us live on, and we continue to use the evocative sounds scape she created with our temple offerings. You can learn more about her and her incredible work on her website.
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.