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Terroir

By: Kenyon Adams One of the things I love about wine is its ability to express the essence of a particular place. Within the tiny orb of a grape is the potential to offer complex flavors and aromas which, when given time and great care, seem to re-imagine the world in which it was grown. The relationship between human beings and the soil beneath our feet can be delic...

January 7, 2011
Artists and Church: A Gospel Movement

By: Kenyon Adams Each year hundreds of artists make the move to New York City to pursue their ambitions in creative fields. This opens the door to a lot of unsolicited advice: be sure to have something else to fall back on, give yourself a time limit after which point you should move on to something else, beware of losing your morals in the theater…. But rarely wil...

January 1, 2011
New Year

In the parable of the talents, Jesus is clear that he does not want us to be wasteful with what little we have. Instead, the servant with the least amount of resources learns that he who is faithful with small things will be given more. As we confront issues of funding for artists in the twentieth century church, we have to ask whether our funding systems are simply hando...

December 31, 2010
The Annunciation’s Drama

By: Maria Fee A sort of advent ensues prior to a dramatic play. We make our way to the theater, purchase tickets, take our seats and wait for the curtain to rise. Yet something else transpires pre-show. We willingly put ourselves at risk for we know art has the ability to alter our belief systems— including the ways we view the world and ourselves. And thu...

December 10, 2010
Creativity and Incarnation

In The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller the playwright describes a singular moment of artistic creation – the very first time in rehearsal that actor Lee J. Cobb actually became the character of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman. …Lee rose from his chair and looked at Milly Dunnock and there was a silence. And then he said, “I was driving...

December 3, 2010
Water in the Desert

By: Maria Fee “And all mankind will see God’s salvation.” This is John the Baptist’s ministerial tagline taken from the prophet Isaiah. Make straight paths, fill in valleys, lower mountains, all of these feats now possible by human ingenuity. But these accomplishments begin with a voice in a desert proclaiming the impossible is now evident: God ...

November 25, 2010
I Harvest

2009 Annual Juried Exhibition October 16, 2009 – early January 2010 Redeemer offices, 1359 Broadway, Suite 400 “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” Matthew 9:37, 38 Redeemer’s artists are working in God’s harvest field for the renewal of ...

October 16, 2010
People of the Presence

By Gordon Fee

October 15, 2010
Art, the Spirit, Fig Trees and the Problem of Abundance

Artists ask others to taste the excess of the goodness of God through their art. They invite us into God’s economy of abundance in a world that operates out of a sense of scarcity. David O Taylor explains how art demonstrates there is more to life in God’s world than we can measure. An intense experience of pleasure reminds us that it is all grace.

October 15, 2010
Are You An Arts Patron?

Have you attended an arts event or venue in the last six months? (live music concert, museum or gallery, play, dance performance, independent film, etc.) Do you have a favorite art form that you particularly enjoy experiencing and learning about? Do you occasionally attend different types of arts events/venues, besides your favorite? Do you have an artist or arts or...

July 10, 2010

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