RONDA LARUE

Ronda LaRue, M.S.
Integrative Artist, Author & Social Scientist
Professional Biography
THE HUMAN PSYCHE - CULTURE - CONSCIOUSNESS
Calling all Poets of Life:
Your Hole-y Service is required on Center Stage ....where
The Human
Condition Is Showing
Current Act: Actors seen storming the castle called earth) at one of history's more revealing passages, when the extraordinary powers of human invention, fear and division are exposing an equally extraordinary depth of human shadow & folly.
Shakespeare, Jung, Father Merton, the Walk for Peace Monks, and millions upon millions of misfits throughout time who could not help but see and show and tell truth, surround this moment waiting to see how we will play it...

AN INTRODUCTION:
It is my hope that this website will help spark your own creative ways of becoming ever more enlivened, artfully-present, daringly-inspired, and compassionately-awake to the circumstances we f
I've spent a lifetime studying the human condition--both formally through my graduate work in Applied Social Research Methods (TCU, 1982) --and in ways much more up close and personal... Most notably the unanticipated trials and tribulations, missteps and miss-takes and those heart-wrenching confused times that bop us upside the head until we find and reflect our gifts.
I've come to see firsthand, through my own foibles and folly, as well as through my formal studies, and then much more deeply through decades offering SoulArts private retreat intensives, that how we meet each moment and movement in our own lives, asks for self-knowledge and what of ourselves we will offer to society.
Whether we like it (or not so much), life offers a remarkable schoolroom and a whole panoply of possibilities.
The trick I've slowly learned is how to uncover the wisdom buried within what life presents.
I have gathered here the work of a lifetime spent wondering what moves human beings (individually and collectively) through our trials and tribulations, hopes and dreams, fears and loves, identifications and false gods; through health and illness ....all the myriad calls by life itself to wake up and reflect your life's own work of art in the making...
At this time in history we are facing a convergence of social, geopolitical, environmental, and technological changes which are converging faster and beyond what we've yet the capacity to carefully understand or respond. We find ourselves at a stunning crossroads, with the of humanity and our home planet at stake.
An Posed Quest:
What have you lived through that lets you see something others might miss or need help finding within themselves? And what could you do with that gift? It might become a song, a piece of art, or a conversation your community has been needing to have.
This is what I hope that this site, and my life work may help inspire in you now today...
— Ronda LaRue
Social Research Scientist
Conceptual & Cultural Commentary Artist
Author
Founder of SoulArts Studio
THE SOULARTS STUDIO
CURRENT FEATURE:
Earth Sings the Blues
(Earth Tell'n It Like It Is)
Ecological Commentary - Wry Blues
Earth takes the mic, with weary wit and plenty to say about the species running the show. A sassy-blues sung by Earth — weary, clear-eyed, and still standing — telling the truth without flinching.
→ Listen
RONDA'S SOULARTS LIFEWORK:
Contemplative Writings on Consciousness, Creative Self-Awareness & The SoulArts Daily Living Journey
Information about the SoulArts Living Practice and Private Mentoring Programs and Events
Three conceptual installations exploring cultural perception and the media, hidden identities, and contradictions in our social story.
FROM THE EARLIER ARCHIVES - 1998-2000
SOCIAL COMMENTARY AND ART INSTALLATION PAST PROJECTS
REMOTE VOYEUR: OUTSIDE IN
1998
DREAMING THE UNVEILING
1999
ALTAR TO HUMAN WASTE-FULLNESS
2000

Gatherings at The Vista House →
Small gatherings and conversations hosted by Ronda LaRue and Matt Clements in Ashland, Oregon.





