10 Questions for 10 Years | March 4-6, 2010
A bicycle dismantled…a life retrieved. | www.jitenshamovie.com Upcoming Festival Screenings: Sedona International Film Festival, the Davis Film Festival, the Method Fest, the Florida Film Festival and the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film ...
The most significant challenge for an emerging artist today is making the art itself: finding the time, support, and discipline to create a meaningful body of work, despite the demands of daily life. IAM’s Fellows program is designed to foster the discipline that will establish participants as working artists, deepen their thinking, connect them with peers, and help them create work that ...
Reflections of Generosity, a new book by Ron V. Kelsey, an artist and soldier. This collection of wartime epistles, many written during Sgt. Kelsey’s tour in Iraq, is filled with color images of original artwork from a traveling exhibition dedicated to the military community. Sgt. Kelsey joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1999 and continued to study art and religion at Wabash College. After ...
Ten or so years ago, two art students had a plein air performance in common that took place on a perfect New England summer day. The intense heat of the noon day sun mingled with Ben’s coke-bottle eye wear, creating a spark between them that was soon fanned into a flame which then quickly became a blaze glowing in the center of a hearth in the middle of your heart, if you wish. For years, ...
Winner of the 2002 Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a past guest on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz, pianist/composer/vocalist Deanna Witkowski has been heralded for her “consistently thrilling” playing and her “boundless imagination” (All Music Guide). Her 2009 release, From This Place, focuses on her sacred jazz material with musicians including Donny McCaslin and John ...
We’ve all been to conferences where we spend copious amounts of time in small or large rooms trying to absorb as much of the important and salient information being presented as possible. And, we likely don’t ever get a chance to explore the host city, especially if we’ve traveled from out of town. Encounter 10 seeks to mesh the best of both worlds. We have a terrific roster ...
What is a movement, and what does it mean to be a part of one? Movements are organic, yet organized; ideological, yet they call to action. They ask hard questions, and don’t expect easy answers. They foster change. They strive to build what ought to be in the midst of what is. A movement only survives by the passion of those involved in carrying out its mission. IAM is such a movement. A ...
10 Questions for 10 Years. 2010. 10 years into the 21st century, IAM’s Encounter 10 will look onward to the next 10 years. Asking 10 questions that will impact our movement and culture throughout the coming decade, we will cast vision for where we can be and what kind of cultural impact we can make. Over the coming weeks, we will be introducing these important 10 questions. Our exciting ...
Eighth grade was full of ups and downs for David Sacks. Up because he got his first girlfriend that year. Down because her name was Buffy. Up because she kissed him. Down because it happened to be the day that he got braces on his teeth. Up because she had braces, too. Down because she abruptly dumped him the following month. Up because he was given a used 35mm camera for his ...
JEFFREY OVERSTREET started lookingcloser.org in 1996, the same year he began writing what would become the first book of his series The Auralia Thread. His writing on film and music on the site quickly became a hub for discussion about the relationship between faith and art, leading to the publication of his “memoir of dangerous moviegoing” — Through a Screen Darkly — in 2007, the same ...
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