About Shiloh Sophia

Shiloh Sophia lives life as a great adventure narrated by the creative fire of her Muse! She has been painting, writing poetry, publishing books and teaching at universities, the United Nations and in her own programs and around the world for over twenty years.

Her soul work is inspired by the idea that self expression, the freedom to express what each person thinks and feels in the world, is a basic human right. Her research and development around this idea has focused on serving women and girls through giving them access to methods of transformational art-making through stories, symbols and inquiry.

Shiloh is the co-curator and founder of the Intentional Creativity Foundation and Cosmic Cowgirls, a woman and girl owned school that serves between 500 and 5000 women a month through revolutionary education, both on-line and on-location. Musea Sophia, the site of the Cosmic Cowgirls’ school, inn and museum, is located in Sonoma County, California.

Shiloh Sophia has also founded a teacher training program, Color of Woman, which certifies women to teach Intentional Creativity worldwide. Currently there are close to 200 teachers in the lineage who are part of the Intentional Creatives Guild.

Shiloh has brought the technology of Intentional Creativity to academic settings by teaching at universities in Global PhD and Masters programs. She has also presented her work and research at the United Nations 4 years in a row at UNCSW.

Shiloh has published many books on creativity, including coloring books and journals, and has illustrated books and decks including the Mother Mary Oracle with Alana Fairchild and Hard Times Require Furious Dancing for Alice Walker. Her most recent book, Tea with the Midnight Muse, features twenty years of poetry as invocation, along with inquiries to spark your Muse fuse!

Intentional Creativity, an intuitive painting process accessing internal imagery and story, has ancient origins. From explaining our relationship with everything from the cosmos to the Great Spirit, human nature is to create art with intention. Shiloh’s lineage of intentional creativity comes to us from New Deal artist Lenore Thomas Straus, who trained Shiloh’s mentor, artist Sue Hoya Sellars. Sue and Shiloh’s mother, poet Caron McCloud, worked together with Shiloh to bring the method to the world.

Shiloh lives in the vineyard lined hills with her husband, Jonathan, who is also a poet and artist. Their Muses can be found most mornings having tea and discussing quantum physics, philosophy and sacred texts in the Red Thread Cafe. Avant garde. Curate. Culture.

www.shilohsophia.com

www.cosmiccowgirls.com

www.intentionalcreativityfoundation.org