Arts Links

Training/Inspiration

• Act One –Christian training for the entertainment industry
• Ad Deum Dance–Professional dance training
• ArtWay.eu –Inspiring weekly visual meditations
• Brehm Center–Based at Fuller, training to critically integrate worship, theology, and the arts.
• Finding Divine Inspiration: Working with the Holy Spirit in Your Creativity–Book and workbook
• International Christian Dance Fellowship— Connecting Faith and Calling in Movement
• Stone By Stone–DVD teaching series on the arts by Colin Harbinson

Christ-Following Arts Organizations

• 168 Project–Provides a proving ground for filmmakers, writers, actors and all interested in creating stories for popular culture.
• ACE: Art and Christian Enquiry--A UK Organization that offers publications, projects, information and more
• ACT Artists in Christian Testimony–A sending organization for Christians in the arts
• Act One–Christian training for the entertainment industry
• Ad Deum Dance–Professional touring dance company and training intensives
• American Institute of Architects (AIA) Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture
• Art House America–Cultivating creativity for the common good
• Arts Centre Group–A UK organization that brings together Christians who are working professionally in the field of the arts.
• Art+Christianity–Seeks to foster and explore the dialogue between art, Christianity and other religious faiths.
• Art and Sacred Spaces— UK based, promoting interaction between faith and the contemporary visual arts
• ArtWay.eu –Inspiring weekly visual meditations
• Art Within –Arts and Media Organization
• Arts With a Mission (AWAM)–YWAM’s arts programs
• Brehm Center–Based at Fuller, training to critically integrate worship, theology, and the arts.
• CAELA– Christian Arts Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Artists. Building up arts leaders in the Church
• CITA— Christians in the Theater Arts
• CIVA–Christians in the Visual Arts
• Christian Performing Arts Fellowship
• The Doorpost Film Project –Encouraging Truth-Seeking Visionaries
• Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet–comprised of artist-theologians whose goal is to create spaces where art and faith can flourish
• ECVA–Episcopal Church and Visual Arts
• Greenbelt–A UK organization that puts on the Greenbelt Festival
• The Grove Center for the Arts and Media— Cultivating the spiritual growth and creative work of artists
• The Gruenwald Guild–Celebrating the relationship between art and faith
• Hollywood Connect Resource site for Christians in Hollywood
• Hollywood Prayer Network –Prayer support for the entertainment industry
• International Christian Dance Fellowship— Connecting Faith and Calling in Movement
• The Limner Society –Community and resources for artists of faith
• OM Arts Operation Mobilization Arts and Artslink
• RYFO –Musicians Support Network.
• Salvation Army Creative Arts USA — To provide opportunities to encounter God through sincere artistic expressions
• Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies–Host of ARTS Journal
• Stoneworks –A global arts partnership committed to Arts Education, Spiritual Formation, Cultural Reformation
• The Worship Studio— Artist resources, community
• Worship Foundations— Strengthening Musicians and Worship Leaders
• YWAM Arts –Youth with a Mission’s Fine Arts

Displaying Art In Churches

• BYFOR.org— Art by and for the church
• CIVA Gallery Handbook

Material for Arts Ministries and Groups

• Creative Church Handbook: Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation
• One Time Blind –Drama resources and performances
• Worship Leader Magazine — Loads of worship music links and resources

World Church/Arts in Missions

• International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE): –A network for culturally-appropriate worship
• OM Artslink –Operation Mobilization Network for the arts
• STONEWORKS –A global arts partnership committed to Arts Education, Spiritual Formation, Cultural Reformation
• YWAM Newcastle Music & Arts—Are you wired to express yourself creatively to the world around you? Whether your passion is music, fine arts or dance the Music & Arts DTS is for you!

Church Arts Ministries

For our list of Church Arts Ministries, click on THIS LINK.

Artist Sites and Blogs

For our list of Christ-Following Artist Sites and Blogs, click on THIS LINK.

Other Resource Sites

(Portals to other sites)

Electronic Media for Churches

• Midnight Oil Productions   Digital storytelling tools for ministry
• The Work of the People  Visual Media for Mission and Worship

Music

• Hot Worship Huge resource site full of worship links for musicans and ministries
• Worship Leader Magazine loads of worship music links

Film

• Hollywood Connect Resource site for Christians in Hollywood

General

• Zoecarnate.com  blog and links
• Q Idea–Site and conferences for Christian thought leaders
  

Christian Art Galleries

• EDOT Gallery   Houston, TX Gallery of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas
• Eyekons Gallery
• The Index of Christian Art  A collection of Medieval Christian art at Princeton U. Good for research.
• The Vatican Museum  Rome
• Whitestone Gallery    Philadelphia

Mainstream (Not Christian-based) Sites for Training and Inspiration

• Artist Career Training   Great resources for working artists
• Dan Pink  Blog for author of several great books about trends
• Seth Godin   Blog for this marketing and trends guru.
• TED  Site for ideas worth spreading