Reflections on Reviving a Christian Vision & Vocation of Art – How the Redeemer School of the Arts trains students in music, visual, and culinary arts by recovering a Christian vision of beauty, worship, and vocation.
Thank you for this article! It's wonderful to hear of this challenge to Christians to think differently about the arts and how to glorify our God with them. As a Christian comic book artist, my craft has been in the back corner of the art class for some time, and has been relagated to tracks only it seems. But there is so much the church can do with art and with publishing artistic content. I've been challenged recently in even my own thinking on this topic, to think of the ways the church can help artists, not commissioning them like the old days, but to consider ways of supporting the artists in their our own flocks as something of artistic missionaries. A published book can have potential for reaching people far away from our normal communities. What if the church helped it's artists by helping in that endeavor whether its a children's gospel oriented book, a comic book, or any other type of book. The church can benefit from not neglecting these things and those whom the Lord has blessed with such talents. The first man in scripture to have the Holy Spirit was an artisan after all. He made beautiful workings for the temple!
Its wonderful to hear our thinking about these things are changing a bit, and that the church could be entering a new "Rennaissance" when it comes to art! Thank you. (Loved to hear there is a school promoting these things as well. That's wonderful!)
Thanks, Eric. You might be interested to know one of our visual arts students coming in to RSA this year is likeminded in love of comic illustration in a similar manner to what you’ve described. Thanks for the kind feedback. -Jarrod
That's wonderful! Thanks for sharing! Please have anyone reach out to me with any questions they may have when it comes to that field! They can find me at www.ericninaltowskiart.com Happy to help! Keep up the good work! In Him, Eric
Thank you for this article! It's wonderful to hear of this challenge to Christians to think differently about the arts and how to glorify our God with them. As a Christian comic book artist, my craft has been in the back corner of the art class for some time, and has been relagated to tracks only it seems. But there is so much the church can do with art and with publishing artistic content. I've been challenged recently in even my own thinking on this topic, to think of the ways the church can help artists, not commissioning them like the old days, but to consider ways of supporting the artists in their our own flocks as something of artistic missionaries. A published book can have potential for reaching people far away from our normal communities. What if the church helped it's artists by helping in that endeavor whether its a children's gospel oriented book, a comic book, or any other type of book. The church can benefit from not neglecting these things and those whom the Lord has blessed with such talents. The first man in scripture to have the Holy Spirit was an artisan after all. He made beautiful workings for the temple!
Its wonderful to hear our thinking about these things are changing a bit, and that the church could be entering a new "Rennaissance" when it comes to art! Thank you. (Loved to hear there is a school promoting these things as well. That's wonderful!)
S.D.G. - Eric Ninaltowski
Thanks, Eric. You might be interested to know one of our visual arts students coming in to RSA this year is likeminded in love of comic illustration in a similar manner to what you’ve described. Thanks for the kind feedback. -Jarrod
That's wonderful! Thanks for sharing! Please have anyone reach out to me with any questions they may have when it comes to that field! They can find me at www.ericninaltowskiart.com Happy to help! Keep up the good work! In Him, Eric