CIVA 2009 Biennial Conference
As artists, critics, theologians, pastors, historians, curators, art educators and patrons we must re-examine the complex relationship between art, faith, and culture. How should Christians in the visual arts engage with culture (or cultures)? Are we called to critique or appropriate? Transform of transcend? The way that we speak and think about culture(s) radically affects everything from how artists make their work to the valuations of collectors, from our casual "art talk" to our formal scholarship.
Join us June 18-21 at Bethel University in Minneapolis, MN for a freshly designed, highly interactive event and come put your stamp on this CIVA conversation.
Register online now at the CIVA store! (http://www.civa.org/store/conference)
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membership information
Who belongs to CIVA? Fine artists and designers, educators and architects, art historians and art critics, photographers and filmmakers, gallery directors and museum curators, academics and pastors, and friends and patrons of the arts, all from a wide variety of denominational affiliations. With a growing membership based in North America, CIVA sends publications to over 6800 people in more than twenty countries.
FEATURED
New CIVA Traveling Exhibition - Art + Text
This exhibition brings together sculptors, painters, photographers, graphic artists, mixed media, installation, and video artists who explore a variety of ways to use art and text to express their personal attitudes, opinions and faith.
Although not used here as a medium of description, and never doctrinaire, the text, actual or suggestive, plays a primary role. It puts much of the responsibility of interpretation on the viewer—possibly resulting in a construal that may not be entirely compatible with the artists’ intentions.
While borrowing a page from conceptual and post conceptual tenets, placing predominance on the idea, the artists serve as facilitators who lead the audience to a place of introspection.
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