The Studio for Art, Faith, & History operates in conjunction with the programs of Gordon College in Europe, organizing conferences, art exhibitions, concerts and theater productions, and supporting new work in the visual and performing arts. The Studio is a founding sponsor of the Orvieto-based Festival ArteFede (Festival of Art & Faith).
All Gordon’s European programs pay attention to what many see as a Europe in identity-crisis: embarrassed by the Christian sources of its heritage while still living off the dwindling capital of that heritage; dutifully voicing the rhetoric of value-neutral religious and ethnic pluralism while feeling threatened by demographic changes that are radically changing the religious and ethnic make-up of the continent; and pursuing the goal of a common and widening European political and economic union in the midst of retrenchment into old nation-state and ethnic-community identities.
Hence the Studio is interested in the role that the arts can play in recovering civil society and social capital in post-communist Eastern Europe; in recovering a vital and credible Christianity in a secularized post-christian Western Europe; and in finding new vitality in the patrimony in the visual arts now museumized or in ruins in southern Europe.
The Studio takes a particular interest in projects that
- reconnect faith with history by creatively adapting the practices and disciplines of the historic church to contemporary faith and community life;
- reconnect art with faith by exploring the place of the arts not only in worship and devotion, but in renewing the social fabric and in presenting a hospitable Christian faith in a largely post-christian Europe;
- reconnect art with history by highlighting contemporary artists whose work can give new and compelling currency to the themes and narratives of historic Christian tradition.
The Studio for Art, Faith, & History operates in conjunction with the programs of Gordon College in Europe, organizing conferences, art exhibitions, concerts and theater productions, and supporting new work in the visual and performing arts. The Studio is a founding sponsor of the Orvieto-based Festival ArteFede (Festival of Art & Faith).
All Gordon’s European programs pay attention to what many see as a Europe in identity-crisis: embarrassed by the Christian sources of its heritage while still living off the dwindling capital of that heritage; dutifully voicing the rhetoric of value-neutral religious and ethnic pluralism while feeling threatened by demographic changes that are radically changing the religious and ethnic make-up of the continent; and pursuing the goal of a common and widening European political and economic union in the midst of retrenchment into old nation-state and ethnic-community identities.
Hence the Studio is interested in the role that the arts can play in recovering civil society and social capital in post-communist Eastern Europe; in recovering a vital and credible Christianity in a secularized post-christian Western Europe; and in finding new vitality in the patrimony in the visual arts now museumized or in ruins in southern Europe.
The Studio takes a particular interest in projects that
- reconnect faith with history by creatively adapting the practices and disciplines of the historic church to contemporary faith and community life;
- reconnect art with faith by exploring the place of the arts not only in worship and devotion, but in renewing the social fabric and in presenting a hospitable Christian faith in a largely post-christian Europe;
- reconnect art with history by highlighting contemporary artists whose work can give new and compelling currency to the themes and narratives of historic Christian tradition.
The Studio for Art, Faith, & History operates in conjunction with the programs of Gordon College in Europe, organizing conferences, art exhibitions, concerts and theater productions, and supporting new work in the visual and performing arts. The Studio is a founding sponsor of the Orvieto-based Festival ArteFede (Festival of Art & Faith).
All Gordon’s European programs pay attention to what many see as a Europe in identity-crisis: embarrassed by the Christian sources of its heritage while still living off the dwindling capital of that heritage; dutifully voicing the rhetoric of value-neutral religious and ethnic pluralism while feeling threatened by demographic changes that are radically changing the religious and ethnic make-up of the continent; and pursuing the goal of a common and widening European political and economic union in the midst of retrenchment into old nation-state and ethnic-community identities.
Hence the Studio is interested in the role that the arts can play in recovering civil society and social capital in post-communist Eastern Europe; in recovering a vital and credible Christianity in a secularized post-christian Western Europe; and in finding new vitality in the patrimony in the visual arts now museumized or in ruins in southern Europe.
The Studio takes a particular interest in projects that
- reconnect faith with history by creatively adapting the practices and disciplines of the historic church to contemporary faith and community life;
- reconnect art with faith by exploring the place of the arts not only in worship and devotion, but in renewing the social fabric and in presenting a hospitable Christian faith in a largely post-christian Europe;
- reconnect art with history by highlighting contemporary artists whose work can give new and compelling currency to the themes and narratives of historic Christian tradition.
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