EthnoArts & Media trip to the Solomon Islands

Once every four years, Pacific artists gather together to celebrate both their common heritage in the arts (visual, song, dance, theatre, etc.) as well as their cultural … Continue Reading

The Aroma of the New

Commencement Address at Belhaven University By Makoto Fujimura I am grateful to be given this honor: an honor that is symbolic of the commitment to the arts … Continue Reading

Face Down

By Lanier Ivester I was a Christian, and I was a dancer. A ballerina, as I liked to avow with all the solemnity of seventeen. Studying classical … Continue Reading

Sacred Story

With the pen as his pulpit, George MacDonald used fiction to show the relevance of scriptural truth to the problems of his age. By Kirsten Jeffrey Johnson … Continue Reading

A Renaissance Gallery

Five artists who captured the imagination of the church: Masaccio, Fra Angelico, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael By Rachel Smith The optimism and confidence in … Continue Reading

Cape Town 2010: Art & Integrity

The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, in collaboration with the World Evangelical Alliance, recently drew together over 4,000 delegates from 197 countries for a historic international gathering … Continue Reading

A Letter to Young Artists

Makoto Fujimura has followed up his Letter to North American Churches with a Letter to Young Artists (based on a letter originally written for Michael Card’s book … Continue Reading

The Wise Imagination

George MacDonald’s legacy is his reminder that we are creative beings because we are made in the image of a Creator. By Trevor Hart Editor’s note: C. … Continue Reading

A Letter to North American Churches

Last week we featured artist Makoto Fujimura in our Artlinks section. Makoto recently delivered a challenging letter to churches and artists at the Eighth Letter Conference for … Continue Reading

Art & Faith: Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura is one of a rare breed: an internationally successful artist, writer, and speaker who has gained the respect of both the Christian and secular art … Continue Reading

Raising Artful Children

The vision of StoneWorks builds in many ways upon the recommendations of the 2004 “Redeeming the Arts” paper by the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. One of … Continue Reading

Why Wesley Still Dominates Our Hymnbook

Two centuries later, what’s the secret of Charles Wesley’s undiminished popularity? By Timothy Dudley-Smith Charles Wesley has been called “the most gifted and indefatigable hymnwriter that England … Continue Reading

Artists and the Global Church

W. David O. Taylor, editor of For the Beauty of the Church, challenges us to open our eyes to the art of Christians outside the West. For more … Continue Reading

The Prodigal Artist

Rembrandt’s art, like his life, traced the contours of sin and grace. By Laurel Gasque Perhaps no other artist captures the imagination and the heart of a … Continue Reading

THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan

Recommended by Christy Tennant, Director of Global Community for International Arts Movement and Host of IAM Conversations Several years into my career as an actress, when I … Continue Reading

FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE CHURCH, edited by W. David O. Taylor

Reviewed by Steven Guthrie, associate professor of theology at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and director of Belmont’s “Religion and the Arts” program A few minutes ago … Continue Reading

ART IN ACTION by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Recommended by Steve Guthrie, associate professor of theology at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and director of Belmont’s “Religion and the Arts” program In college I studied … Continue Reading

THE MIND OF THE MAKER by Dorothy Sayers

Recommended by Andy Crouch, the author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling and a senior editor at Christianity Today International. Dorothy Sayers was one formidable lady. … Continue Reading

MY NAME IS ASHER LEV by Chaim Potok

Recommended by Timothy R. Botts, professional calligrapher and senior art director for Tyndale House Publishers Chaim Potok’s Orthodox Jewish background comes through vividly in My Name Is … Continue Reading

The Art of the Question: Plot & Subplot

Paul Hobbs, a visual, sculptural and conceptual artist of Gloucester, UK, came to faith at an early age, but came asking a lot of questions.  This questioning … Continue Reading

The Mission Minded Artist

MISSION: Discipling Artists to Be Mission Minded “Does art imitate culture or does culture imitate art? No one can say for sure. However, no one disagrees that … Continue Reading

Phoenix Performing Arts Trust

Mission: To enable Christians involved in the performing arts at whatever level to realize their full potential for the service of Christ. Aims: 1.     To develop the … Continue Reading

La Fonderie

Mission: La Fonderie exists to value, encourage, inspire, and embolden Christians working in the arts. We believe that artists who are also growing disciples of Christ should … Continue Reading

Aslan Performing Arts Centre

Mission: To reach a secular and religiously apathetic European society with the redemptive message of Christ through the arts. The Aslan Performing Arts Centre is a non-profit … Continue Reading

Artists in Christian Testimony International

Mission: A.C.T. Intl exists to mobilize and equip artistic and innovative ministries and missionaries for Christian work around the world. A.C.T. Intl was founded on the conviction … Continue Reading

10X Productions

Mission: To see the arts become a key part of strategies for planting churches among unreached people groups. 10X Productions is an award-winning, non-profit film/media production company. … Continue Reading

The Culture House & Storling Dance Theater

  Mission: To cultivate artistic excellence for personal growth and positive cultural direction for the Kansas City community and surrounding areas. The Culture House is Kansas City’s … Continue Reading

Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship (CPAF)

Mission:   The performing arts world is a dark and spiritually needy place, full of broken and hurting people. For this reason, CPAF believes that the arts … Continue Reading

International Arts Movement

Mission:

Photo courtesy of IAM

The world is not as it ought to be. We long for meaningful existence and involvement in our culture—to make our world a better place and to be part of a story greater than ourselves.

Restoring the Ruins

A recent StoneWorks Arts Leadership Training (SALT) conference mobilized artists for mission. By Pat Butler “Pass through, pass through the gates…” In an Italian heat wave, a … Continue Reading

“Stone by Stone”

A New DVD Teaching Series on the Arts by StoneWorks International Director Colin Harbinson

Café Life

On March 19, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., PointZero Physical Theatre will be holding “Café Life,” an evening of live music and performance art in Oxford, England. Held … Continue Reading

Safina Stewart’s Gospel Glasses

Safina Stewart is an Australian Indigenous Christian artist living in Melbourne, Australia.  Born in Auckland, New Zealand, but raised in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Safina … Continue Reading

The Art of the Question: Plot & Subplot

Paul Hobbs, a visual, sculptural and conceptual artist of Gloucester, UK, came to faith at an early age, but came asking a lot of questions.  This questioning … Continue Reading

EthnoArts & Media trip to the Solomon Islands

Once every four years, Pacific artists gather together to celebrate both their common heritage in the arts (visual, song, dance, theatre, etc.) as well as their cultural … Continue Reading

The Art of the Question: Plot & Subplot

Paul Hobbs, a visual, sculptural and conceptual artist of Gloucester, UK, came to faith at an early age, but came asking a lot of questions.  This questioning … Continue Reading

Resistance is Never Futile!

Helping Artists Find Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape   Geoff Hall, author and film-maker in Bristol, UK, began his journey into the arts as a child, … Continue Reading

The Mission Minded Artist

MISSION: Discipling Artists to Be Mission Minded “Does art imitate culture or does culture imitate art? No one can say for sure. However, no one disagrees that … Continue Reading

Resistance is Futile!

Helping Artists Find Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape Geoff Hall, author and film-maker in Bristol, UK, began his journey into the arts as a child, playing … Continue Reading

WordSmith Poetry and the Poetic Justice World Tour

The Power of Words Expressed Through Performance & Poetry It all started with an open mic in Charlottesville, VA. Host Ebony Walden looked out into the audience … Continue Reading

The Aroma of the New

Commencement Address at Belhaven University By Makoto Fujimura I am grateful to be given this honor: an honor that is symbolic of the commitment to the arts … Continue Reading

Open Position: Principal of Dance Academy in Australia

Seeking expressions of interest for the position of principal at a Brisbane-based Christian dance academy. Grace Dance Academy began operating in early 2009 and was initially started … Continue Reading

The Need to Pay Attention

By Luci Shaw A student in a lecture hall once asked me, “Don’t you get tired of noticing things?” By way of answering her I quoted one … Continue Reading

Introducing the Church and Art Network

The new “network of networks” seeks to connect, educate, and encourage Christians in the arts. By Luann Jennings, founder and director Church and Art Network (C&A) is … Continue Reading

Face Down

By Lanier Ivester I was a Christian, and I was a dancer. A ballerina, as I liked to avow with all the solemnity of seventeen. Studying classical … Continue Reading

Café Life

On March 19, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., PointZero Physical Theatre will be holding “Café Life,” an evening of live music and performance art in Oxford, England. Held … Continue Reading

Safina Stewart’s Gospel Glasses

Safina Stewart is an Australian Indigenous Christian artist living in Melbourne, Australia.  Born in Auckland, New Zealand, but raised in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, Safina … Continue Reading

The Art of the Question: Plot & Subplot

Paul Hobbs, a visual, sculptural and conceptual artist of Gloucester, UK, came to faith at an early age, but came asking a lot of questions.  This questioning … Continue Reading

EthnoArts & Media trip to the Solomon Islands

Once every four years, Pacific artists gather together to celebrate both their common heritage in the arts (visual, song, dance, theatre, etc.) as well as their cultural … Continue Reading

The Art of the Question: Plot & Subplot

Paul Hobbs, a visual, sculptural and conceptual artist of Gloucester, UK, came to faith at an early age, but came asking a lot of questions.  This questioning … Continue Reading

Resistance is Never Futile!

Helping Artists Find Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape   Geoff Hall, author and film-maker in Bristol, UK, began his journey into the arts as a child, … Continue Reading

The Mission Minded Artist

MISSION: Discipling Artists to Be Mission Minded “Does art imitate culture or does culture imitate art? No one can say for sure. However, no one disagrees that … Continue Reading

Resistance is Futile!

Helping Artists Find Spiritual Direction in a Postmodern Landscape Geoff Hall, author and film-maker in Bristol, UK, began his journey into the arts as a child, playing … Continue Reading

WordSmith Poetry and the Poetic Justice World Tour

The Power of Words Expressed Through Performance & Poetry It all started with an open mic in Charlottesville, VA. Host Ebony Walden looked out into the audience … Continue Reading

The Aroma of the New

Commencement Address at Belhaven University By Makoto Fujimura I am grateful to be given this honor: an honor that is symbolic of the commitment to the arts … Continue Reading

Open Position: Principal of Dance Academy in Australia

Seeking expressions of interest for the position of principal at a Brisbane-based Christian dance academy. Grace Dance Academy began operating in early 2009 and was initially started … Continue Reading

The Need to Pay Attention

By Luci Shaw A student in a lecture hall once asked me, “Don’t you get tired of noticing things?” By way of answering her I quoted one … Continue Reading

Introducing the Church and Art Network

The new “network of networks” seeks to connect, educate, and encourage Christians in the arts. By Luann Jennings, founder and director Church and Art Network (C&A) is … Continue Reading

Face Down

By Lanier Ivester I was a Christian, and I was a dancer. A ballerina, as I liked to avow with all the solemnity of seventeen. Studying classical … Continue Reading