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.