World Canvas Project: Lifting of prayers for creation

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Lifting of prayers for creation

THE WORLD CANVAS PROJECT BEGINS AT LUTHER SEMINARY.

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, USA. The World Canvas Project is a prayer canvas where prayers are first penciled onto the canvas then painted into the canvas. With its beginning at Luther Seminary, the canvas has been part of community at the Minnesota Without Poverty gathering, Global Missions Institute, United Theological Seminary and the Summer Institute in Spirituality & Art. A second canvas is currently in Iraq. – Luther Seminary

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Prayer Canvas

The World Canvas Project began its journey when I was the Artist In Residence at Luther Seminary. The prayers on the World Canvas Project are collectively woven together in color and word. Threads of individual petitions give rise to personal and communal creativity, hope and reconciliation. The finished canvases will either return to Luther Seminary or in the communities where new canvases have begun. Along with many congregations and communities, the World Canvas Project has been part of the East Belfast Mission and the Skainos Project in East Belfast, Northern Ireland; Holden Village, Ghost Ranch, Presbyterian Church of Ireland, The Minnesota Without Poverty, Luther Seminary, Global Missions, United Theological Seminary and the Summer Institute in Spirituality & Art. A second, third and fourth canvas has traveled to Mosul, Iraq; Andhra Pradesh, India; Palestine and Israel; Guatemala.