This Sunday, January 3

9:15 a.m. in Rm. 310

We'll go over all the project ideas and start working on the how-to for this massive exhibit.

AND HERE ARE THE PAST NOTES::::

PSALMS / PROVERBS INFO MEETING #2

December 20, 2009

ABOUT THE PSALMS PROJECT (title to be determined)

We’re making a wild, stream-of-conscious installation filling the gallery walls floor to ceiling using whatever materials we can come up with.

This is your project.  This is our project.

ABOUT THE BOOK OF PSALMS

“The Book of Psalms represents a rich tapestry of prayer and praise. Some psalms reflect a texture of deep despair, others glow with a deep peace in the Lord's strength, still others bubble with an exuberant exaltation of the Most High God. They cover the range of human emotion and experience. What they all have in common is prayer, a reaching out to God from every imaginable experience.” – Ralph Wilson

Themes

Lament Psalms

 Community

12, 44, 58, 60, 74, 79, 80, 83, 85, 89*, 90, 94, 123, 126, 129

 Individual

3, 4, 5, 7, 9-10, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25, 26, 27*, 28, 31, 36*, 39, 40:12-17, 41, 42-43, 52*, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 61, 64, 70, 71, 77, 86, 89*, 120, 139, 141, 142

Specialized Lament Psalms

Penitential

6, 38, 51, 102, 130, 143

Imprecatory

35, 69, 83, 88, 109, 137, 140

Thanksgiving (Todah) Psalms

 Community

65*, 67*, 75, 107, 124, 136*

 Individual

18, 21, 30, 32*, 34, 40:1-11, 66:13-20, 92, 108*, 116, 118, 138

Specialized Thanksgiving (Todah) Psalms

Salvation History

8*, 105-106, 135, 136

Songs of Trust

11, 16, 23, 27*, 62, 63, 91, 121, 125, 131

Hymnic Psalms

Hymn and Doxology

8*, 19:1-6, 33, 66:1-12, 67*, 95, 100, 103, 104, 111, 113, 114, 117, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150

Liturgical Psalms (for Public Worship)

Covenant Songs

50, 78, 81, 89*, 132

 Royal/Enthronement

2, 18, 20, 21, 29, 45, 47, 72, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 101, 110, 144

Songs of Zion

46, 48, 76, 84, 87, 122

Temple Liturgies

15, 24, 68*, 82, 115, 134

Specialized Types

Wisdom Psalms

1*, 36*, 37, 49, 73, 112, 127, 128, 133

Torah Poems

1*, 19:7-14, 119

PROJECT TIMELINE

January 1 – IDEAS FOR PSALMS PROJECT DUE

January 3 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309.  IDEA CONCEPTUALIZATION

January 17 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309. HOW TO - SUPPLIES

January 31 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309.  WHO’S GOT WHAT - DELEGATE

February 14 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309. TIMELINE, REFINE

February 18 – WISDOM ENTRIES DUE

February 21 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309. REHEARSAL, SCHEDULE

February 22 -25 – FRANTIC INSTALLATION

February 26 – EXHIBIT OPENING

After – LOOK FOR A PUBLISHER

Why so many meetings?  We need to work steadily up until Feb. 26 or we’re going to be overwhelmed and the exhibit will be bad.

NEXT STEPS

STUDY PSALMS. Read or listen to the Psalms and pay special attention to the imagery being used.

GENERATE IDEAS FOR PSALMS (DUE 1-1-10). Write down concepts, processes, materials, and exhibit titles that might be good to include in the gallery installation.  Bradley Speaks and Michael Winters will select the best ideas that will go together for the final install.  These core ideas will provide the framework for everything to connect with.  The exhibit can only be as good or as bad as the ideas we put together.

CONTACT INFO – Send Michael (mwinters@sojournchurch.com) addresses for out-of-town people who you think would like to participate in the “Wisdom” project.

Now at the end of the year, the 'B.C. - From Creation to the Cross' series is complete and can be seen here. Over 20 artists made it come together.  Now moving into 2010 we'll be responding to the New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs.  More to come on those projects soon.

Do you have any favorite B.C. devotional cover images?

Any testimonies out there about how the Spirit taught you something with the images?

I ripped it out of a national geographic.  Macro/Micro.  Intelligent Design.

Entries Due Feb 18^th 2010

Exhibit opens at the 930 Art Center in Louisville, KY on February 26, 2010.

“Like apples of gold in settings of silver, is a word spoken in right circumstances.”

ACTION: Pick a single proverb from the book of Proverbs and illustrate it.

The biblical book ‘Proverbs’ is not only a collection of sayings and observations for wise living, but it is rich in powerful visual language.  Proverbs offers moving insights that confirm our own observations about the world and call us to clearer vision and action as well.

Sojourn Visual Arts is inviting individual artists, classes, and churches around the country to explore the rich wisdom of the proverbs and respond by making images. Sojourn Visual Arts will be displaying 300 selected entries in an exhibit on the Psalms and Proverbs at the 930 Art Center, a gallery owned by Sojourn Church.  The entries will be displayed together in the gallery to demonstrate the diversity of topics in proverbs and the diversity of responses to its wisdom.  Every entry submitted will be displayed on our website.

Any 2-dimensional method of image making is acceptable.  Everyone will work on the same 4x5” mat boards that we will be happy to send to you in the mail with detailed instructions.  There is no cost to participate and you can contact Sojourn Visual Arts to have mat boards and info sent to you directly.

To request a project packet, email mwinters@sojournchurch.com and just let us know how many blank project panels you would like.

All work must be at the 930 Art Center by Feb 18th to be considered for inclusion in the exhibit.

Do you have a favorite image from the BC Devotional covers? Wish you could have one in your home or office? Or give as a Christmas gift?  Starting this Sunday, SVA will have reproductions of this year's BC Devotional images for sale.  The images will be 8x10 prints matted to an 11x14 for $30 ($20 goes to the artist, $10 to SVA). Look for the prints at the booktable or online. If the image you want is not available at the booktable, you can order by emailing mwinters@sojournchurch.com

2nd Psalms Project Planning Meeting

Sunday, December 20

9:15 AM in Room 309

You are invited to come to our second planning meeting for the Psalms Project.

The Psalms Project (yet to be named) will result in a main gallery exhibit at the 930.  We'll study the Psalms, brainstorm ideas, gather materials, and fill the gallery with a wild, stream of conscious response to the Bible's prayer and song book.

Here are the Notes from the first meeting this past Sunday:

ABOUT THE PROVERBS PROJECT, “WISDOM”

ACTION: Pick a single proverb from the book of Proverbs and illustrate it.

The biblical book ‘Proverbs’ is not only a collection of sayings and observations for wise living, but it is rich in powerful visual language.  Proverbs offers moving insights that confirm our own observations about the world and call us to clearer vision and action as well.

Sojourn Visual Arts is inviting individual artists, classes, and churches around the country to explore the rich wisdom of the proverbs and respond by making images. Sojourn Visual Arts will be displaying 300 selected entries in an exhibit on the Psalms and Proverbs at the 930 Art Center, a gallery owned by Sojourn Church.  The entries will be displayed together in the gallery to demonstrate the diversity of topics in proverbs and the diversity of responses to its wisdom.  Every entry submitted will be displayed on our website, www.sojournvisualarts.com.

We’ll also have a night for sojourn adults to participate in making the artwork.  We’ll also have times for the quest kids, and a Sunday for Sojourn Kids.  We’ll also be sending out project panels across the country to individual artists, churches, and other arts ministries.

ABOUT THE PSALMS PROJECT (title to be determined)

We’re making a wild, stream-of-conscious installation filling the gallery walls floor to ceiling using whatever materials we can come up with.

This is your project.  This is our project.

SHOW SWOON VIDEO – Distance Don’t Matter (a good example of a similar process, though not in biblical response)

BRADLEY SPEAKS SHOW INSTALLATION EXAMPLES PPT

COLLECT CONTACT INFO

CCB DISCUSSION BOARD

PROJECT TIMELINE

December 6 (today) – INTRODUCTION

December 20 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309. STUDY PSALMS

January 1 – IDEAS FOR PSALMS PROJECT DUE

January 3 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309.  IDEA CONCEPTUALIZATION

January 17 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309. HOW TO - SUPPLIES

January 31 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309.  WHO’S GOT WHAT - DELEGATE

February 14 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309. TIMELINE, REFINE

February 18 – WISDOM ENTRIES DUE

February 21 – 9:15 a.m. Meet in Rm. 309. REHEARSAL, SCHEDULE

February 22 -25 – FRANTIC INSTALLATION

February 26 – EXHIBIT OPENING

After – LOOK FOR A PUBLISHER

Why so many meetings?  We need to work steadily up until Feb. 26 or we’re going to be overwhelmed and the exhibit will be bad.

NEXT STEPS

STUDY PSALMS. Read or listen to the Psalms and pay special attention to the imagery being used.

GENERATE IDEAS FOR PSALMS (DUE 1-1-10). Write down concepts, processes, materials, and exhibit titles that might be good to include in the gallery installation.  Bradley Speaks and Michael Winters will select the best ideas that will go together for the final install.  These core ideas will provide the framework for everything to connect with.  The exhibit can only be as good or as bad as the ideas we put together.

CONTACT INFO – Send Michael (mwinters@sojournchurch.com) addresses for out-of-town people who you think would like to participate in the “Wisdom” project.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

12:45 p.m. in the Listening Room

RSVP required, email mwinters@sojournchurch.com

By February 26, 2010, we're aiming to complete our most ambitious visual arts project yet. We'll be creating a whole main gallery exhibit installation collaboratively.  The inspiration for the exhibit will come from the books of Psalms and Proverbs, which we'll just be wrapping up in the sermon series.  We'll be getting together to eat pizza, cast vision for the project, show examples of work to emulate, and start the whole process.  Bi-weekly meetings will carry us up through until the time of installation, steadily filling out what aims to be the wildest installation the 930 gallery has yet shown.

We'd be happy for anyone to get involved.  We need idea-generators, fabric crafters, construction-minded folks, etc., etc., so RSVP and join us.