10 Questions for 10 Years | March 4-6, 2010

Etsuro Sotoo was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1953. In 1977 he graduated from the Kyoto University of Fine Arts and worked as a teacher in Japan. In 1978 he started working in Barcelona as a sculptor in the Temple of the Sagrada Familia, designed by Antoni Gaudi`. He has been a professor at the Escola Taller attached to ...

Brent Everett Dickinson is a contemporary visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He creates elaborate, conceptually driven, multimedia installations that split the difference between rigorous theory and overt biography. His work is a complicated aggregate that is charged, formally promiscuous, ...

Mark Chambers is an award winning composer, conductor, and performer. His compositions display both intuitive and rational qualities while exploring spiritual and theological concerns. On the surface his music can oscillate from moments of quiet reflection to lyrical expression to dramatic outbursts. On a deeper level ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daniel A. Siedell is Director of the Whale & Star Foundation, Miami, Florida and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.  From 1996-2007 he served as Curator of the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  Siedell ...

Roberta Green Ahmanson is a writer and philanthropist whose public activities are focused on deepening awareness and understanding of the role of religion in public life, the importance of knowing history to understand the present, and the vital role the arts play in shaping human experience. Since 1986, Ahmanson has ...

As a successful artist in Japan and the U.S., Makoto Fujimura has emerged as a voice of authority on the nature and cultural assessment of beauty, by both creating it and exploring its forms. Recognized by both faith-based (Christianity Today, WORLD Magazine) and secular (MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, Forbes) media as ...

Jacob Marshall is an artist, an aesthetic theorist, and an American drummer and co-creator of the band MAE.  He spends most of his time contemplating the vast intricacies of the universe, and how to help put an end to all of those drummer jokes. He spent the first 4 years of life traveling North America with his ...

A gifted communicator, visionary and leader, Matt is the Senior Pastor of Woodmen Valley Chapel in Colorado Springs. Matt is an ardent advocate for the arts, and values art in worship and beyond as a means to reflect and reveal the beauty, truth and goodness of God. Matt is an active member of the International Arts ...