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.
Last summer, Comment magazine publishing partner Steven Garber wrote a powerful introduction to a new idea: making peace with proximate justice.
No one will admire us for not padding our dockets, or hold parades because we held to the spirit, and not just the letter, of convoluted tax or securities provisions.
Proximate justice recognizes the tradeoffs that occur in this imperfect world, and allows us to respond with compassion and justice.
At the individual and community levels, I can accept that some movement in the direction of health is better than no movement. I am also hoping to be an agent of transformation in my nation’s discussion and reformulation of its health care system. Now there’s an area where cynicism and discouragement are the norm!
