A Visual Artist’s Bookshelf

Art is Everywhere: The Artist in Us AllOctober 2, 2004

Orchard Hill Church, Grand Rapids, MI

Betsy Steele Halstead, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Books of the Past are Books for Today

Introduction

Francis A. Schaeffer, Art & the Bible

“Christianity is not just “dogmatically” true or “doctrinally” true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole [person] in all of life.”

“The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”

Nicholas Wolterstorff, Art in Action

“At the foundation of the alternative which I propose is the thesis that works of art are instruments and objects of action – and then, of an enormous diversity of actions. Hence the title: Art in Action. What I propose is a functional approach to art.”

Calvin Seerveld

Jeremy Begbie says of Seerveld –

“Few have done as much in the last 20 years to put the arts firmly on the agenda of the Church. He has refused to let us off the intellectual hook, insisting that we press the implications of the Gospel into every corner of the arts world.”

Psalms Out for

Symposium 2005

Bearing Fresh Olive Leaves

A Christian Critique of Art and Literature

Rainbows for the Fallen World

Clip ArtClemens Schmidt, The Church Year and the Art of Clemens Schmidt (with CD-Rom)

Lynn Joyce Hunter, Graphics for Worship 2.0 (CD-Rom)

Banners

Pamela Hardiman &Josephine Niemann,Raise the Banners High!

Pamela Hardiman &Josephine Niemann,

Raise the Banners High!

Vestments

David Philipart (ed),

Clothed in Glory

CalligraphyTimothy R. Botts,

Portraits of the Word

Illustration …especially for children (of all ages)

Margaret Wise Brown, The Runaway Bunny

Madeline L’Engle, The Glorious Impossible

Shel Silverstein, The Giving

Tree

Brian Wildsmith, St. Francis

Vessels to Furnishings

Regina Kuehn,A Place for

Baptism

David Philippart (ed), Basket, Basin, Plate, and

Cup

Charles McCollough, Faith Made Visible

Installations

Nancy Chinn, Spaces for Spirit

Mosaics

Stained glassSarah Hall,

The Color of Light

Marc Chagall, The Jerusalem Windows

Tribe of Joseph

First sketch, approx. 7”x5”

Final model, approx. 16”x12”

Finished window, 133x98”

Architecture

Judith Dupre, Churches

Gregory Wolfe, Sacred Passion: The Art of William

Schickel

Encouragement & Inspiration

…for artist and observer

Marilyn McEntyre,Drawn to the Light

Marilyn McEntyre, Drawn to the Light

Marilyn McEntyre, Drawn to the Light

… from a contemporary artist

The Psalms

Anneke Kaai

In a Word

Anneke KaaiThe Psalms: An Artist’s Impression

Lectionary ResourceImaging the Word: An Arts and Lectionary

Resource

Kenneth Lawrence (ed)

Volume One

Susan Blain (ed)Volume Two

Sharon Gouwens (ed)Volume Three

Imaging the Word, Vol. 2

(Pentecost – You of Little Faith)

Global Focus

Masao Takenaka,The Bible Through Asian

Eyes

Images of Christ

Ron O’Grady (ed),Christ For All People

Frederick Beuchner,The Faces of Jesus

Biblical Study

Gene Edward Veith, Jr.,The Gift of Art

and

State of the Arts

Dictionary of Biblical Imagery

Leland Ryken, James C Wilhoit, Tremper Longman III (general editors)

Symbolism

Practical guides … for the Church

James & Susan White,Church Architecture

Christopher Irvine & Anne Dawtry,

Art and Worship

Janet Walton,Art and Worship

Richard Giles,Re-Pitching the Tent

Practical guides … for the ArtistHilary Brand and Adrienne Chaplin,

Art and Soul: Signposts for Christians in the Arts

Reformed Thought

Paul Corby Finney (ed),Seeing Beyond the Word

William A. Dyrness,Visual Faith

Christianity and the Arts

Jeremy Begbie (ed),Beholding the Glory

Aesthetics

Frank Burch Brown,Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian

Taste

Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (ed),Art, Creativity and the Sacred

Conclusion – A Christmas List

PastorsPastors Church LibrariesChurch Libraries (for committee & congregational

use)

ArtistsArtists

• Theological Study: Seerveld, Rainbows for the Fallen World

• Practical: White, Church ArchitectureLawrence, Imaging the Word

• Inspiration: McEntrye, Drawn to the Light

• Biblical/Theol. Study: Schaeffer, Art and the BibleDryness, Visual Faith

• Practical:Chinn, Spaces for SpiritWalton, Art and Worship

• Inspiration:Kaai, The Psalms

• Study of Integration: Irvine & Dawtry, Art & WorshipWolterstorff, Art in Action

• Practical: Brand, Art and Soul

• Inspiration: The masters & contemporary colleagues

For everyone – Biblical study – Ryken, Leland Dictionary of Biblical Images Children’s books – Challenging us to keep things simply beautiful and let our imaginations fly

From Reading to Action…

Artist/Artisan

Pastor/Worship Committee

“A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community... God has set things up so that cultural endeavor is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.” Calvin Seerveld

“The more exclusively we acknowledge Christ as Lord, the more wide the range of

his dominion will be revealed to us.”Dietrich Bonhoeffer