Hello,

Art draws from the abundance of the cosmos, and if we recognize this grace, it moves us towards adoration. This is why we must exercise imagination, perception, and play. Without the generous language of art Christians cannot successfully share benedictions, mediate on the mysterious, or make room in our lives for God, who we will one day experience as Absolute Beauty.

Art, therefore, is the proper language of adoration. The poet Oscar Williams believes it is through creative adoration we reach, the “very muscle of miracle,” easing the weight and length of Beauty into our small impoverished lives. In our technological age we need art to help us acclimate to Beauty’s continual pounding of abundant marvels.

Join us at IAF on Monday night where Steve Garber and friends further examine the grace of God’s abundance.

Sincerely,

Carolyn Halpin-Healy


I am a lecturer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the founding executive director of Arts & Minds. Our mission is to improve well-being for the growing number of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias by providing high quality visual arts programs in art museums, senior centers and nursing homes. As a longtime uptown resident I am committed to bringing the healing power of art to underserved communities of Harlem and Washington Heights. 

While Corpus Christi Church is my home parish, Redeemer has come into my life in important ways. Most recently, I have had the tremendous honor of being selected as the winner in the arts category of the Ei Business Plan Competition. This has been an amazing experience on so many levels! Now, Redeemer support is helping Arts & Minds to expand our programs and to develop our website, www.artsandminds.org, to be launched this Fall. Until then, email me or find Arts & Minds on Facebook. 

My hope is for Arts & Minds to flourish and for new avenues of funding to open that will allow us to bring the power of art to more people in need.

SPARC: Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide is an artists-in-resisidence program through NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs. Application deadline is Sept 30. nyc.gov/culture

Mother Clara Hale Bus Depot - The MTA is seeking artists' images of their work in order to select a finalist for the Depot Project. Submit images here.

Vocation Groups

SEPT 12 - Dance Industry, Filmmakers , Writers, Fashion Industry, Actors, and Arts Leaders will meet at IAF

SEPT 15 - Writers Group

View calendar for later dates


Interarts Fellowship

SEPT 12 - The Artist and Abundance

FALL JUDIED ART EXHIBITION
Submissions are due September 16. For submission guidelines and details please click here.

2012 BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION KICK-OFF
We invite all those with new or soon-to-be launched ventures to come & participate in the 2011 Competition. The Kick-off is a chance for you to to meet the community -- previous winners, finalists, judges, coaches, and investors -- all of whom make the Competition an innovative, exciting, and helpful program to serve the broader Redeemer community.

GOSPEL & CULTURE LECTURE: SEPT 26, 2011
Graceful Citizenship - A Conversation on Christian Civility and the Common Good
Tickets Required. $15 in Advance. $20 at the Door. PURCHASE HERE
City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era
Book by Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner
Foreword below by Tim Keller

In the mid-twentieth-century, H. Richard Niebuhr wrote his classic Christ and Culture, which helped mainline Christian churches think through ways to relate faith to politics. In the end Niebuhr came down on the side of universalism, the view that ultimately God is working to improve things through all kinds of religions and political movements. The result of his work was to lead mainline Protestant churches to become uncritical supporters of a liberal political agenda (though Niebuhr himself opposed such a move.)...

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GOSPEL & CULTURE CONFERENCE: NOV 4-5, 2011
Seeing God at Work. Work Re-Envisioned. Join Us.
REGISTER NOW!
On November 4-5, 2011, the Center for Faith & Work will host 500 participants for an extraordinary event focused on seeing God powerfully at work in our midst – a reality often overlooked as we live and work in the city...

CULTURE CLUB: THE FANTASTICKS & NY PHILHARMONIC 
Join us on Sept 16 for The Fantasticks or Oct 28 for the NY Philharmonic. Visit the Culture Club website for more info and to sign up. Culture Club creates opportunities to learn about and experience the arts in NYC.