November 2009 Archives
Mountain Dulcimer Christmas CD
Mountain Dulcimerist Linda Sack, who performed this year at Space 38|39, has announced the release of her second CD, A Mountain Dulcimer Christmas. The music is entirely instrumental, with three kinds of dulcimers, percussion and melodic banjo.The release concert will be Friday, December 11, 2009 from 6 - 8 p.m. at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on Broadway in Nashville, TN. Thereafter, the CD will be available at www.lindasack.com and www.myspace.com $10.
The Frist Center is exhibiting the remarkable work of folk artist Thomas Hart Benton, and Linda will play three shows there, December 3, 10 and 11 from 6 - 8:00 p.m. Entry and parking are free. Among the paintings on exhibit is Benton's final work, which depicts a woman playing the mountain dulcimer. For more info, visit The Frist's web site.
Fan Mail from Babette's Feast
Dear BABETTE'S FEAST Company,
We absolutely LOVED it! A wonderful evening of titillating creativity...completely original and thought provoking. Thank you so much to the gracious (and tough!) door lady for getting
us in! Congratulations to the writer, Rose Courtney, who has a keen ear for dialogue and tight story telling, the very talented actors and the seamless ensemble work and whimsy hey brought to it, the genius of the ohhhh soooooo inventive Director Quin Gordon, the subtlety of the sound person who enriched the many moments with a rumble here, a tinkle of glass there (....even the sound of the candles blowing out!) the surprising resourcefulness of the producer who found that very original space and above all, the talent and brains of the "Founder of The Feast" Abbie Kileen!!!!! Can't wait to see it again! The film has always been a favorite of ours and this production was its' own thing!! We completely surrendered to it without a single solitary thought of the film! We LOVE that particular fact. Bravo All!
Puhleeeze include us on your mailing lists.
Sincerely,
Nora Mae Lyng
IAM Discussion Group Meeting in Atlanta
Wednesday, November 25th
@ 10:00 AM
Octane
1009-B Marietta Street NW
Atlanta, GA (MAP IT)
(From regional catalyst Joe Futral: )
"For the first meeting we can hammer out other ideas and/or times and frequency for getting together. As for other topics, I seem to always have something brewing my brain, so I doubt we will be at a loss of things to discuss. One thing I have been thinking about lately is a re-engagement that seems to need to occur between the public/community at large and art/artists also how to involve and encourage people to participate while encouraging and celebrating excellence, i.e. art is for everyone, but honour excellence."
Introducing IAM Readers Guild
GLOBAL BOOK CLUB AIMS TO INSPIRE EMPATHY
IAM Readers Guild to launch in January, featuring authors from around the world
NEW YORK, NY (November 16, 2009) – International Arts Movement will launch the IAM Readers Guild, a global book club featuring authors from Japan, England, the United States, India, and Italy, in January.
Each month, groups around the world will meet to discuss the book of the month, beginning with a list of questions that will be sent to all groups and welcoming spontaneous discussions as they arise. A member of each group will take notes and blog a brief summary of the group discussion after the meeting, allowing all the readers a wider experience of the book.
In his book Refractions: A Journey of Art, Faith and Culture, IAM Founder Makoto Fujimura writes, “Deeply engaged reading leads to perceptual awakening, stimulation of the core of the intuitive and experiential . . . What reading and writing can teach us is a deeper empathy that leads us to desire the best for others who are entirely different from us, and to long to communicate with them.” Inspired by Fujimura’s essay, IAM’s Programming Coordinator, Alissa Wilkinson, envisioned a platform to engage people globally around books that have proven themselves to be relevant cross-culturally.
“Becoming an engaged reader requires commitment and intellectual curiosity, but the rewards are great,” says Wilkinson. “The IAM Readers Guild is designed to allow readers to interact with others in their own community as well as the wider IAM global community, and to learn a ‘deeper empathy’ through experiencing great writing that wrestles with big ideas in many cultural contexts.”
The first book that the 2010 IAM Readers Guild will read is Silence, by Japanese author Shusaku Endo. The book is available in Japanese, English, Dutch and Swedish. Additional books on the list for 2010 include The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon, The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor, and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. Books by Wendell Berry, C.S. Lewis, Italo Calvino, Marilynne Robinson, Matthew B. Crawford, Chinua Achebe, Robert Clark and Annie Dillard will also be included.
For more information on joining the IAM Readers Guild or to connect with (or start) a local group in your area, visit www.IAMReadersGuild.com, where you can see the complete list of titles and available translations.
Soliloquies Opens Tomorrow Night
Opens Thursday November 12, 6:00-8:00 pm
Dillon Gallery
555 W. 25th Street, Chelsea
Click here for more info.
16th Annual Rob Mathes Christmas Concert
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Call for Participation: Reflections of Generosity2010 (Germany)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Reflections of Generosity 2010 (Germany)
Opening TBD - September 11, 2010
As soldiers and their families come to grips with ongoing deployments, the need for emotional and spiritual healing is greater than ever.
Reflections of Generosity: Toward Restoration and Peace is a traveling exhibition about the power of painting, sculpture, and even song to facilitate restoration through generosity, community, and beauty.
Artwork and performances will be shown that reflect the spirit of ongoing generosity demonstrated by the military. It will be dedicated to the memory of the heroes of 9-11 and the soldiers who have given their lives in recent conflicts.
In the spirit of the exhibit’s theme, there is no charge to participate. Submissions will be reviewed by a jury of artists.
For information about submitting your artwork, please contact:
Ron KelseyNonprofit Artist, Military Liaison for the Arts
ron.v.kelsey (at) us.army.mil
Call for Submissions: Picturing the Parables
Picturing the Parables
A CIVA Traveling Exhibition
A critical dimension of Jesus' earthly ministry was his ability to make powerful use of story and analogy. Beyond the iconography of Jesus' life and ministry, scenes from the parables are among the most potent images in art. From fifth-century Roman mosaics of Christ the Good Shepherd, to Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal painting, to Otto Dix's lithographs of the Ten Virgins, the parables of Christ serve both as a fount of inspiration for the artist and a rich source of contemplation for Christians around the world.
CIVA invites the submission of artwork for a new traveling exhibition entitled Picturing the Parables. In keeping with the nature of the parable format, this show will consist of artwork that speaks the several languages of our pluralistic, contemporary culture. Employing time-honored as well as non-traditional media, this show seeks to bring fresh perspectives to the familiar stories of Christ. Works submitted may vary from representational narratives to the more abstract. This exhibition will be accompanied by a CD containing written descriptions and biblical text on each work; artists' contact information; an essay on the show; and educational materials including an adult study guide and children's art projects.
Picturing the Parables is open to all artists. Works may be of any medium. Jury selections will be made from digital images for 2-D and 3-D works and 3-5 minute video clips for performance art. The quality of images submitted may influence the decision of the juror. Each artist may submit up to three pieces for consideration. Size and scope of works are limited because the show must travel; therefore very large works cannot be accommodated. Submissions from performance and/or installation formats must be made by high-quality video or photographic records (VHSor DVD are acceptable) and must be limited to select 3-5minute clips. All work selected must be available for as long as Picturing the Parables exhibit travels (approximately three years). Postmark deadline is March 1. Please email office@civa.org for further information.
Call for Submissions: Curse or Calling?
Curse or Calling?
A CIVA Traveling Exhibition
The topic of WORK elicits a range of responses including pleasure or pressure, calling or dread. Despite its more mundane associations, WORK (nevertheless) plays a pivotal role in current conversations pertaining to calling, vocation, occupation, and worship. As we reflect and respond to the work of God in our lives and world around us, our daily work begins to take-on meaning. Consider that liturgy means, "work of the people." Like liturgy, WORK is structured; it is built into the rhythms of life. Consider further that WORK was part of the original Creation. Notably, WORK is a gift given prior to The Fall. When God created Adam, he set him to work tending to God's garden and naming his creatures. Psalm 146 describes God as one who works--creating the world and its creatures, upholding justice, feeding the hungry, releasing prisoners, restoring sight to the blind, watching over strangers, and caring for orphans and widows. The apostle Paul encouraged the Thessalonian saints to use their gifts to accomplish God's WORK in the Church. WORK is not a duty but rather a response to God; one that John Calvin described as "desirable and delicious." The savory goodness of WORK is both God's doing and God's gifting. To savor WORK means to savor hope and the ability to impact our society in a meaningful way.
Curse or Calling? At Work in God's World invites artists to picture WORK in its many applications in the Christian experience--WORK within the Body of Christ, on the job, in the studio, in the church, in the field, in the home, and in the pages of Scripture--so that, together, we may delight in and respond to God's glory. Curse or Calling? At Work in God's World is open to all artists. Works may be of any medium. Jury selections will be made from digital images for 2-D and 3-D works, and 3 to 5 minute video clips for performance art. The quality of images submitted may influence the decision of the juror. Each artist may submit up to three pieces for consideration. Size and scope of works are limited because the show must travel and very large works cannot be accommodated. Submissions from performance and/or installation forms must be made by high-quality video or photographic records (VHS or DVD are acceptable) and must be limited to select 3 to 5 minute clips. All work selected must be available for exhibition for as long as Curse or Calling? travels (approximately three years).
Deadline for postmark is February 1, 2010. Please go to www.civa.org for more information on this call.
Call for Papers: Paris Symposium
History, Continuity, and Rupture:
Symposium on Christianity and Art History
Le Pavé d'Orsay, Paris, France
If the history of art and architecture has been one of both rupture and continuity, nowhere has this process of continuity and creativity been more evident than in the 2000-year history of Christianity and the visual arts. At times marked by religious conservatism, and at times by radical innovation, artists engaged in developing visual means of expressing Christian faith and doubt within various historical contexts have both embraced and transformed inherited thematic, iconographic, and formal elements. History, Continuity, Rupture will be held at Pavé d'Orsay located within blocks of the Musée d'Orsay. We seek 20-minute papers to be presented in French or English that represent new and publishable scholarship to address the ways in which such artistic initiatives have emerged from within particular cultural, historical, and religious moments, engaging in the reception and transformation of inherited thematic, iconographic, and/or formal elements. Symposium papers are intended for publication in English in a collected volume.
We are especially interested in papers which engage works of art in Paris collections. Paper proposals of no more than two pages double-spaced should be submitted along with a cover letter and c.v. to James Romaine (J-Romaine@bethel.edu) and Linda Stratford (LStratford@asbury.edu) and should include reference to methodological assumptions. The deadline for submission is December 1, 2009. Previously presented or published papers will be considered but should be indicated as such. Acceptance in the Symposium implies commitment to attend.
Linda Stratford, PhD, and James Romaine, PhD are the Symposium co-chairs
Refractions Reviewed in Bucknell Mag
Makoto Fujimura ’83
Refractions (NavPress)
In 2003, Makoto Fujimura, an internationally acclaimed artist and church leader, was appointed to the National Council on the Arts. This came as he continued to struggle with the aftershock of Sept.11, 2001. He began a practice of Saturday morning reflective writing through which he reached for the healing power of art to re-humanize a shattered world. His book Refractions, richly illustrated with color plates of his and other artists’ work, collects many of these very readable, contemplative essays that are an amalgam of art criticism, philosophy and spiritual journey. “Theologically speaking,” he writes, “we are all living in the ashes of Ground Zero, in our own Waste Land. But we carry the dust of Eden in our DNA."
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