Council for the Revival of Matriarchal Arts
Re-membering Lineage • Rekindling the Hearth • Weaving the Future
Our Vision
The Council for the Revival of Matriarchal Arts (CRMA) was conceived to revive, celebrate, and promote women’s ancient and traditional arts. Matriarchal Arts are skills and behaviors that serve life, heal and strengthen the bonds among women, and foster local and regional self-determination. They include the life-nurturing and life-affirming activities that have been relegated to the undervalued and disdained “domestic realm” in modern times. These behaviors, adopted communally and in social solidarity, form the backbone of resilient social systems. By remembering and honoring the arts of our ancestors, we endeavor to reclaim lineages of women’s wisdom and dignity that have been suppressed by thousands of years of war and cultural disruptions.
Our Vision
The Council for the Revival of Matriarchal Arts (CRMA) was conceived to revive, celebrate, and promote women’s ancient and traditional arts. Matriarchal Arts are skills and behaviors that serve life, heal and strengthen the bonds among women, and foster local and regional self-determination. They include the life-nurturing and life-affirming activities that have been relegated to the undervalued and disdained “domestic realm” in modern times. These behaviors, adopted communally and in social solidarity, form the backbone of resilient social systems. By remembering and honoring the arts of our ancestors, we endeavor to reclaim lineages of women’s wisdom and dignity that have been suppressed by thousands of years of war and cultural disruptions.
Our Mission
Informed by the rich and diverse field of Modern Matriarchal Studies, our activities draw from ancestral wisdom and lineages of women that led and nurtured their communities with attuned care and compassion. By reviving and re-learning skilled arts that once sustained local communities in cooperation with the seasons and cycles of Mother Earth, we endeavor to restore our human capacity for harmonious communal coherence, as well as ecological balance.
Our Venue
We are re-integrating the principle of the communal Hearth at the center of our homes and communities. In this spirit, we gather to re-member the practical and spiritual arts that were developed and shared through generations and lineages. We share food, life experiences, talents, responsibilities, and challenges, and meet the trials and tribulations of beginning again with humility.
Our Mission
Informed by the rich and diverse field of Modern Matriarchal Studies, our activities draw from ancestral wisdom and lineages of women that led and nurtured their communities with attuned care and compassion. By reviving and re-learning skilled arts that once sustained local communities in cooperation with the seasons and cycles of Mother Earth, we endeavor to restore our human capacity for harmonious communal coherence, as well as ecological balance.
Our Venue
We are re-integrating the principle of the communal Hearth at the center of our homes and communities. In this spirit, we gather to re-member the practical and spiritual arts that were developed and shared through generations and lineages. We share food, life experiences, talents, responsibilities, and challenges, and meet the trials and tribulations of beginning again with humility.
What is Matriarchy?
According to an extensive body of research, “Matriarchy” refers to social systems that are women-centered, egalitarian, and consensus-based.
Matriarchal societies regard maternal care as the prototype for social behavior at all levels. Social structures foster and encourage nurturance and reciprocity among people and Mother Earth. Life-nurturing concerns and activities are located at the beginning of social, political, economic, and cultural priorities, just as well-calibrated maternal care and nurturance is crucial at the beginning stages of human life.
In contrast to patriarchal social systems that are hierarchical, inflexible, and therefore unstable, Matriarchal social organization is circular, spiraling, and dynamic, creating a social context that is living, breathing, and adaptable, and therefore more resilient.
