World Canvas Project: July 2010

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Worship at United Theological Seminary

NEW BRIGHTON, MINNESOTA, USA. The World Canvas was part of the worship service at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. From the Litany: We come with prayers both spoken and unspoken, trusting in your promise to hear us. With strokes of paint and the swirl of brushes, we offer our thanks, petitions, praise and confession. Guide our hands and search our hearts. We offer our prayers to you, O God. – UTS, Bigelow Chapel

Images © Genesis+Art Studio

Prayers for Global Missions

ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, USA. The World Canvas Project was part of the Global Missions Institute gathering at Luther Seminary. Students from around the world, faculty and friends of the seminary gathered in community and to hear a presentation from Dr. Guillermo Hansen. – Luther Seminary

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.