art and spirituality

Art is Moving chats with John Brandon Sills about how he personally moves through fear to make his art and how you can do it too. For more from John, visit: http://johnbrandonsillsfineart.com/

Learn more about the Take an Art Break Movement on the Art is Moving website here.

Michaell Magrutsche is an Austrian-Californian multimedia Artist, educator, author of five art-related books, podcaster, coach, creative advisor and former Newport Beach arts commissioner.

Michaell has resolved the paradox as to why 95% of worldwide artists exist around the poverty level and therefore should be proud to be poor. But without creativity, there are no man-made systems and there would be no world as we know it.

The solution: discovering patterns within Art that foster creative communication and identifying art values outside any systems which raise our human potential.

Website: https://michaellm.com/self-aware-art-education

Lisa and Lauren of Art is Moving discuss art and spirituality with Michelle Favreault of RiteHereNow (https://riteherenow.com/). Michelle dives into her experience with using art as a tool to focus, how art can be used when you don't have the vocabulary to express with words, how art can teach you about yourself and someone else at the same time and so much more. 

Learn more about the Take an Art Break Movement on the Art is Moving website here.

Lisa and Lauren chat with Diane Williams (https://ianiworkshops.com/) about how art connects you with yourself, your ancestors and the rest of the world.

Learn more about the Take an Art Break Movement on the Art is Moving website here.

What is prayer? Why does it matter? Is there a right way to pray? Join Kayla Craig, Lindsy Wallace, and Alissa Molina as they enter into an engaging, unexpected, fast-paced conversation with Justin McRoberts and Scott Erickson; the authors of Prayer: Forty Days of Practice. We talk about praying when you don’t want to pray or don’t know how, being angry at God, creation as a form of prayer, and why prayer is an important part of God’s upside-down Kingdom.

Justin McRoberts is an author and musician who hosts the @Sea Podcast and lives with his wife and two kids in the Oakland/San Francisco Bay area. Scott Erickson is a touring painter and performance artist who mixes autobiography, biblical narrative, and aesthetics to create art. He lives with his wife and three kids in Portland.

In this episode, we:

• Discuss how our understandings of prayer can grow and change over time;
• Address why prayer can feel contrived or unnatural;
• Ask why art and prayer are important in God’s Kingdom;
• Talk about lament, anger, and privilege when it comes to prayer
• Answer how writing and creating can be redemptive tools.

Join us as we dive into prayer, creativity, and spirituality. 

Recommended reading & resources:

• Authors: Justin McRoberts + Scott Erickson
• Book: Prayer: Forty Days of Practice

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