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May 2015

May 21, 2015

While My Pen Gently Weeps

My daughter Gracie was helping me prepare dinner one evening. We were doing the bœuf...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

There’s No Original Art

What a joy to be knitting something beautiful for a woman I don’t know and...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

Francis and the Via Negativa Part 2

Continued from yesterday. In retrospect, my reaction to Pope Francis’s election makes so much more...

September 2013

September 24, 2013

Art Is Long, Life Is Short

My wife and I were in Chicago over the summer, and as part of our...

September 01, 2013

Art, Risk, & Image‘s Near-Death Experience, Part 2

Guest Post by Stuart Scadron-Wattles Read Gregory Wolfe's part 1 post here. The irony of the...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Art, Risk, & *Image’*s Near-Death Experience

When I chose “Art and Risk” as the theme for Image journal’s 2013 Glen Workshops,...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Learning to See Beauty

When I taught Spanish in public school I projected Hispanic and Latino artwork on my...

November 2012

November 09, 2012

The Fool and the Beloved: Part Two

Guest Post By Stuart Scadron-Wattles Continued from yesterday. At one time during our church life...

November 08, 2012

The Fool and the Beloved: Part One

Guest Post By Stuart Scadron-Wattles I recently gave a guest lecture for a graduate...

October 2012

October 16, 2012

The Poetics of Painting: Part Two

Part Two: Beyond the Image Guest Post By Daniel Siedell Have you ever been underwhelmed...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

The Poetics of Painting: Part One

Part One: Pigments on a Canvas Guest Post By Daniel Siedell With this post we...