~James McCullough and Wes Vander Lugt Defining art is an elusive task. In some ways, seeking to understand art is analogous to understanding God. In What Good are the Arts?, a book we are exploring next week on Transpositions, John…
An interview with Dan Thompson, founder of Artists and Makers – an initiative which works with local authorities and real estate agents to make empty shop and other spaces available as exhibition and studio spaces for artists across the UK.…
Any reader interested in the intersection of art and theology will find this book a helpful and engaging read. And while the reader may be left at times asking for more, it does not disappoint in its ability to raise questions about how the arts are significant to theology, community, and spiritual life. Even if the reader does not agree...
Last week, Relevant Magazine posted 10 Creativity Tips from Donald Miller. I don’t typically go in for the “self-help-generate-creative-new-ideas” genre, but I was pleased to find that Miller’s tips avoided banal suggestions like ‘take longer showers’ or ‘keep a notebook…
JR is a semi-anonymous artist who has recently won the TED prize for his large scale photographic installations. He has worked in a variety of places all over the world including Brazil, Israel-Palestine, Africa, and many others. The TED website…
Field of Dreams?: Contemporary Explorations at the Interface, between Religion and Popular Culture 5-7 May 2011 Sarum College, Salisbury Why might TV be as significant as Bach? How are faith communities to deal with what people actually do with the…
~ by Jenn Craft and Anna Blanch In part I of this post, we looked briefly at the way in which subsuming craft into a definition of art or imbuing craft with a lesser aesthetic value is problematic. This post…
~by Jenn Craft and Anna Blanch Wes Vander Lugt and James McCullough’s post on The Craft of Art and all the comments that followed inspired us to think and write about the relationship of “art” and “craft” from a slightly…
Gerald A. Arbuckle, Culture, Inculturation, and Theologians: A Postmodern Critique (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2010). What do Christians means when we talk about contextualization and inculturation? What is involved in this process? In this book, Gerald Arbuckle, co-director of Refounding and…