The Art of Faith: 6th annual Lenten Artists Salon Series

A gathering of artist centered living room style conversations, in the tradition of the Harlem Renaissance. This salon series of artist-led conversations uses a mix of art, music, poetry, dance, essays, film, current events, and/or spiritual texts as springboards for dialogue and community.

During these salons we focus on the artist, rather than solely their artwork, engaging in conversations that artists want to discuss, such as imagination, creating during hard times, survival, rejection, criticism, racism, oppression, the creative process, artistic expression, developing new work, spirituality, the church, and more.

This year’s salons are hybrid,  both in location–gathering in person in the Orange Building at St James’ and online, and in content–open studio style, attendees are encouraged to engage in their choice of arts experiences during conversations, utilizing their own materials, or arts materials on site..

Bring your art supplies, to sketch, write, paint, compose, draw, bead, color, or journal, and have conversations with your peers.

This year’s salons are centered around the theme of portraits.

Mondays, 7 pm to 8:30 PM Central Time.

• 7:00PM Settle in (social/check in)
• 7:30 Conversation begins

Dates:

Conversation Starting Points:

• March 7 The regathering of artists. Mutual check in, inspired by the art of social science portraiture, and setting intentions. Who are you in this moment in time? What artistic expressions will you reconnect with in the coming weeks?
• March 14 Musical portraits. Painting biographies and autobiographies with words and sound.
• March 21 “Give Me Jesus” How artists widen the landscape of our image of God and self.
• March 28 A conversation with guest artist Julia “Kito” Kirtley, a multidisciplinary artist from Compton, California, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. https://www.juliakitokirtley.com/
• April 4 Unforgettable: remembering and reimagining portraits. Inspired by the work of Bisa Butler and others, attendees are encouraged to bring old photos (from your personal collection, or found images from a thrift store, etc.) as the starting point of inspiration to create fabric or paper collage portrait images.

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