The Artist & The City

St. B's community,

I'd like to invite you to consider attending Image Journal's July 2008 Glen Workshop, the foremost meeting place of creative thinkers (artists, musicians, readers, moviegoers, etc.) of faith. Last year's conference was covered by PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, so this year's spots are bound to go fast. The Image staff and community are outstanding. I'm really hoping I'll be able to go this year, and it would be great if others might join me!

Here is some information, plus a link to the website:

The theme for the week, “The Artist and the City,” will provide a focal point for discussion. What is the relationship between the believing artist and the public square? This question raises fundamental issues about the way faith and culture interact. In North America believers have often felt that they must address the world through proclamation, the assertion that others should acquire what we already have. But art works differently, involving both its creator and audience in an act of common discovery. As the theologian Henri de Lubac once said: “Truth is not a good that I possess.... It is such that in giving it I must still receive it; in discovering it I still have to search for it....” How might the artist's quest to understand what it means to be human influence the way church and society address one another?

http://www.imagejournal.org/glen/08/index.asp

Thanks!

Laura