On Friday night, we participated in our first ever Eastside Culture Crawl. Our son and daughter-in-law were participants as residents at The Arc, a building made up of mostly artists living in studio apartments, as are they. In total, the crawl opens the homes and studios of 500 Vancouver artists, giving them an amazing venue to show their work and an opportunity for people and patrons to just wander through, look, appreciate and maybe buy art. Joshua and Annie had a great first experience of it and both sold several works in the four days of the Crawl. For artists living and working out of a faith tradition can be hard as you can read in Karen Barker's Filled with God's Spirit to be an Artist. We need artists and the Christian community needs artists, it needs patrons and it needs younger parents to encourage their children in the arts.
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Liz Tolkamp
12/3/2017 10:33:19 pm
Christian Courier recently ran an article entitled "Abraham Kuyper's Legacy and Future.(see below) The article quoted Cal Seerveld who had this to say about Kuyper and the need for the arts that gets at the heart of what you are suggesting in this blog post. "He [Cal] quoted Kuyper as saying that “art is no fringe that is attached to the garment of human life” and urged that artistry should become the underwear of aspiring Biblical students. Following the laughter, he added: wearing such underwear should be a priority in Christian schools, “since the arts are among the best resilient, subtle and invigorating carriers of world-and-life visions.” The audience was reminded that a novel, after all, was the key instrument in Kuyper’s conversion, and Cry the Beloved Country was a catalyst in the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa."
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