Description
Have you considered exploring art as a form of prayer? This workshop is for those who wish to explore and add to their inventory of personal and collective prayer practices engaging in artmaking. This is an invitation to pray in artistic ways through doodling, coloring, painting, or any other art form, seeking to cultivate a deeper, closer relationship with God in ways that respond to personalities and styles. The practice, whether personal or communal, focuses primarily on the time spent pray-creating. The center of attention, rather than the final product, is the time set aside to connect with God, with oneself, with one another, and with that which surrounds us. The workshop will include an introduction to the practice, time praying-creating, and time for sharing ideasꟷ concrete examplesꟷ on how to establish a personal or communal “art as prayer” practice. No prior experience is required, just an open heart and a willingness to explore this form of prayer. Note this is a hands-on workshop, a respite where prayers, a moment of rest in God’s presence, is expressed in artmaking.
Workshop Leader: Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri is an educator, a PC(USA) ruling elder, and a former General Assembly Co-Moderator (2018). She currently serves as a Global Ecumenical Liaison. Since 2016 Vilmarie has been exploring art as prayer practice, watercolor painting being her preferred one. She feels passionate about artmaking this way, sharing art-prayers as an invitation to explore “art as prayer”.
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