The Art of Craft (or the Trouble with Terminology): Part II
~ by Jenn Craft and Anna Blanch In part I of this post, we looked briefly at the way in which subsuming craft into…
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The Art of Craft (or the Trouble with Terminology): Part I
~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…
Read MoreThe Art of Recycling in Southern Folk Traditions
Southern self-taught art is one of my favorite art traditions. This may be because I’m Southern, but it’s also because it brings up some…
Read MoreArt and Community: Belonging in Tradition
The arts can be understood as “communal” or “expressions of community” in many ways. In this post, I wanted to reflect briefly on the…
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The Melody of Faith: Theology in an Orthodox Key- A Review
A Review of The Melody of Faith: Theology in an Orthodox Key by Vigen Guroian (Eerdmans, 2010) In this book, Guroian presents his readers…
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An Introduction to the Quilts of Gee’s Bend
Last week, when I walked into the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective to meet Mary Ann Pettway, the manager of the collective, I was immediately…
Read MoreCelebrating the light of Christmas
“God from God, Light from Light… came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,…
Read MoreGiving Thanks through Literature: Wendell Berry
One of the best things about a good piece of literature is its ability to construct a whole world, a world where you can…
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Divine Command and Human Making—or, What Scripture Might Tell Us about a “Christian Understanding of the Arts”
Art is one of those things that Christians have had a hard time coming to terms with in light of the {lack of} attention…
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