![]() ![]() The saint and goddess Brigit was of special importance, and Patricia often traveled to Ireland to celebrate her sacred days. Ireland was a special passion for her for many years as a focus of personal origin and of a location of sacred places and figures shared by Christianity and the pre-Christian Celtic religion. She was also a scholar of the history and reality of sacred women figures. Black Earth exists to promote that role of the artists as a powerful voice for justice. She was concerned to have artists serve the role they had in earlier times before art was a function of commoditization and fame. Black Earth Institute was such a vision she saw and then created. More than this she created programs, networks and organizations. As a scholar and an artist she opened doors and portals to a different world, different values and different history. ![]() In co-founding BEI along her husband Michael McDermott, Patricia followed the path in the way she had done so many other things. She did everything she could to continue life and work and lived fully during this period but ultimately left us. She passed away at home at Brigit Rest after a 2 year journey of hope and disappointment with cancer. Patricia was a scholar, poet, educator, spiritual pioneer and practitioner, and activist. ![]() Patricia Monaghan, co-founder of the Black Earth Institute passed on in the arms of her beloved husband on November 11, 2012. ![]() A Tribute to Patricia monaghan 1946 – 2012, cofounder of Black Earth Institute ![]()
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