EthnoArts & Media trip to the Solomon Islands
No CommentsOnce 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
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The Aroma of the New
No CommentsCommencement 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
No CommentsBy 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
Cape Town 2010: Art & Integrity
No CommentsThe 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
2 CommentsMakoto 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
A Letter to North American Churches
No CommentsLast 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
Raising Artful Children
No CommentsThe 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
Artists and the Global Church
No CommentsW. 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 Power of Story
No CommentsReading may not change the world — but it changes the reader, and that’s a start. By Katherine Paterson The summer that I was 17 years old, I, who … Continue Reading
Do You Want to Be an Arts Consultant?
No CommentsSIL International helps artists with an interest in cross-cultural research to become Arts Consultants: people who work alongside local singers, actors, dancers, storytellers, and visual artists to … Continue Reading
Project Dance
No CommentsProject Dance (http://www.projectdance.com/) has just released its 2010 Recap Video, which offers a colorful peek into this unique movement to “positively impact culture through artistic integrity” and … Continue Reading
THE ARTIST’S WAY by Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan
1 CommentRecommended 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
5 CommentsReviewed 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
No CommentsRecommended 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
MY NAME IS ASHER LEV by Chaim Potok
No CommentsRecommended 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
No CommentsPaul 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
No CommentsMISSION: 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
1 CommentMission: 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
2 CommentsMission: 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
No CommentsMission: 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
1 CommentMission: 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
1 CommentMission: 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
No CommentsMission: 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)
No CommentsMission: 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
No CommentsMission:
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
1 CommentA 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”
1 CommentA New DVD Teaching Series on the Arts by StoneWorks International Director Colin Harbinson
Café Life
No CommentsOn 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
No CommentsSafina 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
No CommentsPaul 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
No CommentsOnce 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
No CommentsPaul 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!
No CommentsHelping 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
No CommentsMISSION: 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!
No CommentsHelping 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
1 CommentThe 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
No CommentsCommencement 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
1 CommentSeeking 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
2 CommentsBy 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
3 CommentsThe 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
No CommentsBy 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
No CommentsOn 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
No CommentsSafina 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
No CommentsPaul 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
No CommentsOnce 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
No CommentsPaul 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!
No CommentsHelping 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
No CommentsMISSION: 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!
No CommentsHelping 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
1 CommentThe 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
No CommentsCommencement 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
1 CommentSeeking 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
2 CommentsBy 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
3 CommentsThe 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
No CommentsBy 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
