Art & Faith Conversations

Lori Putnam is a Contemporary American Impressionist who sees harmony, rhythms, patterns, color and shapes as her subject matter. She has served as an Artist Faculty Demonstrator for the Annual Plein Air Convention for six years and has been a keynote speaker and guest lecturer at many notable events. Lori teaches to sold out workshops and has received numerous awards and accolades for her work.

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Visit Lori's website

https://loriputnam.com

Lauren Midgley is a conceptual fine art photographer who creates evocative and thought provoking imagery. Her photographs blur the line between reality and a dream scape and provide a safe space for conversations about faith, doubt, trauma and healing.

To pre-order the book

https://www.artserveint.org/rota

Visit Lauren's website

https://www.iamwonderandlight.com

Mat Barber Kennedy is a painter who uses primarily watercolour. He represents daily life through depictions of aging machines, tools, and buildings that are constructed in layers, adapting over generations and decaying in pieces. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and of The American Impressionists Society. In 2008 he was awarded the Turner Medal in London.

To pre-order the book

https://www.artserveint.org/rota

Visit Mat's website

http://www.matbarberkennedy.com

Tram Colwin is an artist and designer of custom prints, art work and stationary goods. Tram creates out of a desire to capture beauty in nature and everyday life. Born in Vietnam, her family immigrated in 1996 and found their home in Bentonville, Arkansas where she grew up. With a love for art, Tram got her degree in Fine Art and eventually launched her now full-time business, Tram Colwin Art.

Her work has been featured on WeddingChicks.com, in FLUX Hawaii and At Home Arkansas.

To pre-order the book

https://www.artserveint.org/rota

Visit Tram's website

https://www.tramcolwinart.com

Allison Streett is a sculptor who works with the human figure. She describes in her bio that she hopes to provoke insights into ourselves and those around us, challenge us to acknowledge our true relationship to each other, and invite us to imagine a more just future.

To pre-order the book

https://www.artserveint.org/rota

To connect with Allison

https://www.allisonstreettstudios.com

Freedom Rodriguez is a visual artist who along with his wife, Nancy, run ArtServe International which serves under resourced populations through art and empowers youth to dream beyond poverty and find hope for the future.

Freedom joins me to tell us about his vision for his newest project, Revelations of the Artist. It's a collaborative book of over 20 artists works and statements about their faith and artistic journey. Through the proceeds of the book, the vision is to fund a creative arts center in Ecuador. The Rodriguez's have many experiences from their global travels with working across cultural and economic divides to develop relationships through art.

You can pre-order your own copy of the Revelations of the Artist and be a part of their incredible vision by visiting:

https://www.artserveint.org/rota

I give a wrap up summary of season 5 highlights and reveal an exciting announcement about a current creative endeavor.

As I look ahead to Season 6, I talk about the powerful impact creativity can have as a mediator in these divisive times in our world. Art serves as a bridge to connect people and places that would otherwise remain divided. Listen and share the episode!

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Singer/songwriter, Melanie Penn, has experience in various realms of music from classic voice training to Broadway musicals to independent recording artist. Compelled to write her own songs, she overcame her own lack of confidence and challenges and recorded her first album in 2010 which received critical acclaim. She has since released several albums and singles including her Immanuel project in 2017 which rose to #1 on Amazon's Christian worship and holiday charts. Melanie shares about the various aspects of shaping her artistic voice, mentors, spiritual practices and the message of clarity she hopes to bring through her music.

https://www.melaniepenn.com

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Kris Camealy talks about her newest book, Everything is Yours, an intimate and honest journey of how the art of letting go led her to the depths of God's love. As well as a writer, Kris is founder of Refine(the retreat) and the Refinery artists guild. She hosts an annual retreat for women and curates space for creative and spiritual practices.

Click the links to out more about her work or to order her books

https://refineretreat.com

https://www.amazon.com/Kris-Camealy/e/B00B3LLNEC%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Artist, Hannah Rose Thomas, began a journey of healing when she was asked to organize an art project for Syrian refugees in 2014. She went on to continue this humanitarian work of art and empathy and had the privilege to hear the stories of women in Northern Iraq and Nigeria who had survived incredible trauma and violence. She taught them to paint their own portraits which became a process of healing in restoring their own personhood, something they said was of their highest value. Many of the women painted themselves with tears of gold coming down their face and Hannah has since began compiling her portraits of the women into a book with that very title, Tears of Gold. She describes her work as giving a voice to the voiceless and uses the paintings as tools of advocacy to bring about change.

Her work has been shown in Houses of Parliament, European Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Lambeth Palace, The Saatchi Gallery and Durham Cathedral. Three of Hannah's paintings of Yezidi women were chosen by HRH The Prince of Wales for his exhibition Prince & Patron in Buckingham Palace in 2018.

She is a Durham graduate in Arabic and History, with an MA from the Prince's School of Traditional Art in London. Hannah will be beginning her PhD at Glasgow University in September 2020 with the UNESCO 'Art Lab for Human Rights and Dialogue.'

To connect with her and see her work visit:

http://hannahrosethomas.com

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