Yesterday, Jenn Craft asked, ‘If you are a practicing artist, how might a deepened relationship to place affect your work?’ This question is becoming increasingly important to members of the American theatre community. How important is it that a theatre…
Because my research deals with the relationship of art to theological issues regarding place and space, I come across a lot of artists who integrate issues of place and spirituality into their work. In this post, I wanted to introduce…
Over the last couple of months we’ve occasionally shared information about retreats or summer schools that might be of interest in 2011, like this one in Devon and this one in Vancouver. David O. Taylor (his edited collection For the…
In a previous post, I explored the question of whether or not we, as humans created in the image of God, are created for beautiful spaces. Helpful dialogue ensued, particularly around how this relates to the God who is present…
I stumbled across London-based Julie Cockburn’s “photography” the other day, and I found myself spellbound. There is something about her images that is deeply mysterious, haunting and utterly intriguing. Many of Cockburn’s images are manipulated, found photographs. Nearly all of…
~By James McCullough and Wes Vander Lugt In two previous posts, we articulated an understanding of art as a communicative creation involving three interwoven strands. First, we suggested that art involves craft, the skill and style distinguishing art from other…
A few months ago, Bob Covolo suggested we consider fashion to be a legitimate form of theological investigation – just as we examine our relationship to food from a theological lens, so may we examine our relationship to the clothing…
Regent College in Vancouver, BC offers a tremendous range of one or two week courses during their summer session. Classes are offered with some of the foremost evangelical scholars of our day – like Alister McGrath, Bruce Waltke, Marva Dawn and…
We devoted all of last week to reviewing John Carey’s book What Good Are The Arts?. His polemical and very entertaining prose opened up a fruitful space for dialogue about important philosophical questions concerning the arts. In particular, Carey raises two…