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Xu Bing Sculptures at St. John the Divine
At St. John the Divine, in Morningside Heights, artist Xu Bing has installed two phoenix sculptures made from what the New York Times describes as, ”unexpected materials: feathers fashioned from impeccably layered shovels; crowns made of weathered hard hats; heads created from jackhammers; and birds’ bodies sculpted from other salvaged construction debris.&r...
February 19, 2014 -
Arranging Flowers to Nourish the Soul
By: Bethany Jenkins Esther Larson is a part-time, self-employed florist (www.essiesflowers.com) and senior manager of affiliate development for Hope for New York. She is also a former Gotham Fellow through the Center for Faith & Work. How did you become interested in arranging flowers? I’ve been working with nonprofit, anti-poverty orga...
February 18, 2014 -
Roll, Jordan, Roll
By: Kate Rhodes I have sung these words many times. “On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand and cast a wishful eye to Canaan’s fair and happy land, where my possessions lie.” The chorus looks to a place of rest where injustice no longer dwells; a place where fear is no more and freedom exists forever in the presence of God. Though I know the chorus well,...
February 10, 2014 -
Artist-In-Residence Recap
In October, CFW announced the inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Rebecca Locke, and commissioned Rebecca to create a new piece of work exploring the theme of celebration. The resulting body of workand we all came in together, an immersive installation, utilized new digital media, analogue technologies, video, objects, found images and discovered stories to reflect New Yorkers&rs...
January 8, 2014 -
Russell Durham Performance
Violinist Russell Durham performs his piece “Salvation” at the 2013 Center for Faith & Work Humanizing Work Conference
January 7, 2014 -
The Clue of Beauty in Visual Art
On Saturday, November 9, “The Clue of Beauty in Visual Art” Glimpse was led by Heather Lynn at The Art Studio NY on the Upper West Side as part of the Center for Faith & Work’s 2013 Humanizing Work Conference. Organized around a pastels class taught by Jill Hotchkiss, all attendees came prepared with images of beauty or brokenness in the...
December 9, 2013 -
New York Night Visions
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...
December 4, 2013 -
In The Living Room
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 i...
December 2, 2013 -
The City
By: Rebecca Locke Reading the New York Times online, my eyes drifted to a headline at the bottom of the page, lodged in the section for articles culled from the far reaches of the internet. With distractions like that, the next thing you know you’re getting an education on what can be bought from vending machines in Japan, or learning how to make a little girl&rsquo...
November 19, 2013 -
Xu Bing and the Phoenix
This video was commissioned by the Center for Faith & Work to help illustrate the concept of “Humanizing Work”. Directed by Jonathan Seale.
November 14, 2013
