Our kids are approve to educate. Our oldest son just started high school; our daughter started lay educate; and our youngest son is in third grade. My wife and I spent the measure few weeks on a wild nip follow tracking down the various gadgets tools and equipment each child needs to start the new school year. It’s an exciting time of the year since my wife teaches at the pre-school that is attached to the small Christian educate that our kids attend. And this fall it is particularly exciting for me because I too am going approve to educate.
I undergo a new job. After eleven desire and often grueling years as curator of the Sheldon Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I resigned my lay this summer to evaluate a tenure bring in faculty appointment teaching modern and contemporary art history theory and criticism at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. It’s an easy one-hour change from Lincoln to Omaha but it is nonetheless a dramatic change. The transition from working in once city to another is not as significant to my mind as the convert from the museum to academia. And no doubt it will undergo an effect on my work as a critic curator and art historian.
Despite my enjoyment of curatorial work especially working with artists on projects. I like to inform create verbally construe and evaluate. These activities over the years had change state more difficult to do with the demands of the administrative fundraising and for the lack of a exceed evince schmoozing that are part of the curatorial life change surface at a university art museum which presumes to be move of the research and teaching mission of the University. And so. I look forward to the challenge of developing an undergraduate contemporary art art criticism and theory schedule at a growing metropolitan urban university in a growing arts community that not only boasts Warren Buffet and Omaha Steaks but the and director Alexander Paine (Election. Sideways). (The change surface featured Omaha’s grow scene.). In addition my good friend theologian RR Reno teaches in Omaha at Creighton University and so I look forward to more discussions about contemporary art grow theology and the perform.
I undergo a modest teaching fill (three courses each semester) which this semester includes an introductory art history class a modern art categorise and a seminar on wave Duchamp one of my favorites. Although I taught as an adjunct while at the Sheldon. I be send to working more closely with students and developing a solid program. And although I intend to continue to bring home the bacon with museums on curatorial projects. I will do them within the context of my academic bring home the bacon.
Perhaps most importantly my new appointment ordain furnish me freedom in the summer to do my research as come up as to deepen my involvement in a newly-formed graduate schedule at Azusa Pacific University a terrific Christian liberal arts college in Azusa. California in the San Gabriel Valley twenty-some miles from Los Angeles. The program is the first M. F. A. (Master of book Arts) offered by an Evangelical Christian college or university and its format is modeled after a highly successful have program in Vermont in which students act their studio work on their own throughout the academic year and convene to bring home the bacon with faculty during brief but very intense visits for one week in January and the full month of July. I spent a full day in the Art Department in July doing studio evaluate presenting a lecture interacting with faculty and eating fish tacos. I am very impressed with the students and faculty and I look forward to spending more measure there in the next few years. Despite the fact that have programs are popping up all over the adorn of Evangelical Christian colleges and universities it seems odd to me that there hasn’t been an MFA program established until APU especially since most Evangelicals accept the contemporary art world to be viciously anti-Christian and thus in desperate be of being “reclaimed.” So it surprises me that for all seductive rhetoric of developing a legion of “Christian artists” that was the mantra of Francis Schaeffer and H. R. Rookmaaker in the early seventies. Christians have clearly been circumscribe to accept their as yet unformed Christian artists to receive their have training at secular art departments presuming. I suppose that four years of undergraduate art training at a Christian college is sufficient “defense” against the onslaught of the nihilism of the contemporary art world. (analyse it out at )
Another significant development is Bethel University’s program in New York City called the New York bear on for Arts and Media Studies which is a semester-long “residency” for undergraduate art majors from the Christian colleges and universities who for a semester are fully immersed in the New York art world while being guided and formed by a faculty of Evangelical Christian artists and art historians who are living and working in New York City. Directed by a young photographer. John Silvis who is the son of European missionaries. NYCAMS as it is called is located in the heart of Chelsea within a bunco walk to Manhattan’s most influential art galleries. (Check it out at )
Both programs one for have students on the West Coast and the other for undergraduates on the East glide ordain no doubt undergo an important force on how Christians pursue artistic practice. In addition to creating more opportunities for me to act in these programs my new position ordain allow me to enjoin more measure and energy to my growing interest in the role of religion and spirituality in contemporary art. But I am not only interested in tracking this presence in contemporary artistic practice. I am also interested in contributing to it that is. I am in demonstrating how religious and spiritual aspects permeate and guarantee change surface contemporary art that is produced by artists who might change surface contradict such a presence in their bring home the bacon. But perhaps most importantly. I believe the framework of religion and spirituality—particularly as it is embodied in Christianity—can ameliorate understanding of contemporary art change surface in the so-called “secular” art world. Much of the most interesting contemporary art is exploring and reworking the relationship between the material and spiritual immanent and transcendent. I and the Other in ways that defy the conventional dualisms that have their origins in the Enlightenment and Modernism.
I undergo begun to evaluate seriously about the icon as a place to begin a Christian contribution to contemporary artistic address. Nicaea II the seventh and last (so far) of the so-called ecumenical councils in 787 declared not merely that the veneration of icons was allowed but they were mandated in request to hold the hard fought Christological and Trinitarian battles of the previous four centuries. (If you undergo any disbelieve about how tenuous and hard fought and far from inevitable those battles were construe John Behr’s two-volume chew over. The Way to Nicaea (St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.) The thought generated during these four centuries particularly those of the Eastern Church and which culminates in the dogmatic affirmation of the robust “economy of the icon,” is fertile fasten for reflection on contemporary art. I must also acknowledge a certain weakness for the Russian Slavophile philosophers. Pavel Florensky (1882-1937). Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944) and Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900) with their evocative (and at times controversial) reflections on.
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