If you, your church or ministry is looking for help with one, some, or all of the topics below, please reach out. I would love to come along side you in this work.
Use Visual Art in Teaching
In sermons, Bible classes or other teaching, use visual art as a rhetorical tool. Connect with people who are educated about art history and contemporary art to share their passions, experience and expertise to reveal God’s glory. Discover resources that make art accessible to those who may not have an art background.
Create in Conversation
It is not only the passive viewing of art that can be formative, but also the act of creating as well. The message doesn’t have to stop when the sermon ends. Learn how to engage your church in a two-way conversation using art shows, contemplative art-making practices and more.
Pay Attention to the Theological Aesthetics of our Worship Spaces
Whether changing the stage lighting, backdrop, adding a painting, banner or other visual object, changing visual aesthetics in a worship space can stir emotions of those who call the church home. Intentionality, purpose and communication is key to creating a space suitable for all people to worship, and most importantly, for God to dwell. Get guidance on how to make spiritually formative aesthetic decisions for your space and communicate well to your church.
Listen with Curiosity and Discernment to the Artists in our Community and Culture
Does contemporary art seem off-putting, ugly or even profane? Could there be prophets in our towns and our country we have dismissed, not accepted or ignored? Learn how to have an open posture to those who are already creating in our communities, make space for them to cross the secular/sacred divide and love our artist neighbors well.