The Art Monastery: Monastic Technologies [Part Two]
Nathan Rosquist continues his discussion of ‘open-source monasticism’ by sharing specific monastic ‘technologies’ used in the Art Monastery Project.
A journal of theology, imagination, and the arts.
The Art Monastery: Open-Source Monasticism [Part One]
Nathan Rosquist, founder of the Art Monastery San Francisco, talks about using both Western and Eastern monasticism as ‘open-source software’ for artistic creation.
Brush Stroked Incense: How Painting and Monks Taught Me to Pray
Preston Yancey, an incoming MLitt student in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, offers a meditation on how the discipline of the Divine Office deepened his experience of painting as prayer.
The Artist Begins Again and Again
Christine Valters Paintner, a Benedictine oblate and online Abbess of Abbey of the Arts, shares wisdom for artists from the Desert Fathers and the Benedictine tradition.
Art & Monasticism Symposium
Next week, Transpositions will be hosting an online symposium on Art and Monasticism. Historically, monasticism has been a fertile field for the cultivation of the visual arts, especially icons, as well as musical compositions, especially those designed to help with the…
Beauty as Love: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theological Aesthetics
According to Hans Urs von Balthasar, in The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics, vol. 1, Seeing the Form, if theological aesthetics is about anything it is about beauty, and if beauty is about anything in particular it is…
Engaging Art Prize: Two Vignettes [Part Three]
Editor’s Note: Transpositions is currently featuring a 3-part series on Art Prize by guest contributor, Chris Brewer. Brewer started with an introduction to the competition (published 11 April), followed by his suggestion of a storied theology of the arts as a way by which to…
Migrations: Journeys into British Art
The concept of migration always sparks a reaction. On the one hand, it conjures up images of exotic cultures, the excitement of travel or the evocative poignancy of exile. On the other, it presses public panic buttons as the Other…
Call for Papers: Arts and Ethics, October 18-19, 2012
Call for Papers: Arts and Ethics, October 18-19, 2012 The 6th Verge Conference at the School of the Arts, Media + Culture Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada There is long history surrounding the relationship between the arts and…