By: Deborah Fung During our Glimpse New York Night Visions, we first prepared silk paintings by drawing lines with gutta resist.  While these first pieces were set aside to dry, the group worked on a second piece, a New York skyline.  This larger image was pre-drawn in gutta on twelve separate pieces of silk.   Each participant selected ...

By: Esther Larson Seeing nature in the midst of Manhattan refreshes the soul.  By nature I don’t mean horse carriages in Central Park (“The Rye” Seinfeld episode ruined those for me) or the rats on the subway, but the beautiful kind of nature, like flowers in the flower market. Five years ago, realizing my need for nature inside my apartment, I started taking...

By: Kelley Sullivan I first heard of In the Living Room, a 7-week artist intensive offered by the Center for Faith & Work, in a service on Redeemer’s Upper West Side before the downtown congregation was a reality. I was blessed in September and October with the opportunity to be a part of the first creative cohort specifically for Downtowners, and it was so incredibly ...