Here’s one last hoorah for Moyra Blayney, our previously featured artist. Moyra is opening a coffee-house show in Belfast in mid-September… If you haven’t read about Moyra and her work yet, check out our interview.
Archive - August, 2009
Moyra Blayney Encore…
Art and The Church…
Some very well articulated thoughts on the need for art in the church over at Just Images…
Great photography there as well… Check it out.
Discussion Starters for Activating Artists…
As we come up on the end of August, we thought we’d review some of the great ideas that we’ve gleaned from artists that we talked to this summer:
Painter, Moyra Blayney sells her landscape work through a coffeehouse that donates their consignment fees to charities…
Gloria Mendez teaches craft and beadwork classes at her church and works with a local nun to help her become self-supporting…
John Prichard, a student-filmmaker, produced a short film to promote the new work of a foreign missionary…
Mixed-media artist, Kathie Luther, mixes artistic expression with prophetic and end-times images to express provocative ideas about the Christian life…
Stagecraft-trained writer, Tim Jones, uses his gifts to produce dramatic presentations for church outreach…
What kind of service/ministry are you doing with your gifts? Share thoughts and ideas here…
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Crowd-sourced Content…
We’re really excited about a new concept in crowd-sourced content that we’ve been invited to beta test…
What this means for WOP…
First, it means that we can include syndicated content from other top thinkers in the field of arts in ministry… There are thousands of bloggers that only blog about art or worship occasionally in their personal blogs… WOP will give those bloggers a platform to promote these aspects of their writing to our focused interest-group… by simply adding a tag…
Second, it means that friends, fans and readers can contribute to the conversation at WOP in a meaningful way… Let’s face it, sometimes you have more to say about a post than a limited comment… So, blog it, tag it and create a forum for discussion…
Finally, it allows us to have the benefits of an online community without the hassle of joining another social networking site… Because, how long has it been since you logged into anything besides Twitter or Facebook anyway? And that’s how you’ll login to contribute to WOP: with an account at either of the 2 most popular social networking sites on the web…
What the “private beta” means for you…
Right now, contributor participation is by invitation only… Mostly because the host site is in beta which means there are bugs sometimes… We don’t want our content to suffer because we’re trying to manage bug-feedback from an unlimited number users…
So, if you want to become one of our beta testers, you have to request an invitation… Just use our contact form and say, “I want to contribute content.” We’ll send you more specific instructions along with an invite…
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FlickrFriday
We’re back in business with FlickrFriday… now powered by Flickrshow. Our photographic artists from all over the world contribute through our Flickr group…
Flickrshow will appear here!
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