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ART AT OMSC and the Artist in Residence Program |
| This visionary
program has enriched the local Christian and
art communities in New Haven as well as the
international sacred art milieu, most recently
by the inclusion of four of our former artists
in residence in the Summer of 2007 exhibition "The Christian Story: Five Asian Artists Today," held
at MOBIA (the Museum of Biblical Art) in New York City.
With initial assistance from the Foundation for Theological Education in Asia, this unique program is anchored by a special fund honoring the memory and sustaining the artistic vision of the late Paul T. Lauby (1925-2003). Dr. Lauby, an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ, taught at Silliman University in the Philippines from 1953 to 1968, and then served in New York City as president of the United Board for Higher Education in Asia from 1969 until his retirement in 1989. His interest in Asian Christian art and artists was well known, and he did much to encourage the development of emerging artists. Art is one medium that Christians outside the West utilize to proclaim the Gospel without fear of condescension by those long accustomed to the idea that most good ideas, including Christian ones, flow outward from the West. Art is a substantial part of the great reversal now taking place, joyfully bringing the Good News back to societies now jaded by outworn theologies and wearied by irrelevant, conformist "churchianity." We invite you to look at and meditate on these vivid visual metaphors, and hope that you will find yourself refreshed by their gentle reminder that the Gospel is indeed Good News! |
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