"Keep at it! Pray over it. People want your artwork in their homes, in their work spaces. Sometimes, it just takes time." Courtney Freiburger, Wooden sign maker and graphic designer at Hardy Design Photo "For anyone seeking to start sharing their gifts through creating beauty: 1)Seek the advice of experts. When I started Catholic Girl Talk, I had absoluetly no idea what I was getting into. However, I reached out to specific people who were already doing what I was doing, and doing it ...
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Wisdom for New, Young, + Shy Catholic Artists
"You DO have a place! Use what is at your disposal to convey beauty to the world in a way that is authentic to you. Beauty is the medium through which truth and goodness are conveyed. The world desperately needs you. It needs to see the light of Christ shining through the art you are creating. Even though it seems that someone has already taken your niche, YOU have unique gifts and tastes that just might draw someone into truth and goodness who would have been turned off before. Beauty will save ...
The Impact of Faith on the Lives of Artists
Earlier this fall I surveyed a diverse group of Catholic artists about what impact their faith has had on their work as artists. Here are a sampling of their responses. I hope their words inspire you to explore the role of beauty in your own faith. "My life as an artist is inseparable from my life of faith. I have always felt a need to create beauty and as I have grown in my faith I have seen that as a direct gift from God which allows me to participate in His creator spirit! My Catholic ...
True Feminism
This is a guest post by Heather Befort of Dappled Grey Adventures for PinkSaltRiot.com. Feminism and Catholicism are two terms people rarely use in the same sentence - why? Today’s world has distorted the idea of feminism to the point that when most people hear the term, it brings up an image of the radical feminists. Today, hearing “feminism” evokes the image of those who believe that motherhood is a burden instead of a gift; that a woman cannot live to her full potential if she is juggling ...
Changing Our Hearts to Change Our World
This is a guest post by Kelly Bartusiak, a Chicago native currently teaching Theology and running a Service program for highschoolers in Houston, TX. She enjoys learning about new Saints, singing in choirs, being near lakes, and learning about different kinds of bourbon. Every Houstonian knows, without a doubt, that when you’re trying to exit 610 to 59 South, there will inevitably be a string of cars that use the other lanes to speed up to the front of the line and cut in without waiting, ...
Fiat: An Open Yes to God
This "Fiat" print is free in our subscriber library this month only. Join here or, if you are already a member, login here. We say yes to Him. The world we live in leads us to believe that we have a lot of power over our destiny once we just decide what we want. Mood boards and meditation and visualizing have all enforced the belief that we call the shots and determine our story--and I think sometimes we approach prayer that way, too. We know what we want and how to get it, and we ask God ...