Embracing the Gift
Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) is holding an awesome conference called "Embracing the Gift" from June 16-18, 2005 at Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California. Dr. William Dryness, author of Visual Faith will be speaking and Cheryl Isaacson, a B L A N K contributor, will be conducting a workshop "Visual Artists and the Emerging Church - A View from the Trenches." I've copied the conference details from the CIVA site for your convenience.
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Artists of faith have been graced with an abundance of GIFTS: God's creation and the physical world, creativity and VISION, materials and media, fellowship and FAITH, and the greatest gift of all, the gift of Christ. During this 25th anniversary conference, CIVA embraces and celebrates these gifts.
Christians in the Visual Arts, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, is heir to a long and rich tradition. Though the vocation of the artist within the Church has been questioned in recent history, the artist was highly valued in earlier centuries. Christian artists may have been marginalized in the art world by many cultural critics, but they are impacting both the Church and the culture as they live out both their faith and their vision. Where there once existed a gulf of misunderstanding, a bridge of growing trust and mutuality is now emerging. Christian artists are on the threshold of unprecedented opportunities.
In a new millennium, with vastly different media at our fingertips, what exactly is the place of the Christian artist? Are artists salt and light in the secular culture? Are we an alternate voice of God's revelation in the established Church? Do we live in a tension between the culture and the Church?
At the core of this celebration will be an evaluation of the current state of the arts with a focus on the ways that New Media and the Moving Image can speak to our contemporary culture in relevant and challenging ways.
Please join CIVA in celebrating the resurgent presence of Christians in the Visual Arts. As we engage both the Church and the world afresh through our art, we look to the past for its undeniable contributions, the present for its newness and possibility, and to the future with expectation.
This biennial CIVA Conference continues the tradition of notable and exciting plenary sessions and speakers who appeal to the various interests of CIVA members. Firmly planting the discussion within the history of art stemming from the Christian faith will be Father Richard Vosko, a designer and consultant for worship environments since 1970. His most notable recent project is the liturgical design of the Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in Los Angeles. Our next speaker is Dr. Daniel Siedell, curator of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Siedell's recent scholarship reflects on the practice of art and religion and the nature of belief and unbelief. Additional plenary sessions will consist of small panels of artists, filmmakers, critics, curators, and theologians. Notable speakers for these sessions include L.A. artist Lynn Aldrich, theologians Scott Young and William Dyrness.
In addition to CIVA's most popular event, the nightly Late Late Show, which allows dozens of artists a chance to share their work with the CIVA membership, this Conference will have a separate time for Film and Video Screenings. Don't forget to bring your slides or digital presentations.
Anyone can exhibit at CIVA's Walk-In Show, so bring any of your work that can travel. This year's curator for the continually influential CIVA Juried Show will be James Stambaugh, former Director of the Billy Graham Museum in Wheaton, Illinois. A prospectus is included in the conference brochure.
SPEAKERS
Father Richard Vosko
Richard Stephen Vosko received the 2003 Georgetown Center for Liturgy Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Liturgical Life of the American Church. In 1994 he was the recipient of the Elbert Conover Award given by IFRAA-AIA for his work in religious art and architecture. A priest of the Diocese of Albany, NY, Vosko has been working throughout the United States and Canada as a designer and consultant for worship environments since 1970.
A frequent speaker and author on topics dealing with the environment for worship, he wrote "Designing Future Worship Spaces" (Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago, IL, 1996). The title of his next book to be published in 2005 by Liturgical Press is "God's House Is Our House."
Dr. Daniel Siedell
Daniel A. Siedell is curator of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, where he has curated modern and contemporary art exhibitions since 1996. He is also adjunct faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has an M.A. in art history, criticism, and theory from SUNY-Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art from The University of Iowa. His research has appeared in Art Criticism, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Curator: A Museum Journal, and Journal of Modern Literature. He is currently at work on a book manuscript, "An Excavation of Tenth Street: Essays on the Historiography of the New York School." He also writes on Christianity and contemporary art and has published essays in Christian Scholar's Review and Books & Culture.
Lynn Aldrich
Known for transforming ordinary materials such as tee shirts, lampshades, garden hoses, plastic siding and sponges into physical and conceptual conundrums, Lynn Aldrich has recently embraced more overtly philosophical and theological themes. Her interest in the possibility of re-engaging contemporary art with the sacred has led to larger-scaled sculptural works that have nevertheless lost none of their sense of whimsy and wonder. Aldrich's works employ found materials in ways that do not transform so much as manipulate them-through, for example, the accumulation, repetition or juxtaposition of like objects-so as to reveal something essential about their nature.
In addition to Aldrich's presentation, this plenary session will explore the work of Los Angeles based artist Tim Hawkinson. Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural installations through simple means, usually with common or store-bought materials. This brings to these familiar and accessible materials a sense of inventiveness that inspires surprise, awe, and wonder. Hawkinson has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including the Venice Biennale (1999), MASS MoCA (2000), the Whitney Biennial (2002), and the 2003 Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C. The Whitney Museum of American Art presents two decades of Hawinkson's work in the artist's first major museum survey, opening at the Whitney Museum in February 2005 and traveling to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in June 2005.
M. A. Greenstein
M. A. Greenstein is a Los Angeles-based curator, art theorist and critic who writes on the idiosyncratic, the beautiful and the grotesque in contemporary world art and performance. Ms. Greenstein is currently on faculty at Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art and Design, and the Claremont Colleges and works as a contributing editor to World Art Magazine and Asian Art News.
Bill Dyrness
William Dyrness is professor of theology and culture and founding member of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary. Dyrness is a member of the CIVA Board. His most recent book is Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Laurel Gasque
Laurel Gasque is the author of Art & the Christian Mind: The Life and Work of H. R. Rookmaaker (forthcoming, Crossway), contributing editor of Radix, consulting editor for Christian History and Biography, and former member of the board of CIVA.
Scott Young
Rev. Scott Young is the Chair and Co-Founder of the City of the Angels Film Festival. He is the director of Faculty Relations for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the Southern California region. Scott is an instructor at Fuller Theological Seminary and Biola University. He served on the ecumenical jury at the Berlin International Film Festival and is active in religion and arts projects. He is the director of the "Soul of Los Angeles" photographic exhibit, a project of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California.
WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
The workshops for this year's Conference represent the wide range of interests, practices, and beliefs of the CIVA membership. Whether you are an artist, historian, clergy, critic or collector, a series of seminars is being developed to educate, inspire and challenge. In particular, we are offering an opportunity for artists, scholars and theologians to dialogue in sessions held during regular workshop time periods. Bring a slide portfolio or smaller, portable work for this as well, as there are critique sessions for a variety of media.
WORKSHOPS INCLUDE:
CIVA SCHOLARS & ACADEMIC SESSIONS
Religious Art/Artful Religion: Mediating Theory & Practice
With Lisa De Boer, Westmont College
Christian Art in the 20th Century
With Patricia Pongracz, Museum of Biblical Art
The Art of Collaboration
With Dan Callis and Dr. Richard Flory
Memorial
With Ken Steinbach, Bethel University
OPEN CONVERSATIONS WITH PLENARY PRESENTERS
Session I… Father Richard Vosko
Session II… Lynn Aldrich, Bill Dyrness and M.A. Greenstein
Session III… Emerging Artists
Session IV… Dr. Daniel Siedell
Session V… Filmmakers & Film Critics with Scott Young
STUDIO SESSIONS
Bookmaking and Letter Press Workshop
With Rachelle Chwang
Traditional Painting Techniques
With David Hancock
Art and Healing
With Melanie Weaver
Non-Toxic Printmaking
With Matt Ulrich
Figure Drawing Workshop
With Guy Kinnear
PRACTICAL SESSIONS
Visual Artists and the Emerging Church - a view from the trenches
With Cheryl Isaacson
Tools for Chairs: Finding Funds, Faculty & Facilities
With Wayne Roosa, Bill Dyrness, and Susan Ney
How to Move Art from the Studio to a Gallery
With Bill Catling
ARTS & WORSHIP SESSIONS
Forming a Creative Community-Building a Visual Arts Ministry Leader
Christene Sloan (Visual Arts Director Coast Hills Community Church)
The Formation of Video for Liturgical Use-Behind the Scenes of the 2005 CIVA Conference Worship Services
Kim Garza, Calvin Institute of Worship & the Arts funded grant
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
3:00-8:00 PM EARLY REGISTRATION for those participating in tours
Thursday, June 16th, 2005
10-4 PM REGISTRATION
10-4 PM TOURS
4:00-5:30 PM EXHIBITIONS OPEN
5:30-7:00 PM SUPPER
7:00-8:00 PM WELCOMES & NEW CIVA VIDEO
8:00-9:15 PM Father Richard Vosko
9:30-Midnight LATE, LATE SHOW
9:30-10:00 PM EVENING WORSHIP--Orthodox service
Friday, June 17th, 2005
7:00-9:00 AM BREAKFAST
8:00-8:30 AM WORSHIP--Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts
9:00-10:30AM Tim Hawkinson & Lynn Aldrich: 21st Century Role Models For Artists of Faith
10:30-11:00 AM BREAK with refreshments
11:00-Noon SESSION 3A
CIVASILVER: 25 Emerging Artists Project
SESSION 3B
The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Hans Rookmaaker
Noon-1:30 PM LUNCH
1:30-2:30 PM ROUND 1 WORKSHOPS -
2:30-3:00 PM BREAK
3:00-4:00 PM ROUND 2 WORKSHOPS -
3:00-6:00 PM STUDIO WORKSHOPS -
4:00-6:00 PM FILM SCREENINGS
FREE TIME
5:30-7:00 PM SUPPER
7:45-10:00 PM INSTALLATION EXHIBITION
(featuring new media works by over 25 artists)
9:30-10:00 PM WORSHIP--Catholic Mass
10:00-12:30 AM LATE, LATE SHOW
Saturday, June 18th, 2005
7:00-9:00 AM BREAKFAST
8:00-8:30 AM WORSHIP--Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts
9:00-10:00 AM Dr. Daniel Siedell
10:00-10:30AM BREAK with refreshments
10:30-NOON Film Group
Noon-1:30 PM LUNCH
1:30-2:30 PM CIVA MEMBERS' MEETING
2:30-3:00 PM BREAK
3:00-4:00 PM ROUND 3 WORKSHOPS -
3:00-6:00 PM STUDIO WORKSHOPS -
4:00-6:00 PM FILM SCREENINGS
CIVA NETWORK GROUP MEETINGS
FREE TIME
6:00-7:30 PM OUTDOOR MEXICAN FIESTA
7:30-8:30 PM Reflections on CIVA Then and Now
8:30-9:00 PM CIVA COMISSIONING SERVICE
9:00-10:00 PM SILVER ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
10:00-12:30 AM LATE, LATE SHOW
A registration brochure will be sent to all current CIVA members in early March. On-line will be available in mid-March. Contact the CIVA Office for more details.
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Artists of faith have been graced with an abundance of GIFTS: God's creation and the physical world, creativity and VISION, materials and media, fellowship and FAITH, and the greatest gift of all, the gift of Christ. During this 25th anniversary conference, CIVA embraces and celebrates these gifts.
Christians in the Visual Arts, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, is heir to a long and rich tradition. Though the vocation of the artist within the Church has been questioned in recent history, the artist was highly valued in earlier centuries. Christian artists may have been marginalized in the art world by many cultural critics, but they are impacting both the Church and the culture as they live out both their faith and their vision. Where there once existed a gulf of misunderstanding, a bridge of growing trust and mutuality is now emerging. Christian artists are on the threshold of unprecedented opportunities.
In a new millennium, with vastly different media at our fingertips, what exactly is the place of the Christian artist? Are artists salt and light in the secular culture? Are we an alternate voice of God's revelation in the established Church? Do we live in a tension between the culture and the Church?
At the core of this celebration will be an evaluation of the current state of the arts with a focus on the ways that New Media and the Moving Image can speak to our contemporary culture in relevant and challenging ways.
Please join CIVA in celebrating the resurgent presence of Christians in the Visual Arts. As we engage both the Church and the world afresh through our art, we look to the past for its undeniable contributions, the present for its newness and possibility, and to the future with expectation.
This biennial CIVA Conference continues the tradition of notable and exciting plenary sessions and speakers who appeal to the various interests of CIVA members. Firmly planting the discussion within the history of art stemming from the Christian faith will be Father Richard Vosko, a designer and consultant for worship environments since 1970. His most notable recent project is the liturgical design of the Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in Los Angeles. Our next speaker is Dr. Daniel Siedell, curator of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Siedell's recent scholarship reflects on the practice of art and religion and the nature of belief and unbelief. Additional plenary sessions will consist of small panels of artists, filmmakers, critics, curators, and theologians. Notable speakers for these sessions include L.A. artist Lynn Aldrich, theologians Scott Young and William Dyrness.
In addition to CIVA's most popular event, the nightly Late Late Show, which allows dozens of artists a chance to share their work with the CIVA membership, this Conference will have a separate time for Film and Video Screenings. Don't forget to bring your slides or digital presentations.
Anyone can exhibit at CIVA's Walk-In Show, so bring any of your work that can travel. This year's curator for the continually influential CIVA Juried Show will be James Stambaugh, former Director of the Billy Graham Museum in Wheaton, Illinois. A prospectus is included in the conference brochure.
SPEAKERS
Father Richard Vosko
Richard Stephen Vosko received the 2003 Georgetown Center for Liturgy Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Liturgical Life of the American Church. In 1994 he was the recipient of the Elbert Conover Award given by IFRAA-AIA for his work in religious art and architecture. A priest of the Diocese of Albany, NY, Vosko has been working throughout the United States and Canada as a designer and consultant for worship environments since 1970.
A frequent speaker and author on topics dealing with the environment for worship, he wrote "Designing Future Worship Spaces" (Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago, IL, 1996). The title of his next book to be published in 2005 by Liturgical Press is "God's House Is Our House."
Dr. Daniel Siedell
Daniel A. Siedell is curator of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, where he has curated modern and contemporary art exhibitions since 1996. He is also adjunct faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has an M.A. in art history, criticism, and theory from SUNY-Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in modern and contemporary art from The University of Iowa. His research has appeared in Art Criticism, Journal of Aesthetic Education, Curator: A Museum Journal, and Journal of Modern Literature. He is currently at work on a book manuscript, "An Excavation of Tenth Street: Essays on the Historiography of the New York School." He also writes on Christianity and contemporary art and has published essays in Christian Scholar's Review and Books & Culture.
Lynn Aldrich
Known for transforming ordinary materials such as tee shirts, lampshades, garden hoses, plastic siding and sponges into physical and conceptual conundrums, Lynn Aldrich has recently embraced more overtly philosophical and theological themes. Her interest in the possibility of re-engaging contemporary art with the sacred has led to larger-scaled sculptural works that have nevertheless lost none of their sense of whimsy and wonder. Aldrich's works employ found materials in ways that do not transform so much as manipulate them-through, for example, the accumulation, repetition or juxtaposition of like objects-so as to reveal something essential about their nature.
In addition to Aldrich's presentation, this plenary session will explore the work of Los Angeles based artist Tim Hawkinson. Hawkinson is renowned for creating complex sculptural installations through simple means, usually with common or store-bought materials. This brings to these familiar and accessible materials a sense of inventiveness that inspires surprise, awe, and wonder. Hawkinson has participated in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including the Venice Biennale (1999), MASS MoCA (2000), the Whitney Biennial (2002), and the 2003 Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C. The Whitney Museum of American Art presents two decades of Hawinkson's work in the artist's first major museum survey, opening at the Whitney Museum in February 2005 and traveling to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in June 2005.
M. A. Greenstein
M. A. Greenstein is a Los Angeles-based curator, art theorist and critic who writes on the idiosyncratic, the beautiful and the grotesque in contemporary world art and performance. Ms. Greenstein is currently on faculty at Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art and Design, and the Claremont Colleges and works as a contributing editor to World Art Magazine and Asian Art News.
Bill Dyrness
William Dyrness is professor of theology and culture and founding member of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary. Dyrness is a member of the CIVA Board. His most recent book is Reformed Theology and Visual Culture: The Protestant Imagination from Calvin to Edwards (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Laurel Gasque
Laurel Gasque is the author of Art & the Christian Mind: The Life and Work of H. R. Rookmaaker (forthcoming, Crossway), contributing editor of Radix, consulting editor for Christian History and Biography, and former member of the board of CIVA.
Scott Young
Rev. Scott Young is the Chair and Co-Founder of the City of the Angels Film Festival. He is the director of Faculty Relations for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in the Southern California region. Scott is an instructor at Fuller Theological Seminary and Biola University. He served on the ecumenical jury at the Berlin International Film Festival and is active in religion and arts projects. He is the director of the "Soul of Los Angeles" photographic exhibit, a project of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California.
WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
The workshops for this year's Conference represent the wide range of interests, practices, and beliefs of the CIVA membership. Whether you are an artist, historian, clergy, critic or collector, a series of seminars is being developed to educate, inspire and challenge. In particular, we are offering an opportunity for artists, scholars and theologians to dialogue in sessions held during regular workshop time periods. Bring a slide portfolio or smaller, portable work for this as well, as there are critique sessions for a variety of media.
WORKSHOPS INCLUDE:
CIVA SCHOLARS & ACADEMIC SESSIONS
Religious Art/Artful Religion: Mediating Theory & Practice
With Lisa De Boer, Westmont College
Christian Art in the 20th Century
With Patricia Pongracz, Museum of Biblical Art
The Art of Collaboration
With Dan Callis and Dr. Richard Flory
Memorial
With Ken Steinbach, Bethel University
OPEN CONVERSATIONS WITH PLENARY PRESENTERS
Session I… Father Richard Vosko
Session II… Lynn Aldrich, Bill Dyrness and M.A. Greenstein
Session III… Emerging Artists
Session IV… Dr. Daniel Siedell
Session V… Filmmakers & Film Critics with Scott Young
STUDIO SESSIONS
Bookmaking and Letter Press Workshop
With Rachelle Chwang
Traditional Painting Techniques
With David Hancock
Art and Healing
With Melanie Weaver
Non-Toxic Printmaking
With Matt Ulrich
Figure Drawing Workshop
With Guy Kinnear
PRACTICAL SESSIONS
Visual Artists and the Emerging Church - a view from the trenches
With Cheryl Isaacson
Tools for Chairs: Finding Funds, Faculty & Facilities
With Wayne Roosa, Bill Dyrness, and Susan Ney
How to Move Art from the Studio to a Gallery
With Bill Catling
ARTS & WORSHIP SESSIONS
Forming a Creative Community-Building a Visual Arts Ministry Leader
Christene Sloan (Visual Arts Director Coast Hills Community Church)
The Formation of Video for Liturgical Use-Behind the Scenes of the 2005 CIVA Conference Worship Services
Kim Garza, Calvin Institute of Worship & the Arts funded grant
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Wednesday, June 15th, 2005
3:00-8:00 PM EARLY REGISTRATION for those participating in tours
Thursday, June 16th, 2005
10-4 PM REGISTRATION
10-4 PM TOURS
4:00-5:30 PM EXHIBITIONS OPEN
5:30-7:00 PM SUPPER
7:00-8:00 PM WELCOMES & NEW CIVA VIDEO
8:00-9:15 PM Father Richard Vosko
9:30-Midnight LATE, LATE SHOW
9:30-10:00 PM EVENING WORSHIP--Orthodox service
Friday, June 17th, 2005
7:00-9:00 AM BREAKFAST
8:00-8:30 AM WORSHIP--Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts
9:00-10:30AM Tim Hawkinson & Lynn Aldrich: 21st Century Role Models For Artists of Faith
10:30-11:00 AM BREAK with refreshments
11:00-Noon SESSION 3A
CIVASILVER: 25 Emerging Artists Project
SESSION 3B
The Cultural and Spiritual Legacy of Hans Rookmaaker
Noon-1:30 PM LUNCH
1:30-2:30 PM ROUND 1 WORKSHOPS -
2:30-3:00 PM BREAK
3:00-4:00 PM ROUND 2 WORKSHOPS -
3:00-6:00 PM STUDIO WORKSHOPS -
4:00-6:00 PM FILM SCREENINGS
FREE TIME
5:30-7:00 PM SUPPER
7:45-10:00 PM INSTALLATION EXHIBITION
(featuring new media works by over 25 artists)
9:30-10:00 PM WORSHIP--Catholic Mass
10:00-12:30 AM LATE, LATE SHOW
Saturday, June 18th, 2005
7:00-9:00 AM BREAKFAST
8:00-8:30 AM WORSHIP--Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts
9:00-10:00 AM Dr. Daniel Siedell
10:00-10:30AM BREAK with refreshments
10:30-NOON Film Group
Noon-1:30 PM LUNCH
1:30-2:30 PM CIVA MEMBERS' MEETING
2:30-3:00 PM BREAK
3:00-4:00 PM ROUND 3 WORKSHOPS -
3:00-6:00 PM STUDIO WORKSHOPS -
4:00-6:00 PM FILM SCREENINGS
CIVA NETWORK GROUP MEETINGS
FREE TIME
6:00-7:30 PM OUTDOOR MEXICAN FIESTA
7:30-8:30 PM Reflections on CIVA Then and Now
8:30-9:00 PM CIVA COMISSIONING SERVICE
9:00-10:00 PM SILVER ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
10:00-12:30 AM LATE, LATE SHOW
A registration brochure will be sent to all current CIVA members in early March. On-line will be available in mid-March. Contact the CIVA Office for more details.
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