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Resources and organizations to be aware of
Affirmation Arts | Rehumanizing an emerging arts community
Recently renovated Affirmation Arts opened on New York's west side in 2008. Housing a gallery, studios, and offices, the building provides an anchor to the up-and-coming arts neighborhood.
Art House America | Cultivating Creative Community for the Common Good
Art House America was founded with the vision of nurturing creative artists and anyone looking to explore an artful, faithful life.
Artisan | Prayer & worship
A worship and prayer community for people in the creative arts.
ARTnews | The oldest, most widely-read arts magazine in the world.
Arts & Entertainment Ministries |
An evangelical Christian ministry dedicated to providing top quality biblical education to artists, creative professionals and academics in the areas of art, faith, media, and culture.
Backstage
News, casting information, and acting advice for theater, television, and film professionals.
By/For Project | Sacred worship art by the church, for the church.
By/For desires to strengthen ties between artists and their worship communities, so that both can grow together. Patronage of the arts is an ancient idea, and By/For thinks it can be a modern one too. Churches can support artists in their communities and reclaim their historic role as patrons of the arts. Worship is a gift freely given. By/For projects are licensed under Creative Commons, so churches can freely use the art in worship and other artists can adapt and extend it. Removing profit motives can enrich both art and worship. By/For believes the local church can strengthen and support fellow worshippers down the street, across town, and over oceans. Using the Internet and digital media, By/For helps churches and artists share sacred art across borders.
Cardus | A Cultural Think Tank
Cardus is a think tank: an ideas lab for social innovation. We build intellectual capacity, social networks and policy alternatives to sustain a wide range of cultural entrepreneurs for the renewal of North American social architecture. Our team members are scattered across Canada and the US. The home base for Cardus is the city of Hamilton.
Church + Art Network | Thoughts on church and art
Church + Art Network is a network of information and supportive relationships for arts leaders and others who are thinking and working at the intersection of faith and the arts.
CIVA | Christians in the Visual Arts
Christians in the Visual Arts exists to explore and nurture the relationship between the visual arts and the Christian faith. Founded in 1979, the organization’s longstanding vision is to help artists, arts pastors, collectors, critics, designers, historians, and videographers explore the profound relationship between art and faith. With this as a point of beginning, CIVA’s broad range of conferences, exhibits, programs, and publications exists to help the art and faith movement flourish both in the Church and in culture.
Etsy | Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade.
Etsy enables people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. They are building a new economy and presenting a better choice for artists and craftspeople to buy and sell their work.
FilmFestivals.com
An exhaustive list of film festivals worldwide.
Fractured Atlas | Fiscal sponsorship for creatives.
Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Our programs and services facilitate the creation of art by offering vital support to the artists who produce it. We help artists and arts organizations function more effectively as businesses by providing access to funding, healthcare, education, and more, all in a context that honors their individuality and independent spirit. By nurturing today's talented but underrepresented voices, we hope to foster a dynamic and diverse cultural landscape of tomorrow.
Glen Workshop | East & West
Writing classes. Art classes. A seminar on arts and aesthetics. A retreat option. The Glen Workshop combines an intensive learning experience with a lively festival of the arts.
Harrison Center for the Arts | Indianapolis
The Harrison Center for the Arts is a powerful force for cultural development in Indianapolis and a model for community arts, education, and urban revitalization programs across America, addressing community problems with cultural solutions: art, music, education, and grassroots activism and cultivating emerging art patrons by redefining the boundaries of artist and audience: everyone is part of the art.
Hearts Home | A movement of compassion.
Heart’s Home is an international Catholic non-profit organization founded in 1990 by Rev. Thierry de Roucy. They are a global network of volunteers who assist and form deep personal bonds with troubled, disadvantaged and socially isolated individuals in some of the world’s most desperate areas. Heart’s Home is active on five continents, with 41 centers in 21 countries.
Heart’s Home also runs the International Center for a Culture of Compassion (ICCC) seminar and retreat facility in Woodbourne, NY. A venue for events such as conferences, art seminars, concerts, exhibitions and spiritual retreats, the ICCC seeks to inculcate Heart’s Home’s message of compassion into society through a variety of cultural pathways.
Hollywood Prayer Network | Thoughtfully praying for professionals in Hollywood
Image Journal | Literary Journal, Writing Resources, and Visual Art Art
Living as we do in a fragmented society, the need for cultural renewal is greater than at any time in our history. Despite the rise of secularism, America remains a religious nation, and it is ultimately in religious vision that healing and renewal are to be found. Image speaks with equal force and relevance to the secular culture and to the church. By finding fresh ways for the imagination to embody religious truth and religious experience, Image challenges Christians and non-Christians alike.
Kickstarter | Fundraising for creative projects
Kickstarter is the largest funding platform for creative projects in the world.
Kindlings | Muse, Hearth, Fest
The Kindlings is a movement inspired by C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers and a diverse group of gadflies and friends called “The Inklings,” who met in an Oxford pub each week for lively conversation and friendly disputation. We think such discourse should be intelligent, imaginative and hospitable.
Paste Magazine | Signs of Life in Music, Film, and Culture
With two National Magazine Award nominations for general excellence, dozens of Plug, Folio and Gamma Awards and endorsements from folks like USA Today, The NY Daily News and the Wall Street Journal, who calls Paste “the finest among American music titles” we are very proud of our legacy in print, which continues on our website, PasteMagazine.com.
Poets & Writers | Articles and Opportunities for Poets and Writers
Since it was founded in 1970, Poets & Writers, Inc., has grown to become the nation’s largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers. Our mission? To foster the professional development of poets and writers, to promote communication throughout the literary community, and to help create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public.
Publishers Weekly
Publishing leading source for industry news and reviews
Socrates in the City | "The unexamined life is not worth living."
The Greek philosopher Socrates famously said that "the unexamined life is not worth living." Taking this as a starting point, Eric Metaxas thought it would be valuable to create a forum that might encourage busy and successful professionals in thinking about the bigger questions in life. Thus Socrates In The City: Conversations on the Examined Life was born. Every month or so Socrates In The City sponsors an event in which people can begin a dialogue on "Life, God, and other small topics" by hearing a notable thinker and writer such as Dr. Francis Collins, Sir John Polkinghorne, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, N.T. Wright, Os Guinness, Peter Kreeft, or George Weigel.
Q | Events, Videos and Articles
Q was birthed out of Gabe Lyons’ vision to see Christians, especially leaders, recover a vision for their historic responsibility to renew and restore cultures. Inspired by Chuck Colson’s statement, “Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals,” Gabe set out to reintroduce Christians to what had seemed missing in recent decades from an American expression of Christian faithfulness; valuing both personal and cultural renewal, not one over the other. Re-educating Christians to this orthodox and unifying concept has become central to the vision of Q.
Variety
Entertainment news & reviews of films, film festivals, and more.
Via Affirmativa | An international movement of Art Makers
An international movement of Art Makers whose aim is to rehumanize the world through the making of art by celebrating goodness, truth and beauty, deepening our callings at the intersection of faith and art, integrating our lives in community in the context of the Kingdom of God, and affirming expressions of creative gifts through the making of art.
Washington Institute | Faith, Vocation, Culture
The Washington Institute exists to encourage the recovery of the integral relationship of faith to vocation to the responsible engagement of the culture across the country and beyond.
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