OM ArtsLink update
3 January 2007 Leave a Comment
My wife and I lunched with Geinene Carson and her husband, Mat, while at the Urbana 2006 conference. Geinene launched ArtsLink a few years ago, and I talked to her while at Portland’s Missions Fest Northwest in 2005.
ArtsLink offers short-term mission trips for visual artists through OM. Geinene is a painter and has served with OM for roughly seven years now. Her aspirations for the program go beyond mission trips, however, and some of her other goals are particularly thrilling to me.
She mentioned that building rapport in the Christian art community has been difficult. Last year she mentioned a trip to a nearby Christian college art program where even the head of the department was weary — weary of the quality of the art. He assumed that the program would likely sacrifice quality and imagination for pious routine.
In response, she suggested that some of his own students become involved as a way to ensure the artistic quality of the projects.
One of Geinene’s prints:
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