Emerging Artists Collective

03/02/2017

Are you looking for a guided journey through Lent? The Center for Christianity, Culture and the Arts at Biola is offering a Lenten devotional that presents music, art, and poetry alongside text. You can sign up to receive each day's entry via email or access it directly. http://ccca.biola.edu/lent/

The Lent Project is a daily devotional series celebrating the Lent season through art and Scripture.

03/01/2017

Quote of the day from writer Frederick Buechner: If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

05/25/2016

Writer Frederick Buechner notes, "Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track of these stories of who we are because it is precisely through these stories that God makes himself known to each of us. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually." If you desire to meet God in the ground of your own story as well as learn more about writing, have time and inspiration to write, and experience nurture for your creative soul, then consider participating in the Summer Stories Workshop with Judith Hougen. Early bird rate available until June 8. It promises to be a significant weekend! Follow this link for details: http://judithhougen.blogspot.com/p/spiritual-writing-retreat-july-22-24.html

09/11/2015

Happy Friday! Take 51 seconds to enjoy a lovely poem, "Boreal (spider)," by Brianna Flavin that she read at our last EAC gathering.

09/09/2015

We enjoyed some original poetry from Brianna Flavin and music from Anna and Bret Carey.

08/31/2015

We had a great gathering last week. Anna and Brett Carey performed some truly amazing music. Check out their last song of the night. Beautiful stuff. We have such talented creatives in our midst!

07/24/2015

We had a great gathering tonight that included a short field trip to the MIA with Luke Aleckson at the helm. Luke's farewell time was the best--grateful for his investment in young creatives' lives.

07/10/2015

Quote of the day from visual artist Makoto Fujimura: "When art is simply what we must do to stay true to ourselves, it is a calling."

P.S. Our next emerging artist gathering is Thursday, July 23. Stay tuned for the event page!

06/23/2015

We had a great night listening to EAC community members reading poetry and prose with some good music added as well. 30+ creatives came out! Good to see you all and thanks for coming!

05/29/2015

Quote of the day from Eugene Peterson: "Prayer and poetry are the closest of kin. In poetry we say it; in prayer we become what we say…"

04/29/2015

Thought for the day from visual artist Makoto Fujimura: "When art is simply what we must do to stay true to ourselves, it is a calling." We will be talking about calling at our May EAC gathering. Stay tuned.

04/03/2015

A snippet of what's to come at our EAC gathering this Monday: "We're living vessels of God's presence in the world for mercy and love. Who you are in the world matters, and how you recognize the Kingdom of God within you brings Christ's hands into the immediate present....But is there something we can do in this moment alone, while collecting throughts, preparing? How about we do what God did to make all moments: create. Our God is one who imagines, makes, and revises. See our world, and see the being you are. And see Christ--an ultimate act of creation--God's being made real, dancing, walking, moving among the made."--Dave Harrity from Making Manifest. Join us as we host Dave at our April EAC gathering on April 6. It's going to be good. Hope to see you there.