Unsung Artist SPRING Residency 2025 Begins!
Welcome participants in the 2025 Spring Residency! We’ll meet, greet, and get the low down on all that is coming your way! See you there!
CLOSED EVENT. By invitation only.
Unsung Artist WINTER Residency 2025 Begins!
Welcome participants in the 2025 Winter Residency! We’ll meet, greet, and get the low down on all that is coming your way! See you there!
CLOSED EVENT. By invitation only.
Unsung Artist Residency 2025: OPENING CEREMONIES!
Welcome participants in the 2025 cohort of the Unsung Arts Discipleship Residency! We’ll meet, greet, and get the low down on all that is coming your way! See you there!
CLOSED EVENT. By invitation only.
Dessert & Discussion: Creative Community: Learning from the Inklings
Due to ongoing protests, the location for our meeting is TBD and will be announced Sunday afternoon.
COMMUNITY
is the dance partner of
CREATIVITY. Community is the trellis that the vines of creativity grow up. It is the crew of the ship which creativity blows along. It is the next for its eggs, the wind beneath its wings… and the cliché for its event blurb :/
But how does such a community really happen? And what can we do to cultivate it? Those are the questions we explore this week by
visiting with the mythical granddaddy of all creative communities—the Inklings. Thanks to the articulate
yet
accessible scholarship of
Diana Glyer, we’ll learn what they did to make it work, and what we can do ourselves.
Then (here comes the exciting part) we will
put it into practice and plans for our own creative community to sustain us through Summer 2024.
TEXT: The Inklings, Creativity, and Community, with Diana Glyer
Please note:
Our text this week is a wonderful interview Glyer gave to the Trinity Forum, and it is about 1 hour long. Please give it a good listen! We encourage you to sit back, take notes, think deep thoughts.
RSVP below.
Dessert & Discussion will be a time to gather for thought-provoking conversation centered on a text, a work of art, or some other material that we will consider together in light of Scripture and our lives in Christ. We will also discuss connections to the culture around us, and our presence for Christ in the world.
Sunday, 19 May, 2024. Join us!
LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE. RSVP BELOW!
Arts for the Kingdom
Arts for the Kingdom is a 1-week intensive training event in the foundations of arts in cross-cultural ministry. Grounded in decades of real-life field experience and scholarly insights, this course equips God’s people with practical ministry tools.
Learn all about the course HERE.
Course full! Click here to join WAITLIST.
“The Stories We Carry": Student Art Exhibition
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After months of hard work, hundreds of hours in the studio, and lots of soul searching, our esteemed artists in residence are proud to present their portfolio projects: “The Stories We Carry.” Each set of works conveys in its own way a journey these students have been on, both during their residency, but also in life. Each project in its own way looks at the layers of experience life gives us, and how light, even God’s light, filters through them to make us who we are. Through series of paintings, a hanging installation of multimedia textiles, and an all-original short film, you will discover themes of light, transparency, shadow, and change. Each student will present her project with some personal remarks, and we will celebrate their accomplishment with refreshments.Make it stand out
Details: Tuesday, 9 April 2024 | 7-10pm | Events begin promptly at 7pm!
Our Artists:
Grace - Series of paintings - acrylic on canvass
Lydia - Hanging installation - charcoal & handmade paper
Olivia - Series of paintings - oil on canvass
Elizabeth - Original screenplay and film
Dessert & Discussion: Inspiration & the Creative Muse
INSPIRATION
strikes! Or… doesn’t. Like a mysterious wind, or a coquettish girl, inspiration can appear one moment, and disappear the next; flash like a spark, or run through our fingers like sand. This week we discuss what inspiration is, how we find it, and how we recover it when lost. But especially we will consider what God has to do with it. How does the Holy Spirit relate to our imaginative energies? Is it him? Is it me? Is it both?
TEXT:
“What Is the Holy Spirit’s Role in Art?” Sara Groves & W. David O. Taylor
RSVP below.
Dessert & Discussion will be a time to gather for thought-provoking conversation centered on a text, a work of art, or some other material that we will consider together in light of Scripture and our lives in Christ. We will also discuss connections to the culture around us, and our presence for Christ in the world.
Sunday, 24 March, 2024. Join us!
LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE. RSVP BELOW!
Dessert & Discussion: Worldbuilding (Copy)
This week we will discuss: WORLDBUILDING.
We’re creators, all. Whether it’s through fiction, film, visual arts,
homemaking,
building a business, family, or lego land, we participate in God’s great creative work. What does it take to worldbuild? We humbly offer an in-depth conversation between Eli and his brother Max, recently featured on the Worldcraft Club podcast.
RSVP below. Listen to the podcast and come ready to discuss!
Dessert & Discussion will be a time to gather for thought-provoking conversation centered on a text, a work of art, or some other material that we will consider together in light of Scripture and our lives in Christ. We will also discuss connections to the culture around us, and our presence for Christ in the world.
Sunday, 21 January, 2024. Join us!
LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE. RSVP BELOW!
Unsung Artist Residency 2024: OPENING CEREMONIES!
Welcome participants in the 2024 cohort of the Unsung Arts Discipleship Residency! We’ll meet, greet, and get the low down on all that is coming your way! See you there!
CLOSED EVENT. By invitation only.
Dessert & Discussion
By popular demand, we cordially invite you to our monthly gathering to discuss art and faith!
Dessert & Discussion will be a time to gather for thought-provoking conversation centered on a text, a work of art, or some other material that we will consider together in light of Scripture and our lives in Christ. We will also discuss connections to the culture around us, and our presence for Christ in the world.
Join us for our kickoff event on Sunday, 19 November!
LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE. RSVP BELOW!
Inside the Artist
For creatives, and those who live with them.
How can you survive and thrive as a creative? Or live well with the artists in your life? This course provides a blueprint for navigating a creative temperament, how to support the artist in your life, and how to live in healthy relationships with God and those around us. Topics include:
◆ The 9 Dimensions of Creativity ◆ Creative Process ◆ Artist Partner ◆ Community ◆ Marketing ◆ Profitability
Based on the book, Living with a Creative Mind
NEXT COURSE: November 2-3, 2023
…and, what’s with the zebra? Come find out :)
Arts in Missions: Why Bother?!
Arts in missions? Sounds great—but how does it really work? How does God look at art? And what if I’m not an artist? These questions and many more will be answered in this fun, engaging, and deeply transformative training. See how God has given creativity, not to some, but to all, for his glory among the nations
Film Workshop: ADVANCED
Film Workshop: ADVANCED
This workshop is designed for those with real-life experience in filmmaking but who seek seasoned mentoring and training to go deeper with their craft. Craig’s hands-on digital filmmaking workshops and media production training seminars are designed to sharpen sharpen your skills and focus your message. Craig speaks from decades of filmmaking and training experience across scores of countries. His heart is to raise up Christ-filled visual storytellers with excellence.
DATES: Thursday 20 April - Saturday 22 April, 2023
TIMES: TBA
PARTICIPANTS: Open to professional filmmakers age 18 and up
COST (scaled by income):
$45 - Tier 1 (For those with annual income below $20,000 USD)
$90 - Tier 2 (For those with annual income $20,000 - $40,000 USD)
$135 - Tier 3 (For those with annual income $40,000 and higher USD)
All cost tiers receive the same, full, 3-day training! Minors and dependents pay the tier of their parents/guardians.
Film Workshop: BEGINNERS
Film Workshop: BEGINNER
Learn filmmaking from the ground up! Make your projects matter. In this intensive 3-day workshop veteran filmmaker Craig Forrest will walk you through essential skills to take your stories from just an idea to a finished product. No matter where you’re starting from or what you use — be it a smartphone or professional rig — Craig will help you grow. Plus, we will learn how this most powerful form of media to tell the most important stories: those of Christ.
DATES: Monday 17 April - Wednesday 19 April, 2023
TIMES: TBA
PARTICIPANTS: Open to anyone age 14 and up
COST (scaled by income):
$45 - Tier 1 (For those with annual income below $20,000 USD)
$90 - Tier 2 (For those with annual income $20,000 - $40,000 USD)
$135 - Tier 3 (For those with annual income $40,000 and higher USD)
All cost tiers receive the same, full, 3-day training! Minors and dependents pay the tier of their parents/guardians.
Arts in Missions: Why Bother??
Arts in missions? Sounds great—but how does it really work? How does God look at art? And what if I’m not an artist? These questions and many more will be answered in this fun, engaging, and deeply transformative training. See how God has given creativity, not to some, but to all, for his glory among the nations
Visiting Incarnate Arts School!
Unsung Arts Collective’s own Eli has been graciously invited to a two-week stint as Artist-in-Residence at OM’s Incarnate arts discipleship school in Budapest, Hungary. The folks at Incarnate have opened their program and very hearts wide open to us. We are eager to share what God does in this time. Are you in the area? Let’s get in touch!
Meet Us in DC!
We’ll be in DC in August. Wanna talk? We’d love to share our vision for the Unsung Arts Collective with you, your friends, church, small group, or whomever else. Let’s get in touch!
Meet us in Yakima!
We want to catch up with you in Washington state this summer! Have questions about Unsung Arts? Ethno-arts? Our work among the unreached? Let’s grab coffee. Reach out and let’s get together.
Unsung Arts at EMDC This Year!
Unsung Arts Collective will represent at EMDC this year! Come to our table, attend our interest group, catch our Minute-at-the-Mic, and even join us for a 1-hour presentation on “Arts in Frontier Missions.”
