The Maker's Space

The Maker's Space does workshops with different organizations and this is one that we have been doing an art worship workshop at their annual retreat for 10 years.  For their 10th anniversary, they are holding a virtual retreat starting next week and have produced this video in celebration!  Take a look!

WITH GOD DAILY devotional app by Skye Jethani 5/19/20 “Six months ago, few of us could have imagined that we would be facing a global pandemic, unemployment would reach levels not seen since the Great Depression, and over 90,000 Americans would be dead. Covid-19 is the definition of a catastrophe—“a sudden and widespread disaster.” When catastrophes occur we are left stunned as our vision of the world is dismantled and our sense of control shattered. What remains are questions:  Why did this happen? Will we recover? Where is God?  Sometimes direct answers to these questions elude us and are to be found, instead, indirectly through art and literature. That was my experience while reading the fantasy works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Best known for writing  The Hobbit  and  The Lord of the Rings , Tolkien was an Oxford professor, a Roman Catholic, and a close friend of C.S. Lewis who was instrumental in Lewis’ journey from atheism to faith in Christ. Unlike Lewis, however,...

In light of the fact that we should have been meeting in April, we hope all of you are well!  We miss seeing you and getting together to do art in order to slow down and hear some things about ourselves.  We hope that you find that this is not wasted time, but found time for reflection and growth. In keeping with our drawing theme from last month, we thought we would challenge you to try some figures.  There are some great folds in these black and white photos to try.  Shading is everything!  Those of you that sent in some of the faces that you attempted were wonderful!! Check them out at the previous post of pencil drawing. In the mean time, grab a piece of paper and pencil, get cozy, and try your hand at the shepherds and flutes from Palestine, below, [circa 1930.] As always, follow the blog @ www.themakersspace.us  and Instagram@themakersspace   Send in your attempts to  2013themakersspace@gmail.com Just draw what you see...

Let's not forget, in these days of an overabundance of ugly and fear, let's seek out something beautiful.  We were created to view beauty.  We need it.  We crave it.  Did you every wonder why? "That we even need to explain how beauty is so absolutely essential to God only shows how dull we have grown to him, to the world in which we live, and to Eve, [the first woman, made in the image of God.]  Our own spiritual lives are lived with barely a nod to beauty, to the central role that beauty plays in the life of God, and in our own lives.  We hold to the importance of truth and goodness.  We skip right over the importance of beauty when trying to know God." "Beauty is the essence of God.  The first way we know this is through nature, the world God has given us.  Scripture says that the created world is filled with the glory of God.[Isa. 6:3]  In what way?  Primarily through its beauty .  Nature is not primarily functional...

To see paintings of what it means to live in a season of Resurrection go www.gecovenant.org The church of Glen Ellyn Evangelical Church has a group of artists that are using their gifts to show what living in the season of Resurrection means to them. The paintings with the inspirations that they began with connects with us in a way that mere words cannot. Thank you artists for giving us a visual to think about during this Easter season. The "Living in the Resurrection" Exhibit is still hanging in the sanctuary at Glen Ellyn Evangelical Church through Advent 2020.