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OC/IC Art And Creativity
Art, New Media, And The Case For God
Over the past two years I’ve posted more than once about the interaction between new media, outreach, and sparking creative projects within the community. Here, at Iconia Menachem Wecker has written a post well worth reading. In it he observes that many religious communities using new media are failing to take the opportunity to present [...]
New Media and OC/IC Communities & Projects
Over the past couple of years – ever since I discovered the glories of SKYPE I’ve been interested in how OC/IC communities, and projects (like our own Indie Voices Archive) can use various new media to reach out beyond the small groups we work within. I’ve done a bit of blogging on it in the [...]
I’m All Verklempt, Tawlk Amongst Yourselves, I Give You A Topic . . . . .
Some of you know already I paint icons. I’m always on the look out for the unusual ones – one’s I’ve not seen before but grab me, move me, and make me think about our faith in new and different ways. I think this one qualifies! It’s a 17th century Balkan icon – I’ve only [...]
OC/IC Artists & Craftspeople
A while back I wrote this post on Christian art. I had cause to re-visit it this morning, while looking over this year’s re-design of my local community’s web page. It has got me thinking: where are our OC/IC artists and craftspeople: painters, carvers, jewellers, embroiderers, writers, poets, musicians – the people who through their [...]