ARTIST and CURATE SHILOH SOPHIA

Shiloh Sophia lives life as a great adventure! A renaissance woman who communicates her philosophy through paintings, poetry, teachings and entrepreneurship. For 25 years she has dedicated her soul work to the study and practice of creativity as a path of healing which provides access to consciousness. As a curator and gallery owner, she has represented her own work, as well as hundreds of women artists. By the age of 40 she achieved incredible success through being in the top ten percent of sales for contemporary artists in the U.S. Her prolific intuitive painting process led to a desire to teach and provided the foundation for the groundbreaking work on how Intentional Creativity® can give voice to the soul. Her method of ‘creating with mindfulness’ has reached tens of thousands of students who have gained insight into the hidden self.

Her work is taught widely, at university in MA and Phd programs, the United Nations CSW, and by hundreds of Certified Teachers and Coaches. At the core of her work is a belief that the right to self express is one of the most basic human rights – “We have a right to know how to access what we think, feel, believe and to express it in our lives” Her life path is a spiritual practice, and an offering that was awakened with the feminine Divine. Her research dives into the exploration of the right/left brain connection with the heart and re-inventing personal archetypes as gateways to liberation. ”When we find freedom from the trauma of our stories, we can invent our own legends, and do the sacred work of organizing our consciousness.”

She is the creator of seven illustrated books, as well as a community leader. Having been trained by her mother Caron McCloud, the poet, and Sue Hoya Sellars, the artist, she brought her gifts of language and image into form through founding the Intentional Creativity ® Guild, Cosmic Cowgirls®, Power Creatives TV and Color of Woman®. She lives and works at Cosmic Cowgirls Ranch in California which provides education both in house and online, reaching over 25k subscribers a month. She can be found most days having tea with her muses discussing quantum physics and celebrating revelations of the heart.

Since 2006 Shiloh has written to her community several times a month in her blog, Red Thread Letters, providing ‘encouragement for the journey’ through art, image and inspiration. Shiloh’s upcoming book, Way of the Red Thread, founds the basis for her teachings on women’s circles and draws upon the Legend of the Red Thread teachings that we are all already connected.

She lives and teaches a philosophy that all art forms are tools for individual, social and spiritual transformation. She teaches her curriculum at universities like California Institute for Integral Studies and the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology in the MA and Global Phd programs. She has conducted research with hundreds of people and on the impact creativity can have on their lives for healing and insight.

Shiloh’s paintings are internationally collected and her product line has represented at galleries and fine shops throughout the Unites States for the past 15 years. Shiloh’s project, the Witness Tree, a collaborative art installation was present at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, and has now been duplicated by Guild Members as a way to create community and bring Intentional Creativity to places like TedX and art openings across the country.

She has spoken at the United Nations at the Commission on the Status of Women for 4 years in a row, has articles published in the global outlets that serve women like Women News Network and WUNRN. She also illustrated books, including Alice Walker’s book on poetry, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing.

Her recent publication of poetry spanning over twenty years of writing, Tea with the Midnight Muse, hit the new best sellers list on Amazon and was featured in the top ten of Aspire Magazine in 2017.

She and her husband Jonathan travel the world together providing experiences for others in food, art and conversation.

Shiloh feels that her greatest accomplishment to date is the founding of the Color of Woman School in 2000 – a culmination of her life work in the form of an offering to teach her methodology, Color of Woman. 50+ women graduate each year and together the work reached over 100k viewers/students a month through creative self expression.

In summarizing a life of creative action it is impossible to provide a comprehensive overview that is not way to long to read. That said, we have selected a range of Shiloh’s work, projects that were important to her, that show her cares and interests.

May love be at the center of all choices.