Art & Music
Professional Organizations
Christians in the Visual Arts
Christians in the Visual Arts exists to explore and nurture the relationship between the visual arts and the Christian faith.
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International Arts Movement
IAM gathers artists and creative catalysts to wrestle with the deep questions of art, faith and humanity in order to inspire the creative community to engage the culture that is and create the world that ought to be.
For more information:
http://www.internationalartsmovement.org
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Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers
The CFAMC seeks to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ and help build His Kingdom by encouraging Christian fellowship among its members in the context of their work and witness as composers of art music. We pray that believers will embrace our musical integrity because of our Christian witness, and that our commitment to musical excellence will allow us to bring our Christian witness to the wider art music world.
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Christian Performing Artists' Fellowship
The CPAF seeks to bring the love of Christ to a relatively untouched mission field: the many thousands involved in the world of the performing arts. This includes performers, teachers, and audiences, as well as arts administrators. CPAF is organized as a trans-denominational ministry dedicated to performing and teaching the classical arts to the glory of God and to spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Internships available!
For more information:
http://www.christianperformingart.org/index.html
Christians in Theatre Arts
Encouraging and Equipping Christians in Theatre Arts to impact the world and further the kingdom of God, for over 20 years!
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EMI's Association for Christian Design Professionals
EMI is a ministry of, for and to architects, engineers, surveyors and other design professionals, as well as the clients we serve. In 1982 EMI began by a volunteer design professional helping a Christian ministry to the poor with design services. To this day, every project we do involves volunteer design professionals.
For more information:
http://www.emiworld.org/network_intro.php
Other Resources
Image Journal: Art - Faith - Mystery
A leading literary journal devoted to demonstrating the continued vitality and diversity of contemporary art and literature that engage with the religious traditions of Western culture.
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The Mount Tabor Ecumenical Centre for Art and Spirituality
Barga, Italy & Orleans, MA
Promotes visual and performing arts, organizes educational programs, and facilitates ecumenical exchange. Provides a context for reflection and discussion about faith and creativity, contemplation and communication, liturgy and beauty.
The Mount Tabor Centre also offers spiritual retreats and study visits, organizes lectures and international symposia on issues and trends in the arts today, facilitates ecumenical dialogue on monastic history and spirituality in music and the arts, and presents choral concerts, theatre productions, and exhibits of contemporary sacred art.
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Conferences & Events
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Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers
October 6-8, 2016--- Mississippi College -- Clinton, MS
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http://www.cfamc.org/#conference
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EMI Network 2016 - Designing a World of Hope
October 27- 29, 2016 - San Diego, CA
For more information:
http://emiworld.org/network_conference.php
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May 2017 - PARIS — STRASBOURG — FLORENCE — USA
For more information:
http://www.artsandecumenism.org/
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Academic Programs
Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
ITIA is a research institute based at St Mary’s College, the Divinity School of the University of St Andrews, Scotland.
ITIA aims to advance and enrich an active conversation between Christian theology and the arts — bringing rigorous theological thinking to the arts, and bringing the resources of the arts to the enterprise of theology. As part of this, it seeks to explore the role of the imagination in the arts, as part of a wider theological interest in the imaginative aspects of our humanity.
For more information:
http://itia.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Initiatives in Theology and the Arts
Duke University - Durham, NC
DITA is an innovative venture at the heart of the Divinity School led by cutting-edge teaching and research. It is dedicated to showing how the arts can be enriched by theology, and theology in turn renewed through the arts.
DITA seeks to intergrate three main components: research, teaching, and art in action.
For more information:
https://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives-centers/dita
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Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts
Fuller Theological Seminary- Pasadena, CA
Brehm Center is a Christ-centered, spiritually nourishing community that guides and resources leaders to care for culture, creatively explore and express their calling, and critically integrate worship, theology, and the arts.
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Institute of Sacred Music
Yale University - New Haven, CT
Offers students unparalleled opportunities for in-depth study and interdisciplinary engagement. All students create connections between their chosen fields and explore the role of the arts in human flourishing. As skilled artists and thinkers, our graduates become leaders in the Church, the academy, and major arts-related institutions.
ISM fellowships are granted to scholars and artists whose work relates to the mission of the Institute. Relocating to New Haven for one or two academic terms, they are integrated into Institute and university life through teaching and sharing their work.
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