What is the role of the artist in today’s world?

Author Mitali Perkins will lead a panel discussion with photographer Ralph Anderson, iconographer Sharon Henthorn-Iwane, and artist Carol Aust. They will explore their callings as artists and their attempts to speak truth in a visual way to our searching world. Can visual artists find doors to truth that the spoken word can’t access, penetrating barriers that result in transformation? Are there intersections of justice and the prophetic word through the arts? Can we lean into God’s timing, the different pace of creativity?

Works by the artists will be shared. Refreshments provided.

The discussion will be live streamed for those who cannot join us in person.

Free Admission. Suggested Donation.

ABOUT THE PANELISTS/MODERATOR
Ralph Anderson began as a painter in New York, and is now a Bay Area fine art and portrait photographer who “allows lighting to lead the way to photograph moody, painterly images…to look deeper and capture the mood and the emotion.” Carol Aust works in acrylics on canvas and wood panels from her studio in Oakland, California. Her figurative paintings are emotionally charged narrative fragments which express the human need for connection and belonging and the difficulty of achieving either. Sharon Henthorn-Iwane has led others in prayer for over twenty years as a general spiritual director, a director of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, and an iconographer, “making the invisible visible” through her art. Mitali Perkins writes books for young readers which explore crossing different kinds of borders. Her goal is to make readers laugh or cry, preferably both, as long as their hearts are widening. She lives and writes in the East Bay.

LOCATION

Our City Center Church, 94705