KindlingsFest 2009 explored theme of Broken Beauty with Dr. Jerry Root, Nigel Goodwin and artists-in-residence Bruce Herman, Michael Ward, Rick Stevenson and Michael Kelly Blanchard.

 

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KindlingsFest 2009 explored theme of Broken Beauty with Dr. Jerry Root, Nigel Goodwin and artists-in-residence Bruce Herman, Michael Ward, Rick Stevenson and Michael Kelly Blanchard.

 

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Dick Staub interviews artist in residence Bruce Herman, whose painting “Called” was featured at KindlingsFest 2009. KindlingsFest 2009 explored theme of Broken Beauty with Dr. Jerry Root, Nigel Goodwin and artists-in-residence Bruce Herman, Michael Ward, Rick Stevenson and Michael Kelly Blanchard.

 

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From Sundance/Windrider Craig Detweiler interviews Justin Lerner, writer and director of “The Replacement Child,” award winning (UCLA, Santa Fe, Beverly Hills, Omaha, Angelus, Boulder, Festrola, Winnipeg and selection at Telluride, LA and Torino).

 

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My friend Marty sent me an email that said. “Watch This.” Good friends don’t waste good friends time in seasons where there is none to be wasted, so I knew he meant business…the business of rekindling creativity among thoughtful creatives for whom God is of central importance. I now pass it on to you. “Watch it! Taped at the renowned TEDS event, Sir Ken Robinson asks: “Do schools kill creativity?”  The questions he raises and implications of his answers are simple and profound. Best of all–he tells a story of a little girl drawing God that I’ve been Read more

Dick Staub interviews Makoto Fujimura a painter who was appointed to the National Council on the Arts, a six year Presidential appointment, in 2003. A resident of Tribeca in NYC, he is the founder of the International Arts Movement and has become a voice of cultural authority on faith, humanity, and Read more

 

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Glimmers Of Artistic Hope““ I see faint glimmers of hope on the artistic front.“
1) Classical Music Listen to what Aaron Jay Kernis, composer of “Newly Drawn Sky, said to Seattle Symphony conductor Gerard Strauss about his aspirations. “I want to write music that is visceral, that is moving, and that is impeccably put together. I don’t want classical music to be a passive experience. I want it to have as much of an Read more

In our newest Kindlings Muse Show we bring you a discussion of current film releases, new DVD releases and “films everybody should see” in a discussion featuring Jeffrey Overstreet film critic, author of Auralia’s Colors and Through a Screen Darkly, Jennie Spohr, producer of The Kindlings Muse, reviewer at Past the Popcorn and Gregory Wright Managing Editor of Past the Popcorn and Senior Editor of HollywoodJesus.com. Special to this show: our reviewers Christmas Picks! The full list is: Read more

 

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Of all his memorable interviews, Dick Staub puts this one with Daniel Libeskind at the International Arts Movement Conference in NYC near the top of the list. Libeskind, is a Polish-born Jewish American architect, whose prominent and celebrated buildings include Read more

 

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What is it like to make your living with your art? The fame? The fortune? The Limos? Each of us has a unique creativity but only a few pursue their artistic impulses… and only a few of those are able to make their living at it. The rest wonder—chip away at their novel, poem, songwriting, painting Wonder if they Read more

 

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