MontyAt first glance, Monty was one of the most physically unattractive people I had ever seen.It was at the end of sultry summer day in Edmonton, Alberta and I was exhausted and hungry, having spent the bulk of the afternoon pounding the pavement and speaking with...
In April 1994, one hundred days of killing began that left nearly one million Rwandans dead at the hands of their friends and neighbors. Twelve years later, Laura Waters Hinson went to Rwanda to make a film about an extraordinary reconciliation ministry.
There is so much more to cities than just a thriving economy, including a vibrant arts economy and artistic class. What we should aspire to and seek to achieve for the city is shalom, not Chanel.
I “make” books to try to invite people to live differently. As a philosopher, I try to invite people to experience the world differently by taking just a bit of time to step back out of our everyday absorption and involvement with the world in order to think about it a little bit.
This piece is composed of transformed disposed remnants of material life, created first individually and then composed into a line. Through age-old techniques, such as embroidery, each little "impermanent sculpture" captures a sense of detail, craftsmanship and...
In the music marketplace, whatever sells, becomes good. In the face of such conditions, how does one become a composer?
I work with others to run a shop called World Fare that helps people in poor communities around the world by selling things they make and grow, like baskets and jewelry and coffee. I work with students at Calvin College on watching movies and listening to music with God in mind.
Choral Composition I was influenced by the work of the great abstract expressionist Wassily Kandinsky and his most intriguing and complex piece Composition VII. Kandinsky believes that artists are prophets of the modern age and that creating art is an "internal...
Two weeks ago, an artists’ bungalow in New York buzzed with a group of artists and “creative catalysts,” discussing how every person can stand up for and support the arts. Today in Comment: three takeaway suggestions for the Christian nurturing of art.
I teach students how computers work, how to program them, and how they ought to be used responsibly.
The life of Christ shows us that the way outward is inward.
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