2009 Destinations

OK, here we go!

All of you who have taken on my challenge to stretch your artistic muscles and create, here are the topics we're addressing over the next several weeks.

If you have photos, essays, scripts, journal entries, drawings, dances, or songs that you want to submit for these topics either post a comment here or email the ideas to me at: Cypress Arts

Destinations

Money Town
Money Management
Giving to honor God

Lovers Leap
Relationships
Marriage
Sex

Angerville
Two weeks on handling and mishandling our anger

City of God
Two weeks on our relationship with God

Fools Paradise
What Proverbs has to say about foolish behavior

That should give you lots of food for thought as you create.

I'm really looking forward to your thoughts and creations!

New Year - New Direction

I was so overwhelmed and excited to work side by side with artists this past Christmas to create, edit and write the program for Wonder! What a fun creative process!

And it got me thinking... rather than have this blog/conversation just be about generating ideas... what I would REALLY LOVE to see is to see this blog generate new original art.

The reality is that, here at Cypress, we are surrounded by phenomenal artists. Writers, photographers, musicians, dancers, etc.

And I have been wondering for some time... what could happen if we unleashed the massive amounts of creativity hiding in the seats on Sunday mornings?

So, let's do just that!

Here on "Muse" I will be posting the series and topics that we will be covering over the next several weeks. If you have, or feel inspired to create, original art that relates to the topic, please send it my way or post it here as a comment. I will bring the art to the planning process and we will consider it for possible use in a service.

As always, we as a team of artists will need to hold our gifts loosely understanding that our art may or may not be used. But I do feel strongly that if we all participate and "spur each other on" we will not only improve what we offer to God and to Cypress on Sunday mornings, but we will improve as individual artists as well.

So, I'm in. Are you?