We’re now looking for artists and crafts-people (what is the right word for that?) for the affordable art show during the sojourn fall festival at the 930. This will be the third year and it’s always a good time. If you make stuff people might want to buy, fill out the online entry form on the930.org. Details there.
Richard Fudge, from down in Memphis, asked me to take part in a really cool project he’s started called ‘To Send a Prayer’. He’s mailing three journals around to Christian artists around the country and asking them to make one spread in the journal into a personal expression of prayer.
The picture above is my addition to the project. I came across a striking song lyric that inspired a prayer in me that inspired me to make this image. There is a Mount Eerie song ‘Lost Wisdom’ in which the writer has a mystical experience in nature. At one point the song sings, ‘I open the front door and the back door and let the wind blow through.’ For whatever reason this line really stuck with me. I didn’t even consider that he might be talking about a physical door. In my mind, the door in this line refers to a door to a human spirit. The doors are opened and the Wind comes through, the Pure Spirit. I hope this image conveys both an emptiness of the human spirit and the capacity for God to dwell within us.
I’m sure some people will read it as a t-shirt that doesn’t say anything, but that’s what I get for not putting any words on this spread.
To see other spreads from the project and to see if you can get involved, check out http://2sendaprayer.blogspot.com/
Richard Fudge has begun sending around two prayer journal sketchbooks for artists to make a spread of prayer-infused art and then mail on to the next artist. The project, which he’s calling ‘To Send a Prayer’ can be followed on its own blog – http://2sendaprayer.blogspot.com/. I believe I’m right in thinking that he’s happy to get more people involved so contact Richard through his blog (http://fudge-art.blogspot.com/)if you want to participate. I’m going to.
The project was inspired by another mail/sketchbook project called ‘Look at Book‘ which turned out fantastically though it was not about prayer like this one is.
On June 27, 2009 The Shotgun Fest returns to Germantown. It will be located at St. Therese and go on from Noon – 9:00. It’s a small neighborhood festival with music, food, and just hang out time with neighbors. This year they are also offering free booth space for artists and crafters. You might have to do some searching to figure out how to get involved because I don’t have the correct contact information unless you have a myspace. Here’s the shotgun fest myspace page.
The music schedule looks pretty good too:
| Line Up!
1:00- The City Ghost Afterparty @ Lisa’s Oak Street Lounge |
Newborn Lifeline is looking for artists who would like to participate in an upcoming fundraiser. They are casting the torsos of pregnant women and supplying those casts to artist for embellishment. The finished pieces will be auctioned off in June.
The medium is the artist’s choice (Paint, Clay, Plaster, Glass, Mosaic, Metal…the sky is the limit). The casts will be available to artists on or after April 20, 2009 and they will need the completed works returned to them no later than June 1, 2009.
If you would like to participate or you know an artist who would please contact Kathy at 502-648-9901 or by e-mail at Kathy@newbornlifeline.org.
For more information on the program visit www.yournewbornlifeline.com .
To see what others have done with casts like these visit http://www.proudbody.com/articles.asp?id=162
Sojourn Visual Arts is an arts group growing out of the ministry of Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY.
We want to equip the artists within our local church with the knowledge, skills, materials, and opportunities needed to create artwork that will express their faith, serve the church, and renew culture.
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