Conference Workshops |
Friday, February 24th, 2006
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Saturday, February 25th, 2006 |
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Director & Actor's Chat:
"Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania"
A live interview will be conducted with director/ producer/writer David Hunt and his wife, producer/actress Patricia Heaton (2x Emmy-winning actress on Everybody Loves Raymond), followed by a Q&A session about issues of reconciling their craft with faith. |
Film Screening & Filmmaker Chat:
"39 Pounds of Love "
View this award-winning documentary, an inspiring and funny story about Ami Ankilewitz, a 34 year-old 3-D animator who weighs only 39 pounds, diagnosed
at birth with a rare form of spinal muscular atrophy. A chat with filmmaker will follow the screening including a Q&A session about making a film that matters. |
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NEA Grant Application Process FREE!
Eileen Mason, Senior Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will present a thirty-minute PowerPoint presentation to provide applicants with information on the Endowment's federal grant opportunities for eligible non-profit organizations. The presentation will also include an overview of the Endowment's programs to promote excellence in the arts and bring the arts to all Americans. The presentation will conclude with a Q&A discussion. |
Total Truth: Getting Past the Gatekeepers
A typical art professor (James Elkins) says he tells students that religious works are unacceptable in the art world. Why are religion-based perspectives typically dismissed from our public culture? Nancy Pearcey offers a penetrating critique of the strategies used to privatize and marginalize religious worldviews, while demonstrating an effective way to critique the dominant secular worldviews. (Follow-up to her morning talk on "Reconciling Head & Heart in the Arts") |
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Intelligent Humility
The Christian community tends to set up a paradigm of confrontation with popular culture. Christians have often self-righteously separated themselves in a guise of benevolence. To be truly reconciled will not require agreeing with the means or the meanings expressed in popular culture but it will require a new intelligent humility. Betty Spackman will talk about this in relation to her book, A Profound Weakness: Christians and Kitsch |
Intelligent Humility
The Christian community tends to set up a paradigm of confrontation with popular culture. Christians have often self-righteously separated themselves in a guise of benevolence. To be truly reconciled will not require agreeing with the means or the meanings expressed in popular culture but it will require a new intelligent humility. Betty Spackman will talk about this in relation to her book, A Profound Weakness: Christians and Kitsch |
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Integration of Theology and the Arts
How can we fuse our theological beliefs with our artistic practices? How can we reconcile our Monday-Friday working life with our Sundays? Miraslov Volf will lead a discussion on how to integrate theology with the arts. Makoto Fujimura will co-host the discussion. (Follow-up to Miraslov's morning talk on Reconciliation and Culture)
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Dante's Images of Reconciliation
This workshop explores the artistic vision of Dante in a late-modern context. Through a ‘conversation’ between poetic text, contemporary visual interpretation, and critical reflection, David Mahan & Makoto Fujimura will help us consider how Dante’s Divine Comedy manifests a preoccupation with the power of images to disclose a vision of unity in the face of human brokenness and fragmentation.
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The Culturally Engaged Church
How should the local church engage the culture and what is the church’s relationship to the arts? Does our theology pave the way for an arts-affirming stance in our worship and practice? How do we love God while avoiding both worldliness and isolationism? These questions will be explored by participants and 3 pastors, Sam Andreades & Kirk van der Swaagh
(Greenwich Village, NY) and Ian Cron (Greenwich, CT). |
Making the Church a Home to Artists
Sam Andreades, Kirk van der Swaagh, and Ian Cron will explore various issues involved in how the church can create a safe haven where artists are affirmed in their God-given talents. From their pastoral perspectives, they will discuss how the local church, both large and small, can work together to provide resources and a home to artists. They will also discuss what keeps many artists away from the church and how to address the inner life of the artist. |
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Portfolio Salon
This casual & interactive workshop provides the opportunity for conference attendees to network with other artists and have their visual artwork critiqued by local working artists in New York City: painter Chris Anderson, installation artist Albert Pedulla, and architect Daniel Lee. (Please bring your portfolio or reproductions of your work with you and be prepared to seek feedback. Do NOT bring slides unless you provide your own slide projector.) |
Portfolio Salon
This casual & interactive workshop provides the opportunity for conference attendees to network with other artists and have their visual artwork critiqued by local working artists in New York City: painter Chris Anderson, installation artist Albert Pedulla, and architect Daniel Lee. (Please bring your portfolio or reproductions of your work with you and be prepared to seek feedback. Do NOT bring slides unless you provide your own slide projector.) |
