Episcopal Church & Visual Arts

ECVA - Praying the Hours -2022

Our new exhibition—

ECVA - Praying the Hours -2022

ECVA has a new exhibition online, 'Stories from the Road.' ecva.org Image: detail from Lisa Thorpe's 'From Sea to Sky and Back Again.'

We have a new exhibition planned for Fall 2021. Renew your membership now at ECVA.org and get emails and updates on this and upcoming plans for ECVA.

ECVA - The Jesus Movement - Exhibition Geraldine Benfante Jason Breen Toni Cheshire Shin-hee Chin Anne Cameron Cutri Elizabeth de Sherbinin Gerard Di Falco Gary Gorby Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG Brandon Hudson Linda Hunter

Some of our art for the new exhibit is featured in the May issue of Episcopal Journal----

Episcopal Journal May Issue

CALL TO ARTISTS
ECVA is pleased to announce its next exhibition, “The Jesus Movement: Loving, Liberating and Life-giving.” The exhibition will present artworks conveying the theme of the 2018 General Convention of the Episcopal Church and will be digitally displayed at ECVA.org. ECVA members Frank and Victoria Logue will curate.

CURATORS' STATEMENT
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry refers to our church as the Episcopal Branch of the Jesus Movement, making clear that we Episcopalians are part of the larger work of what God is doing in our world. An Episcopal Task Force on Social Media created a Tweet length definition of Episcopal evangelism: "We seek, name and celebrate Jesus' loving presence in everyone's stories - then invite people to MORE."

The Good News of Jesus is not self-centered, but directed outward. Bishop Curry wrote in Following the Way of Jesus that God came in the person of Jesus to show us how to be reconciled to one another and all creation, so that we might move from the nightmare our world has become to reflect God's dream: "None left out. None shut out as enemies. None broken and tossed aside. All of us beloved. All of us reconciled."

Visual artists seek, name, and celebrate God's Loving, Liberating and Life-giving presence in ways that invite the viewer to a deeper engagement with the movement of the Holy Spirit. Artists work beyond the limits of language to inspire, provoke, and challenge us to see our world anew. In every age, artists have used their vision to deepen our understanding of God. This vital contribution to the church has offered those outside the faith a way to experience the Jesus Movement and share the Good news without words.

In our increasingly fragmented world, the Gospel of Jesus continues to be the Good News for which society hungers without knowing what will satisfy the longing. Artists have a singular way to draw those who hunger closer to the Bread of Life. From the icon of Christ Pantocrator at the base of Mount Sinai to Dali's depictions of the crucifixion, artists have offered a unique lens through which to see God's dream. This exhibition seeks to share afresh the Loving, Liberating and Life-giving Gospel in which all are connected to their creator and none are left out.

- Frank and Victoria Logue, Curators

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE IS APRIL 2, 2018
Digital submissions will be accepted until April 2, 2018 by email to [email protected].

CRITERIA FOR ARTIST ENTRY
Current members of The ECVA Artist Registry are invited to submit images of works in 2D and 3D, video and film. Member artists are encouraged to submit up to 2 works for this exhibition. Exhibition curators will make selections from entries received; submission of an entry to this exhibition is not a guarantee of inclusion in this exhibition. To learn more about The ECVA Artist Registry, to join, or to renew membership, visit The Artist Registry at ECVA.

YOUR SUBMISSION
For each submission:
a) Send a digital image that is 72 dpi, and is 600px on the longest side, and is under 1MB, and is in jpg, tif or png format; and,
b) Name your image file this way: your name and artwork title; example: John_Smith_Joy.jpg; and,
c) For video/film works, in addition to a digital image (still shot) from your video, include a link to your video at Vimeo or YouTubeRed account; videos from YouTubeStandard accounts will not be considered; and,
d) Submit an artist statement for each entry and one artist bio, together about 300 words. If a work has been collaboratively executed, please submit group statements; and,
e) Include your name; and,
f) Include your preferred email address; and,
g) Include your contact phone number that the curators can use to contact you if they have questions.

Peace on Earth---

During Advent, we have been posting images from our current exhibit for you to use for the centering practice of visio divina. Each weekly album has been based on a portion of the bidding prayer from Advent Lessons and Carols. So, now, in this last week of Advent we offer these images and also invite you to visit our webpage at ecva. org.
Dear People of God: Let us remember before God his pure and lowly Mother, and that whole multitude which no one can number, whose hope was in the Word made flesh, and with whom, in Jesus, we are one for evermore.

During Advent, we would like for you to join us in the centering practice of visio divina. We will be posting weekly albums of images from our current exhibit that you may wish to use and we invite you to look at images from our previous exhibits posted on our website, ecva. org. Each weekly album is based on a portion of the bidding prayer from Advent Lessons and Carols.
Dear People of God: Let us pray for the needs of the whole world, for peace and justice on earth, for the unity and mission of the Church for which he died, and especially for his Church in our country and in our cities.
And because he particularly loves them, let us remember in his name the poor and helpless, the cold, the hungry, and the oppressed, the sick and those who mourn, the lonely and unloved, the aged and little children, as well as those who do not know and love the Lord Jesus Christ.

During Advent, we would like for you to join us in the centering practice of visio divina, We will be posting weekly albums of images from our current exhibit that you may wish to use and we invite you to look at images from our previous exhibits posted on our website at ecva.org----each weekly album will be based of a portion of the bidding prayer from Advent Lessons and Carols.
Dear People of God: In the season of Advent, it is our responsibility and joy to prepare ourselves to hear once more the message of the Angels, to go to Bethlehem and see the Son of God lying in a manger.
Let us hear and heed in Holy Scripture the story of God's loving purpose from the time of our rebellion against him until the glorious redemption brought to us by his holy Child Jesus, and let us look forward to the yearly remembrance of his birth with hymns and songs (and art) of praise-----

Christmas on the Bayou, artist Joy Jennings.

Nocturne: Nights of Advent and Epiphany---from our current exhibit, Telling God Stories in the 21st Century. Please visit our website at www. ecva. org to read the artist's statement by The Rev. Doug Earle.

Nocturns--ECVA This is "Nocturns--ECVA" by Gene Cantwell on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

More images from our new exhibit---please visit our website at www.ecva.org. to view the entire exhibit---

More images from the new exhibit----please go to our website at www.ecva.org to view the entire exhibit----

More images from our new exhibit---please go to our website at www.ecva.org to read the artists' statements as we share with you our way of telling God stories through art---

For the next several days we will be posting art from our new exhibit, please go to our website at www. ecva.org to read the artists' statements as we share with you our way of telling God stories through art---

Episcopal Church & Visual Arts, Inc. (A 501c3 Corporation) is pleased to present its Fall 2017 exhibition, 'Telling God Stories in the 21st Century.' http://ecva.org

Do take time to read the artist statements in this exhibition, each cloaking an invitation to enter the thin spaces these ECVA artists inhabit. Their art is a visual journal of their spiritual inquiry; as Emerson writes, they "go where there is no path and leave a trail," this trail, this art.

ECVA - Telling God Stories Exhibition - Richard Bellows Artist Statement: Richard Bellows photographed this picture of God playing with leaves and their reflection on water. It may look as if it were a distortion of reality, but it is real, as proven by the pine needles and debris floating on the surface of the water.

CALL TO ARTISTS - 'WATER'- SUBMISSIONS DUE NOV 8, 2017

ECVA member artists are invited to submit works on the theme of 'Water.' One work will be selected and will be featured to represent ECVA in the Winter 2017-2018 Issue of Anglican Theological Review. Please take into consideration that the artwork image will published in black and white.

To be considered for selection. send your submission as a jpg (72dpi, 800px on longest side) on or before Nov 8, 2017 to [email protected] with the following information: artist name; artwork name; medium; date of creation; statement 500 words or less.

The O Antiphons -
Praising The Names Of Jesus

ECVA’s exhibition, “The O Antiphons - Praising the Names of Jesus”, features the work of more that fifteen artists employing a wide range of media. The call for artists was issued during Advent 2016.

The exhibition was curated by Dr. Paula Artac, a professional watercolor artist, art therapist, university instructor, liturgical art designer, illuminator and author. She writes in her introductory statement, “Advent is the ideal time to create our sacred space to reflect on the identity of Jesus, as prayed in the O Antiphons, and to experience His tangible presence, the incarnate proof of God’s love for us.”

See the exhibit online at http://ecva.org/exhibition/o-antiphons/curator-statement.html

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