By: Ben Stamper New films by Ben Stamper commissioned by the Center for Faith & Work New Music by John Mosloskie Performance by John Mosloskie and Nick Shopa Artist Statement: For many of us, abstraction as an overall approach to cinema is a problematic affair, and can sometimes leave us as audience members in a state of alienation from those who seem ...
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Finding our Way
to Great Work:
Vocations
in Media
By: Joseph G. Kickasola The first take really “stunk,” to be honest. The camera was on a jib— a long, pole-like support for film production —and the camera moved in to the target, swerving a bit like a drunken sailor. “Back to one,” I shouted from the director’s chair, huddled over a high-definition monitor which was worth many times the...
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Artists-in-
Residence
Announced for
Spring 2014
The Center for Faith & Work is pleased to welcome our Spring 2014 artists-in-residence: filmmaker Ben Stamper and musician Julia Easterlin. Both artists were chosen from invited proposals that explored the idea of what it means to be “Fully Human”. Each resident artist is now in the process of creating a brand new work on that theme, as it’s uniquely exp...
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Where’s The
Value in
Calculated Risk?
By: Keith Park An interesting situation has cropped up in the auto industry. On one side, you have GM embroiled in the midst of an embarrassing botched recall and on the other side is one of the most exciting and unlikely startups the country has ever seen. In the GM situation, a case can be made that the company did not believe a recall made business sense whereas w...
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A Biblical
Perspective
on Risk
We can’t talk about external risk without talking about our internal perspectives on fear and control. Tim Keller discusses a Biblical view of these two concepts and how that informs the way we approach risk.
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In The Living
Room: 7 Weeks
Exploring My
Faith and Art
By: Merrill Lee Girardeau For seven weeks in January and February, I was part of a Center for Faith & Work Artist Intensive called In the Living Room. The curriculum of the Living Room consisted of seven different themes, all tied to the role of the artist in the church. One week, we learned about “The Artist as Creator.” Among all the wisdom I r...
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