The Maker's Space

                                  Session #1 Where are you? Supplies needed: black ink pens, 2 pieces of watercolor paper, any watercolors.                                     Welcome to The Maker’s Space.                                          "Where are you...?" There are many ways to hear God; through Scripture, through creation, music, community and the arts.   This is a safe place where we slow down and use art to practice listening to God.   This year, The Maker’s Space will be looking at 5 questions that God asks us that we can ask ourselves in order to get to know ourselves and God, and others, better.   You might feel like you are languishing, [a state between despair and flourishing,] and I think that asking questions of God, ourselves and each other can help us think about the “what’s next?” and move us into flourishing again.   Think about doing this yourself, and then invite a group of friends or family to do it together to encourage conversations.   There will

                                                                              Asking Questions??? Whether we admit it or not, we are on a journey.   Humans are curious beings, so asking questions along the way can turn the journey into a quest.   The quest can be about the journey. Where we are going?   Which route do we take?   Are we up for an adventure?   The quest can also be about ourselves. Where am I going? How am I growing?   What am I learning? What do I see?   Who am I meeting? What are they like? What do they think?   What do I think?

                                                                                       The Purpose By Design Art Worship Workshop 2021 After last summer of a zoom retreat, we resumed the retreat in Tennessee, bringing 12 teenage girls from the ages of 13-18 years old to the retreat center for 4 days of workshops, fitness training, health and resilience training and rest.  

  What a year we all have had!  What are the new ideas and concepts that have emerged from this time of slowing down and listening to our Maker? Here is what was created from The Maker's Space.

This has been such an exciting year as we have studied how art influences culture in the book "Culture Care" by Makoto Fujimura.  One particular group of book readers, wanted to help artists help our current culture. One of the projects that has inspired action is an online art gallery to help artists have a platform to show the art that they have been inspired to create during these extraordinary times.  This is just the way that artists should function in our society, helping us heal, be restored, and flourish in the days ahead.   We want to be diverse and inclusive in our invitations as well as worldwide in our scope.  I can't wait to see what this will look like scheduled for May 31-June 30, 2021!   We hope to see this grow in the years to come. Feel free to forward this to artists that you know, or anyone who will want to view the art in the gallery.   Please contact me @2013themakersspace@gmail.com with any questions or comments!  

  SUPPLIES NEEDED: PAPER LIKE VELLUM, VINE CHARCOAL, HARD CHARCOAL, KNEADED ERASER, PRINTS OF REFERENCE PHOTOS, and tissues. Welcome to #5 and the last of the series on Culture Care.  We have been reading the book by Makoto Fujimura and doing a different medium of art with every new set of chapters.  We use art to slow down and listen to what God is saying to each of us.  He is always speaking, we need to purposefully listen to Him.  I hope that you have enjoyed this series and would love to hear what you have learned.  Take some time at the end of each session and look at your art and verbalize the concepts or thoughts it helps you remember.  I would love for you to comment on how this series has been helpful or inspiring to you.  You can always write to me at 2013themakersspace@gmail.com Enjoy this 5th video! 

  Video Youtube link  https://youtu.be/Ys4g1lgu3pQ Supplies:   watercolor paper, Arches 140lb. cold pressed, tubes of watercolor to get pure color: Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Lamp black, Phthalo Blue, Yellow Ochre, painters tape, cardboard. Welcome to The Maker’s Space where we come out of our chaotic spaces and into a spacious space to slow down and use art to hear what our Maker is saying to each of us. We need each other to grow, and to practice being in the presence of God. Our goal is to be in His presence all the time, where we are always thinking about Him.   The more we think about Him, the more we get to know Him. So, thank you for encouraging me by being here. True art should pose questions. In fact, I heard, once, that art that only says one thing is a “sign.” In our last session of copying Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry, starry night, we noticed some of the things that his art was saying.   “What if Vincent was right?   What do we do in a culture in which the light of the Spirit

  Supplies:    a blank canvas, sponge brush and other brush, blue, red or orange, white, yellow, and black acrylic paint. [Chapt. 7,8 & 9. Culture Care by Makoto Fujimura] Youtube Video Link https://youtu.be/Bw7cnZwNXUg {Text of the video} Welcome to The Maker’s Space! This is a place where you can come out of your busy, chaotic world and slow down to listen to your Maker.    We use art as a tool to learn new things.    It’s good to make our brains uncomfortable because it kicks us out of automatic pilot, like when we are binge watching tv….into a learning mode, where we are ready to learn new things about ourselves from our Maker with the goal of change and being transformed.    I want to change and grow into my better self—-don’t you?    What better way than to hear from the One who made you and loves you and wants you to become your best self? Sounds like work and self-help books, right?    However, we really don’t have to do a thing except focus our minds on God and get to know