Summertime Rolls: Image Issue #46
Is Coming to a Deck Chair Near You
The new issue is here! Writes X.J. Kennedy: "Image 46 is another solid, handsome number. David McGlynn's slice-of-life story and Lyanda Haupt's beautiful essay on Darwin struck me in particular. Tim Hawkinson's art gives me the willies, but perhaps that's what it's meant to do. The array of poems seemed nicely varied, every one worth reading and rereading." All that, plus an interview with Gary Miranda, the art of Brian Mains, Warren Farha on running an indie bookstore, poems by Julianna Baggott, and Catholic critic Nicholas Boyle in review.

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Octavo CDs: Ancient Books Onscreen
A few months ago we noted that a company called Octavo was producing CDs featuring ancient and rare books in vivid, high-resolution format. Well, they're still at it and they sent a couple more on to us. Because some of the rarest and most ancient books and illuminated manuscripts are devotional in nature, a goodly portion of their catalogue will be of interest to our subscribers. True, some of these CDs may be for scholars-for example, we can imagine historians of Church music wanting to pore over John Merbecke's The Booke of Common Praier Noted-the music version of the ancient Anglican liturgy. But William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience might be tempting to the layperson: true, you can get it in book form, but the Octavo CD has two different editions, which let you see how Blake's style and vision changed between 1794 and 1826. Each CD includes commentary by experts and features an easily navigated Adobe PDF file interface. OK, so these CDs may be extravagant purchases, but for the special someone who is hankering for intimacy with a glorious classic text, it'll be the perfect indulgence.

To learn more, click here: http://www.octavo.com.

A Broken Beauty, edited by Theodore L. Prescott
This book may be something of a milestone. As Image editor, Gregory Wolfe, put it in his endorsement blurb: "A Broken Beauty not only sets a new standard for Christian scholarship in the visual arts-as its superb essays, graphic design, and [full-color] reproductions amply demonstrate-but it also proves that contemporary artists of faith are creating a distinguished body of work. The art contained in these pages deserves to be seen as a major contribution to the cultural life of our time." Thanks to the support and vision of a generous patron, the painter Bruce Herman was able to conceive a major art exhibition focusing on the theme of Christian approaches to painting and sculpting the human figure. (We will let you know where the exhibition can be seen when it begins touring this fall.) In turn, the exhibition project has yielded this volume, expertly edited-and with an excellent essay-by Ted Prescott, one of Image's editorial advisors and a frequent contributor to our pages. A Broken Beauty also contains essays by Timothy Verdon, Lisa DeBoer, and Gordon Fuglie (another Image advisor/contributor). As the title indicates, the theme of the book is the way that Christian artists approach the body-as a locus of joy and suffering, wholeness and brokenness. For those who believe in the Passion of Christ, the Greek ideal of perfect wholeness and symmetry is superseded by the paradoxical belief that in brokenness beauty is most powerfully revealed. Among the fifteen contemporary artists featured in this book are a number who have been covered in Image: Stephen De Staebler, Erica Grimm-Vance, Edward Knippers, Timothy Lowly, Mary McCleary, Melissa Weinman, Joel Sheesley, Patty Wickman, and Jerome Witkin.

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To go directly to the website dedicated to the exhibition, click here.

2005 Ad Lib Retreat
Ad Lib, a retreat and forum for Christians practicing in literary, visual, and performing arts, will meet Sept. 29 - Oct. 2 at Saint Malo Retreat and Conference Center in Allenspark, CO. The overarching theme for this year's retreat dwells on the Sabbath, fellowship, and issues facing artists as disciples. Retreatants will also explore the topic "Finding Unexpected Grace" with writer Judith Dupree, whose opening address will "explore the struggle for spiritual clarity and substance in the midst of the pervasive confusion of our time." Others headliners for this year include writers James Calvin Schaap, Jean Janzen, and Harvey Johnson, the regional Director for Christians in Theatre Arts. Attendees are promised enrichment and refreshment in the company of artists and writers, as well as some personal time for reflection and rest. There will also be an artists' display where participants may bring two to three works, including canvases, photographic art, books, music scores, journals, magazines, photos of performances, etc. The poet Scott Cairns, who spoke at the 2003 retreat, has written of Ad Lib: "My thanks to you for including me in that wonderful weekend. The time spent with your sweet community was both exciting and healing." For further information, contact Joanne Irwin, 2078 Apple Valley Rd., Lyons, CO 80540. 303-823-9938, joannekirwin@yahoo.com.

For more information on the Saint Malo center, go to: www.saintmalo.org.

To learn more about Ad Lib, go to: www.adlibchristianarts.org.

Upcoming

The Art, Faith, and Social Justice National Conference:
A Call for Papers

For information on The Art, Faith, and Social Justice National Conference, please click here.

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Come Hear Tom Kimmel, Jan Krist, Pierce Pettis
and John Smith in Seattle!
Seattle's Tractor Tavern is a common spot to catch live music shows anywhere between five to seven nights a week. Depending on the evening, one could hear rock, alternative country, Celtic, folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, and other sundry sounds. When we found out that Tom Kimmel, Jan Krist, Pierce Pettis and John Smith would be playing at the Tavern, we had to get the word out to other Seattleites. These musicians will be doing a song writers in the round on July 21 at the Tractor Tavern-5213 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107. Tickets are $12.

For more info on the Tractor Tavern, go to:
http://tractortavern.citysearch.com/

Angel Face Poetry Journal
From 1995 through 2001, I edited and produced the poetry journal Blue Violin, but for Angel Face I wanted to try something different. Since I am now devoted to the rosary, and have written a book of poems based on the mysteries of the rosary, I decided to arrange the poems in Angel Face according to the pattern of the rosary (according to the Mysteries). Poets need not be Catholic to submit. I have published Jewish and non-Christian poets, as well as Protestant and Catholic poets. I want to see many different viewpoints-secular or religious poetry-but please no rhyme, nothing preachy, negative, or derogatory. The first issue of Angel Face is available for sample. Cost is $6 postpaid. Please make checks payable to myself, Mary Agnes Dalrymple, the editor and publisher of Angel Face (otherwise the bank will not accept the check). I am currently seeking poetry for the second issue and read submissions year-round. Sorry, I can't consider e-mailed submissions or respond to submissions that come without an SASE. Simultaneous and previously published submissions are okay with proper notification. Send work even if you are not sure if it fits the rosary prayer pattern. Detailed guidelines and rosary information can be found at my website: www.maryanka.com. Interested poets can also send an SASE for guidelines. To submit send up to 5 poems (typed please), plus SASE, to Angel Face, c/o MaryAnka Press, P.O. Box 102, Huffman, Texas 77336.

 Getty Research Institute Announces its 2006-07 Grant Theme: Religion and Ritual
The Getty Research Institute invites applications from researchers in the arts, humanities, religious and theological studies, and anthropology-as well as other disciplines-whose projects bear upon the problem of religion, ritual, and the visual arts. No force in human life has motivated the production of art more than religious belief. Yet within post-Enlightenment thought about the visual arts there has been difficulty in coming to grips with the significance that sacred objects and spaces have held for their original beholders, not only as instruments for spiritual observance but also as forms of cognition over a much wider sphere. At a moment when religious belief is only fitfully visible in the intellectual realm, the Getty Research Institute will focus in 2006-2007 on the interrelation of religion and the visual arts, both taken in the broadest senses. The application deadline is November 1, 2005. For general inquiries, email griweb@getty.edu.

For more information about the 2006-2007 theme, click here.

For application information, go here.

Glen Workshop: A Few Spaces Still Left!!!
For those of you who may think it's too late to sign up for this summer's Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico, we've got good news! There are a still a few places left, in the following workshops: Mixed Media (visual art), Watercolor, Poetry, Playwriting, and the Seminar on Native American Art. The dates are July 31 - August 7, 2005. The theme this year is "This Great Unknowing: Drawing Near to Mystery."

To register, feel free to call us at (206) 281-2988 or register directly online (starting here).

For general information about the Glen, click here.

Kathleen Norris to Headline Fall Image Conference
Mark your calendars! The twelfth annual Image Conference will be held November 10-13, 2005 in Houston, Texas. This year's theme: "The Matter of Devotion: Art, Liturgy, and the Stuff of Worship." Speakers will include Kathleen Norris, author of Dakota and The Cloister Walk; philosopher Nicholas Wolterstorff, author of Art in Action; Thomas Lynch, author of The Undertaking; poet Robert Cording; Seven Dance Company; and visual artists Alfonse Borysewicz and Wayne Forte. (More speakers and presenters will be announced in due course.) In his essay "Trumpets, Ashes, and Tears," Wolterstorff describes the "one-plus-six rhythm" that calls believers together to worship on one day each week, then disperses us to do our work in the world for the other six. He describes the complicated tension in our religious heritage that opposes sacred and profane, worship and work. Is worship meant to strengthen us as we return to work, or are our daily pursuits merely a prologue to our devotion? How should the quotidian experiences of joy, suffering, and repentance be given flesh in the language, music, architecture, and visual art that create both the environment for worship and the liturgy that takes place there? The 2005 Image Conference will explore these questions, with particular reference to the ways that art provides the sacramental link between the sacred part of our week and the workaday world of diapers and spreadsheets, shoes and books. A distinguished group of artists and scholars will examine issues including the changing relationship between worship and contemporary culture, both high and low, the ways in which fine art and liturgical art influence one another, and the renewal movements in both traditional and emerging churches.

Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks and months:
http://www.imagejournal.org/conference/

Image Forum: Let Your Voice Be Heard!
As a quarterly journal, Image doesn't have a "Letters to the Editor" section that you see in periodicals that appear more frequently. We've always regretted that, because through our pages--and programs like the Glen Workshop and the Image Conference--we've been striving to build community, to stimulate a larger conversation in artistic and religious circles, both in this country and around the world. Now, thanks to some hard work on our webmaster's part, we've launched the Image Forum, a full-featured online message board system. You now have the chance to post and respond to a host of message threads. Write a virtual Letter to the Editor. Start a thread in any of several different forums devoted to particular art forms. Share your work with others. Let us know how to make the Forum better. Let your voice be heard!

http://forum.imagejournal.org

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