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July 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 »August 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 »September 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 »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 »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 »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 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 »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 »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 »December 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 »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 »October 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 »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 »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…
Find out more »April 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 »May 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 »Hudson Valley Art Association 88th Juried Exhibition
Member Suzy Schultz has her piece Warrior 7 included in the Hudson Valley Art Association 88th Juried Exhibition. Suzy Schultz grew up in St. Petersburg FL, and was encouraged in her art by her artist mother and physician father, and later her boss/mentor at a missions agency. She has painted full time since 1995. Her work has won many awards, and has been shown in museums and galleries throughout the US, as well as in art books and magazines. Most…
Find out more »June 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 »Artist Talk with Letitia Huckaby – My Soul Looks Back and Wonder How I Got Over
Come hear a discussion of the exhibition from Letitia Huckaby we delve into her art, processes, and sources of inspiration. “My Soul Looks Back and Wonder How I Got Over” is a thoughtful visual dialogue that uses art to examine how the pervasiveness of a collective past informs our present, and how the persistence of hope and collective purpose positively redeems us to our present, and our future. Skip Hill and Letitia Huckaby use collage and fiber and for this specific body…
Find out more »Reorientation: artists in the pandemic
Join us for the IN-PERSON Opening Reception of "Reorientation: artists in the pandemic" exhibition in NYC. Artwork by Uisuk Byeon Kat Chamberlin Selwyn V. Garraway Lorena Gómez-Mostajo Kosuke Kawahara Joe Kay Osamu Kobayashi Sizhu Li Josef Pinlac Nozomi Rose Seung Yun Shin and Visarut Curated by Nozomi Rose ATP Gallery at NCGV 269 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014 U.S.A. June 4th, 6-8pm ET at limited capacity and with social-distancing (bring a mask) We'll have refreshments, feel free to invite…
Find out more »Ambientes: Places After Time
June 25th - August 1st, 2021 Curators: Xavier Robles Armas With artists: Itzel Basualdo, William Camargo, Alejandro Jimenez-Flores, Meli Marie Nava, Xavier Robles Armas , Nancy Sanchez Tamayo, Stephen Signa-Aviles Opening Day: Friday, 7/25 1-6PM with a reception from 7–11PM No reservation needed. Mask required.
Find out more »Ambientes: Places After Time – Opening Reception
June 25th - August 1st, 2021 Curators: Xavier Robles Armas With artists: Itzel Basualdo, William Camargo, Alejandro Jimenez-Flores, Meli Marie Nava, Xavier Robles Armas , Nancy Sanchez Tamayo, Stephen Signa-Aviles Opening Day: Friday, 7/25 1-6PM with a reception from 7–11PM No reservation needed. Mask required.
Find out more »July 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 »Ambientes: Places After Time – Artist Talk
June 25th - August 1st, 2021 Curators: Xavier Robles Armas With artists: Itzel Basualdo, William Camargo, Alejandro Jimenez-Flores, Meli Marie Nava, Xavier Robles Armas , Nancy Sanchez Tamayo, Stephen Signa-Aviles No reservation needed. Mask required. ZOOM MEETING ID: 893 2174 7212
Find out more »The RESTART: Virtual Art Conference
The RESTART: Virtual Art Conference 2021 is designed to provide support for art professional development for TK-12 teachers, art faculty, artists, museum educators, and art historians. We aim to bring professionals with innovative art teaching experience to teach, lecture, or host workshops for those who might not have access to transformative art experiences. Two Day Virtual Conference, Friday, July 16th & Saturday, July 17th Purchase tickets for each day individually ($30) if you cannot make the whole event, or the…
Find out more »Taking Flesh: Incarnation, Embodiment and Artistry
Taught by The Rev. Dr. Trevor Hart Honorary Professor of Divinity, the University of St. Andrews and Rector, St. Andrew’s Episcopal ChurchDescription: God as creator taking on the flesh of creation in order to redeem, transform, and exalt that creation is at the heart of the Christian gospel and also central to our existence as embodied beings in God’s creation of both “things visible and invisible.” In an analogous manner, for the human creature to be fully human involves us…
Find out more »Less (and) More: Modernism Greets the River Landscape
July 11 – September 19, 2021 Less (and) More: Modernism Greets the River Landscape at the Barnsworth Gallery, is an exhibition of Fox River landscape paintings that gives viewers a sense of the land and environment in which the Farnsworth House is situated. Artist Joel Sheesley is a painter and the inaugural artist-in-residence at Farnsworth House (2020-21). Artist’s Statement Initially, I planned only to paint the river landscape around the Farnsworth House, but my curiosity drove me to the House…
Find out more »August 2021
Visual Artist Feedback
Anyone who has explored the creative process understands the value of feedback. Exposing our “works in progress” to the critique of our peers certainly takes courage, but feedback can also take our creative endeavors from average to excellent. Art House Dallas wants to provide an encouraging environment within a small group setting to explore your strengths and potential areas of growth as an artist. Groups will always be limited to 4 to 6 and Art House will provide facilitators who…
Find out more »CIVA Gathers – August 26
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 »September 2021
Reflecting Glory Exhibition
This show highlights several gilded encaustic panels that recall many iconic paintings from our Christian heritage. Because of their solid gold surface, they allow the viewer to delight in the radiance of each panel while drawing on memory and imagination to fill in the forms. Forty encaustic gilded panels and forty black panels that are incised with text, become 40 Days/40 Nights. The black panels are inscribed with the text from John 1, "The light shines in the darkness…
Find out more »Flatbed Press – Italian Intensive Workshop
Member Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking is hosting its fifth Italian Intensive Workshop September 6-20, 2021. Explore new monotype strategies including stencils, trace drawings, and layering. The workshop takes place in beautiful Italy and will allow students to work at their own level in developing images and process. Students with little or no experience will feel comfortable in this course and more experienced students will continue to build on their skills and knowledge. The registration deadline is coming up soon.…
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CIVA in Florence
An afternoon with Dante & art with artist Timothy Schmalz Friday, 10 September 2021 16:00 (Italia) La Badia Foirentina (il cortile) Florence, Italy Email Lawan@civa.org if you plan to attend. Gather with us in recognition of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death from malaria on 14 September 1321. Dante was instrumental in establishing the now-common visual and poetic imagery of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven that has provided inspiration for much of Western art. Join CIVA‘s Executive Director Lawan Glasscock and Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz…
Find out more »Eden Collective: Incubate
This year marks the 2nd year of Eden Collective, an annual artistic gallery and showcase of visual, written, and performative creative works around a specific theme designated by the curators at Regenesis Guild. When we launched Eden Collective in 2020, we chose the theme “Conception,” partly to celebrate the beginning of both the collection and the guild. The other part was to give voice to a year that, for better or worse or both, disrupted the normal narrative of our…
Find out more »CIVA Gathers – September 30
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 »October 2021
希: Αισθητική a chemistry of aesthetics – Opening Reception
希: Αισθητική a chemistry of aesthetics A solo exhibition by Nozomi Rose October 1st - December 11th, 2021 Free Admission and open to the public In-person Opening Reception 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Friday, October 15th, 2021 Closing artist talk 7:00 p.m. Saturday, December 11th * Refreshments served Please bring a proof of vaccination or negative covid test and wear a mask. First Friday Jazz (FFJ) in the gallery, 2 sets- 8pm & 9:30pm, free admission: Oct 1 Johnathan Blake…
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