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Day 10

Day 10: our last day!  I think each of us feels as though it’s bittersweet.  We’ve worked hard (very hard) for two long weeks in the studio and so we’re ready for a break and some sweet rest!  But of course, the bitter part is parting and going our separate ways – after we’ve built [...]

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Day 9

Day 9, we started off with talking about the book “God in the Gallery” by Daniel Siedell.  This was the other book we read for our residency together.  This book differed a lot from Hyde’s book, but was nonetheless gave us some insightful things to ponder and discuss.
We had more studio visitors today.  (This was [...]

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Day 8

So as it were, I got swamped the last few days of the residency.  We were all in our own zones and putting our noses to the grindstone.  But it was a real joy to witness the silent determination of each artist in the last few days of this project…and somehow it all sort of [...]

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Day 7

This morning Scott Burnett from UPC shared with us about eager anticipation and what it is to “groan” alongside of creation for completion, wholeness, right-ness. In particular, it seemed we could all resonate with this idea of eager anticipation: we all came in to the residency having some ideas about what we could do, [...]

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Day 6

Today was day 6 (of 10) work days in the studio. Dal Schindell started us off this morning by sharing about his artwork and life story. He TA’d for Hans Rookmaaker and his subject matter ranged from self portraits to asylum patients, skulls and dwarfs. Dal’s work primarily addresses death and conversely, [...]

Day 5

[ Brian Moss has been blogging and doing podcast interviews with each artist.  You can see / hear them here. ]
This morning Joanne (from a patron church) came by the studio to visit with us and hear about what we’re doing.  A few others strolled in as the day progressed, and it was a lot [...]

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Day 4

This morning Roger started us off by talking about some of his work and things God has been teaching him.  He then posed the question to us: where have we seen God show up in our art-making?  We took turns sharing stories from the past, and reflecting on our process up to this point in [...]

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Day 3

Brian Moss started out this morning with the devotion.  He shared with us a poem by Wendell Berry that we all agreed spoke volumes about art “in the making.”  It was refreshing to be still for a few moments with these words today; to let them sink in and become a prayer for our time [...]

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Day 1 and 2 of Vancouver Residency

The Vancouver Project is a Christian artist residency consisting of 6 artists, located in Vancouver, British Columbia.  The project is part of By/For – a non-profit designed to finding creative ways to connect artists and churches to work together, and showing support to artists through patronage.
This 2 week residency (Aug 10-21) is specifically set up [...]