The Maker's Space

On the spring equinox, 2025, at the Vail Church in Colorado, we used art as a tool to explore the big question of Identity looking at "Who Am I?" and the book by Klyne Snodgrass, "Who God Says You Are."  In it, Snodgrass explores how boundaries shape our identity

  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...

This year's series of using art as a tool to explore the big question of Identity looks at "Who Am I" and the book by Klyne Snodrass, "Who God Says You Are."  This month of January, 2020, we are exploring how boundaries shape our identity.  [All quotes are from the above book.] We may not like it but we need boundaries.  "In Robert Frost's poem "Mending Wall," Frost is repairing a wall with his neighbor and seems not so sure about walls and wonders what he is walling in and walling out.  We need boundaries, but wrongly understood, they diminish life.  Life is about  boundaries, but it is also about seeking intimacy and relations despite our boundaries.  Identity is established by difference, by recognizing what we are and what we are not, and that is based on boundaries, whether geographical, social, religious, occupational, or other.  I am me, not you.  I am human, not God.  Identifying others or oneself is a means of differentiation....