This course explores the threshold between the seen and unseen using a broad range of drawing, collage, and painting materials to explore the unconscious mind. Drawing upon a range of spiritual and occult practices, including tarot, automatism, and color meditations, this class offers students the opportunity to explore processes that unlock the imaginative potential of the unconscious. Through a series of readings, presentations, studio visits, field trips, and critiques, the class will gain knowledge of histories of the spiritual in art and learn to harness ‘chance’ more intentionally into their studio practice. This is a studio-based course in which there will be both project assignments and in-class projects in which students adapt the techniques learned in this class. We will discuss artists like Hilma af Klint, Pamela Colman Smith, Transcendental Painting Group, Yves Tanguy, and Betye Saar as well as international artistic movements like Symbolism, Surrealism, and Neo Tantric Painting.