Sea The Spirit in Action is a living archive of Courtnie May’s journey as an artist, community organizer, and cultural storyteller. Here you’ll find moments captured from live paintings, large-scale murals, vending markets, festivals, and collaborative projects that have unfolded over the years. Each image and event reflects the heart of the Sea The Spirit Collective—a space where art, spirit, and community come together in vibrant expression.
This page serves as both a portfolio and a timeline, showcasing the evolution of Courtnie’s creative path: from early shows and grassroots events to professional commissions and immersive community experiences. It is a testament to the vision behind Sea The Spirit—art not only as a personal practice, but as a shared movement that uplifts and connects people across cultures and generations.
About The Collective
Sea The Spirit Collective is a multidisciplinary art, healing, and community-building collective devoted to creative sovereignty, spiritual remembrance, and sustainable cultural systems. What began as an artist-led vision has evolved over time into a living ecosystem that integrates fine art, event production, education, healing arts, and collective infrastructure for creatives, artisans, and cultural stewards.
Creative & Artistic Practice
At its core, the Collective supports and produces original visual art, installations, mixed media works, ritual objects, and limited-edition prints rooted in spiritual symbolism, cosmology, ancestral memory, and visionary experience. The Collective curates galleries, pop-up exhibitions, vending installations, and immersive art environments at festivals, markets, and cultural events. Artists within the Collective are supported through shared resources, collaborative creation, and opportunities for public-facing presentation.
Event Production & Vending Coordination
Sea The Spirit Collective operates as a full-spectrum event and vending coordination body. This includes organizing artist collectives for festivals and markets, managing vendor applications and layouts, coordinating logistics with production teams, and creating visually cohesive vending villages and art zones. The Collective acts as a bridge between artists, event organizers, and production companies to ensure ethical operations, fair representation, and smooth execution at both local and large-scale music and arts events.
Healing Arts & Spiritual Integration
The Collective holds space for spiritual healing modalities that honor intuitive wisdom, ancestral knowledge, and embodied presence. This includes art-as-medicine practices, ceremonial workshops, guided creative rituals, energy work, and community healing experiences. These offerings are designed to help individuals reconnect with their inner knowing, process grief and transformation, and access creative flow as a tool for healing and empowerment.
Education, Workshops & Skill Preservation
Education is a foundational pillar of the Collective. Offerings include workshops, classes, and mentorship in visual arts, pottery and ceramics, sacred geometry, symbolism, indigenous-inspired land stewardship practices, and creative entrepreneurship. The Collective is committed to teaching practical craftsmanship skills alongside ethical living principles—supporting the next generation of artists and makers in learning how to live, create, and work in right relationship with the land and community.
Community Infrastructure & Artist Support
Sea The Spirit Collective functions as a support system for artists and creatives navigating independent careers. This includes collaborative project management, shared marketing and media support, collective branding opportunities, content creation, and administrative guidance. The Collective prioritizes ethical leadership, mutual aid, and trauma-informed collaboration, fostering environments where artists can thrive without exploitation.
Media, Publishing & Subscription Offerings
The Collective produces printed and digital media, including art prints, zines, ritual guides, educational materials, and monthly snail-mail art subscriptions. These offerings invite supporters into an ongoing relationship with the work—providing tangible art, reflective activities, and community connection delivered directly to the home. Storytelling, documentation, and visual archives are used to preserve the evolving narrative of the Collective.
Land-Based Vision & Long-Term Development
Looking toward the future, Sea The Spirit Collective is developing a land-based vision that includes a spiritual healing center and gallery, workshop and pottery studios, communal gardens, and outdoor learning spaces. This vision supports long-term cultural sustainability by creating a physical home for the arts, healing work, skill-sharing, and intergenerational knowledge transmission.
Values & Ethos
Across all aspects of its work, Sea The Spirit Collective is guided by values of authenticity, creative freedom, ethical leadership, ancestral respect, ecological responsibility, and community care. The Collective exists to remind individuals of their creative power, support artists in building liberated livelihoods, and cultivate spaces where art, spirit, and society meet in meaningful, transformative ways.
Sea The Spirit Collective is not a single project—it is an evolving organism, shaped by time, collaboration, and the shared intention to create beauty, healing, and lasting cultural impact.
