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.
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