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October 2020
Weekly Zoom Collage Group
Dear CIVA Friends, During COVID19 Zoom classes allow us to gather and support one another. For this purpose, I am offering a weekly Zoom art class for non-artists and artists alike. It's just a time to get together for fun and creativity. Instructions for our Zoom “Collage as Spiritual Practice” classes are below. -Anita Breitenberg Materials Needed for Class First, collect your materials. Must-haves are paper or board to attach your pieces (any size will do and will depend…
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 1
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »THE SPIRITUAL IN ART: Paintings by Linda McCray
"THE SPIRITUAL IN ART: Paintings by Linda McCray." ART EXHIBITION: Oct. 2-Dec. 31, 2020. The Holter Museum of Art is free and open Tuesday–Saturday 10–5:30 pm, Sunday 12–4 pm, HolterMuseum.org. VIRTUAL OPENING & ARTIST TALK: October 2, 6 pm, Livestream and follow on Facebook: @LindaMcCrayStudio and @HolterMuseum. LIVE PAINTING & ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Watch Linda paint live in the High Gallery, and learn about her creative process. Projected schedule: Tuesday–Saturday, October 6–24, 12–4 pm. Livestream and follow on Facebook: @LindaMcCrayStudio and @HolterMuseum…
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 2
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »Revealed at Coram Deo Gallery
A socially-distanced public opening reception will be held on Friday, October 23rd. Masks will be required inside the gallery. A brief address will be given about the gallery and exhibit at 7pm. “Revealed” features twenty-three original artworks, from the new book Revealed: A Storybook Bible for Grown-Ups. This collection of contemporary works includes various printmaking techniques and covers the entire story of redemption from the fall in Genesis through the new creation promised in Revelation. The gallery is located at…
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 3
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »Winter’s Spring: An Ältere Garten
Winter’s Spring: An Ältere Garten will feature my newest sculptural work (20 foot tulips and birds!!!!) plus some varied sculptural and drawing work from my collection. I hope you will make the trip- the bonus is that the Miller Art Museum is in Door County one of the most beautiful places in Wisconsin! *A meet & greet style opening will take place on Saturday, October 24th from 10AM-1PM. Attendance protocols will be in place.
Find out more »November 2020
Weekly Zoom Collage Group
Dear CIVA Friends, During COVID19 Zoom classes allow us to gather and support one another. For this purpose, I am offering a weekly Zoom art class for non-artists and artists alike. It's just a time to get together for fun and creativity. Instructions for our Zoom “Collage as Spiritual Practice” classes are below. -Anita Breitenberg Materials Needed for Class First, collect your materials. Must-haves are paper or board to attach your pieces (any size will do and will depend…
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 2
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 1
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »Get The Message: Words and Images
Stephanie Lael Barrick has three wearable sculptures; "Blueprint For Life", "Direct My Path", and "Power From The Throne"; in this virtual art show of visual work inspired from written work. See StephanieLaelBarrick.com for images and more information about her biblical, wearable sculptures.
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 3
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »The Advent Project
Join Biola University for daily artistic Advent devotions. Follow along each day of Advent and sign up to have daily Advent devotionals sent to your inbox.
Find out more »December 2020
The Wellspring: Hamlet Dobbins
Hamlett Dobbins employs painting and abstraction to process experiences of pure consciousness. He has often been described as a "painter's painter” for his approach to shape and form, complex surface layering and adept color orchestration. His obsession with structure, texture and play began with his love of Legos as a child. Constructing images from basic shapes and colors allowed him to connect with his feelings in a physical way, discovering truths and narrating meaning behind once indescribable sensations. Since 2002,…
Find out more »Weekly Zoom Collage Group
Dear CIVA Friends, During COVID19 Zoom classes allow us to gather and support one another. For this purpose, I am offering a weekly Zoom art class for non-artists and artists alike. It's just a time to get together for fun and creativity. Instructions for our Zoom “Collage as Spiritual Practice” classes are below. -Anita Breitenberg Materials Needed for Class First, collect your materials. Must-haves are paper or board to attach your pieces (any size will do and will depend…
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 2
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 1
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »“Unburden” – A Virtual Interactive Exhibit
Many of us are carrying burdens of loss, anxiety, and uncertainty as we move towards the end of 2020. We have all been impacted in some way by the events of this year, and we bear fatigue weighed heavier by the inability to gather as a community to collectively grieve. In this interactive virtual exhibit "Unburden", the Gallery at W83 invites you to unload the burdens you are carrying. Through these individual and collective acts of unburdening, may we imagine…
Find out more »Art House Dallas December Livestream Concert & Online Auction
As we close 2020, the importance of quality time and joy make themselves more and more apparent as in-person gatherings have become more and more scarce. In lieu, then, of our usual end-of-year celebration, Art House Dallas is instead inviting the community at large to a free livestream concert and an accompanying online silent auction! Join us on Sunday, December 6th and tune into our free show featuring Crystal Yates and Andy Davis from 6:00-7:00 pm CST – and don't…
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A Very CIVA Christmas
Bust out your Santa hat, pour your favorite holiday beverage, and join CIVA virtually for a festive evening of art, music, and fellowship! Reserve your virtual spot today, and let's celebrate the season! Thursday, December 17th 7-8pm CST Music, Art Trivia, Toast 8-9pm CST Social Breakout Rooms A virtual meeting link will be sent on December 15th. Register today!
Find out more »Heart to Heart – Chamber 3
What Heart-to-Heart? “Heart-to-Heart” is a new program for CIVA members. It brings together an intimate group of creative thinkers who feel called to pray for and encourage others as they serve God through the visual arts. These groups will seek God’s strength and guidance as they support, encourage, and pray for one another in their creative calling through their work and walk with the Lord. Event Information Heart to Heart consists of 4 sessions that meet once a month for…
Find out more »January 2021
Weekly Zoom Collage Group
Dear CIVA Friends, During COVID19 Zoom classes allow us to gather and support one another. For this purpose, I am offering a weekly Zoom art class for non-artists and artists alike. It's just a time to get together for fun and creativity. Instructions for our Zoom “Collage as Spiritual Practice” classes are below. -Anita Breitenberg Materials Needed for Class First, collect your materials. Must-haves are paper or board to attach your pieces (any size will do and will depend…
Find out more »Calvin Symposium on Worship 2021
You are warmly invited to register now for a free online learning experience held January 6-26, 2021, on key topics and themes in worship and the Christian life at the Calvin Symposium on Worship. This online experience is designed for all kinds of learners: students, faculty, artists, musicians, pastors, preachers, scholars, teachers, worship leaders and planners, and all interested worshipers around the world.
Find out more »one another
one another explores images and ideas that often go unseen in cultures, the news, and our daily lives. Laura Stevenson’s exhibition addresses barriers that contribute to people avoiding engagement with strangers, neighbors, or people who may not be like them, ultimately feeding the “us-versus-them” mentality. Through dense, superimposed imagery and changing colored light, Stevenson visually contemplates what it could look like to move toward common ground with each other despite perceived differences in our increasingly polarized society. Laura Stevenson…
Find out more »“Casting Crowns” in the New Year
Release. Heal. Pray toward the future. This is what many of us need and exactly what the installation "Casting Crowns" invites us into. ABOUT THE INSTALLATION: "Casting Crowns" is an ongoing interactive installation started by Denise Weyhrich in 2020. Over the year she has continually collected Coronavirus newspaper reports and folded them into airplanes as prayers offered for healing. To date there are over 1,200 folded newspaper airplanes. They are ceremonially thrown towards the golden antenna, which is grounded in…
Find out more »‘HeARTwork’: a virtual exhibit by Center for All Abilities
"HeARTwork" is a special collection of pieces centering around self-expression and expressions of the heart. It features artwork created by children and youth of all abilities during art therapy sessions at Center for All Abilities (CAA). The pieces in the collection reflect each artist's innate creativity, each artist's expressive voice, and each artist's heart. We all have a story to tell and a desire for our voices to be heard. "HeARTwork" invites you to look, listen, and enter the creative…
Find out more »Table Talks
The Gospel is the thread that unites us and weaves us together at the Family Table, even though we don’t always live alike, look alike, or vote alike. At our Family Table, we don’t avoid talking about issues of race and racism; instead, we always come back to the broken body and shed blood of Jesus as we learn to stay at the table. Whether you’ve been at this table your whole life or you’re brand new, there is a…
Find out more »Graceland, Graceland Exhibit
Graceland, Graceland, is a new exhbit by CIVA Board chair, Samford University faculty member and artist Joe Cory showing in the Samford Art Gallery from Jan. 25-Feb. 19. The exhibit features work created with the backdrop of COVID.
Find out more »New Threads and Old Cloth
Hannah O’Hare Bennett is inspired by biological and geological forces. Her relationship to land, nature and studio practice is shaped by her past as an organic farmer, leading her to make poetic forms which explore natural and scientific concepts. This show includes works created from before and during the pandemic.
Find out more »Graceland, Graceland Artist Talk
Join CIVA Board Chair, Samford University faculty member and artist Joe Cory for a virtual discussion about his new exhibit, Graceland, Graceland, showing in the Samford Art Gallery from Jan. 25-Feb. 19. The exhibit features work created with the backdrop of COVID.
Find out more »Creatives Meet & Greet
Network with creatives from around the world! All genres and mediums are welcome. Please RSVP at regenesisguild.com to join us as we eat, laugh, share, and connect via zoom.
Find out more »March 2021
Reservoir
"The man who is wise, therefore, will see his life as more like a reservoir than a canal. The canal simultaneously pours out what it receives; the reservoir retains the water till it is filled, then discharges the overflow without loss to itself." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Join Intersect Arts Center for the opening of their Spring exhibition that explores the delicate, tenuous, and necessary relationship between work and rest. The exhibition seeks to curate a compendium of collective…
Find out more »February 2021
Weekly Zoom Collage Group
Dear CIVA Friends, During COVID19 Zoom classes allow us to gather and support one another. For this purpose, I am offering a weekly Zoom art class for non-artists and artists alike. It's just a time to get together for fun and creativity. Instructions for our Zoom “Collage as Spiritual Practice” classes are below. -Anita Breitenberg Materials Needed for Class First, collect your materials. Must-haves are paper or board to attach your pieces (any size will do and will depend…
Find out more »Without Moving, Tondos by Tim Lowly
Since she was born in 1985, Tim Lowly’s daughter Temma has figured increasingly prominently in his art. Over time he’s come to think of the work related to her as being an ongoing, multifaceted, yet singular project. A project that seeks meaning within a life Temma shares with her mother Sherrie, himself and others who care for her. Temma is profoundly other: the brain damage she experienced shortly after birth has rendered her as one for whom the concepts “development” and “ability”…
Find out more »Gallery Talk & Reception: Until I Can See You
Join Sojourn Arts for the opening reception of Cameron Alexander Lawrence’s Until I Can See You on Saturday, February 6th from 4-6PM ET in the gallery. A brief artist talk will begin at 4:30PM ET. About Until I Can See You: “The paintings in Until I Can See You are meant as both statements of longing for connection and attempts to enact a deeper communion between myself and the viewer, beyond the structures and forms of language (written and verbal)…
Find out more »FREE Floral Watercolor Workshop
This class is beginner-friendly and no previous experience is required! You’ll learn how to choose the best materials and the basic techniques for painting gorgeous florals and how to master the skills you need to enjoy the serene, relaxing benefits that watercolors can provide. Visit regenesisguild.com to register for free class today.
Find out more »Meet the Artists of “HeARTwork”
Meet the student artists behind the 'HeARTwork' exhibit! Center for All Abilities will interview the artists, followed by a time of Q&A from the audience. And there will also be a special music mini-performance! Free and open to the public. Registration required to receive the Zoom link.
Find out more »New Threads and Old Cloth Artist Lecture
Hannah O’Hare Bennett is inspired by biological and geological forces. Her relationship to land, nature and studio practice is shaped by her past as an organic farmer, leading her to make poetic forms which explore natural and scientific concepts. This show includes works created from before and during the pandemic. Join the Webinar PASSCODE: 9WB3bf
Find out more »Mount Tabor Talks – The Art of Penitence (Lenten Images)
The Art of Penitence (Lenten Images) - Discussion with Msgr Timothy Verdon The Mount Tabor Centre for Art and Spirituality offers a new series of talks given by Mons Timothy Verdon and Dr. Filippo Rossi. In the spirit of its international conferences and art exhibitions in Italy and the USA in recent years, the Centre will offer monthly lectures by Mons. Timothy Verdon, Director of the Cathedral Museum of Florence and Academic Director of Mount Tabor, and by Dr. Filippo…
Find out more »Faith in Fiction: Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Faith in Fiction will meet virtually on Tuesday, February 16th at 7PM ET to discuss Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. Our book discussions aim to equip each member to read and interpret cultural artifacts thoughtfully from a Christian perspective, and to learn to discuss challenging content with grace and precision. Meeting link
Find out more »Mount Tabor Talks – Artistic Techniques
The Art of Penitence (Lenten Images) - Discussion with Msgr Timothy Verdon The Mount Tabor Centre for Art and Spirituality offers a new series of talks given by Mons Timothy Verdon and Dr. Filippo Rossi. In the spirit of its international conferences and art exhibitions in Italy and the USA in recent years, the Centre will offer monthly lectures by Mons. Timothy Verdon, Director of the Cathedral Museum of Florence and Academic Director of Mount Tabor, and by Dr. Filippo…
Find out more »The Art of Business
Today’s artist has to master their craft, think like an entrepreneur, and market their work. It sounds like a lot—because it is. But staying true to the vocational call of being an artist does not have to mean going without pay. This 6-hour online workshop split between two Saturday sessions is taught by experienced and knowledgeable leaders and is designed to give artists the tools and resources needed to excel in their work, build a business, and fulfill their calling…
Find out more »‘HeARTwork’ at W83: Art making workshop with Center for All Abilities
This interactive workshop led by Center for Abilities staff will involve an art making activity that you can do right in your home! This event is in conjunction with the ‘HeARTwork’ virtual exhibit. Free and open to the public. Registration required to receive the Zoom link.
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Virtual AEHS Study Day with Dr. Rowan Williams on ‘Theology for the Life of the Church’
The 2021 annual Anglican Episcopal House of Studies (AEHS) Study Day at Duke Divinity School will be virtual due to COVID-19 restrictions and feature Dr. Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury, speaking on "Theology for the Life of the Church." The annual Study Day offers clergy, other ministry professionals, and students the chance to learn and reflect on a substantial topic relating to theology and ministry. This year's main speaker at the Virtual AEHS Day Study will be Dr. Rowan…
Find out more »Artist Anthony Visco presents “The Maesta` and the Art of Sacred Conversation”
Please join Kathleen Carr and the Catholic Art Institute as we host an evening with Artist Anthony Visco as he presents his lecture “The Maesta` and the Art of Sacred Conversation” . Realized as our Lady enthroned in silent conversation with saints, their elements of composition, this Zoom slide presentation will explore its origins, its evolution, and how we may return to this time honored Marian devotion. This lecture is open to all who wish to attend and is offered…
Find out more »CIVA Gathers
CIVA Gathers is a Christ-centered virtual gathering in which CIVA Members have the opportunity to connect and pray together. The doors are open to all traditions and backgrounds. Each month we will spend time with scripture and an artwork from CIVA’s newest traveling exhibition. The photography exhibition Again + Again is centered around the church calendar. CIVA Gathers is led by CIVA Staff and rotating featured CIVA artists, theologians, and cultural leaders. We recognize our members come from a variety of prayer…
Find out more »The Art of Business
Today’s artist has to master their craft, think like an entrepreneur, and market their work. It sounds like a lot—because it is. But staying true to the vocational call of being an artist does not have to mean going without pay. This 6-hour online workshop split between two Saturday sessions is taught by experienced and knowledgeable leaders and is designed to give artists the tools and resources needed to excel in their work, build a business, and fulfill their calling…
Find out more »March 2021
Weekly Zoom Collage Group
Dear CIVA Friends, During COVID19 Zoom classes allow us to gather and support one another. For this purpose, I am offering a weekly Zoom art class for non-artists and artists alike. It's just a time to get together for fun and creativity. Instructions for our Zoom “Collage as Spiritual Practice” classes are below. -Anita Breitenberg Materials Needed for Class First, collect your materials. Must-haves are paper or board to attach your pieces (any size will do and will depend…
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