Alpha & Omega Prize Exhibition 2013, Explores "Religious Risks"

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By TAHLIB

INDIANA---In addition, to a week of A&O Prize inductions and honors, the Alpha & Omega Project for Contemporary Religious Arts is pleased to present "Religious Risks," opening November 1, as part of the 18th annual Spirit & Place Festival. The full program includes more than thirty artist works (believers and skeptics too), representing the imaginations of a wide range of Indiana artists. The exhibition portion includes thirty emerging artists, as well as professionals such as Anila Agha, Tom Torluemke, Nhat Tran, and Constance Scopelitis. In addition, there is one youth scholarship honoree; and three poet honorees, Norbert Krapf, Tasha Jones, and Bonnie Mauer, who will present and join a group dialogue entitled, "Artist+Faith+Risk" on Saturday afternoon, November 9.

Alpha Omega Prize: "Religious Risks" (Nov. 1-29), at Indiana Interchurch Center's IIC Gallery, 1100 W. 42nd Street, Ground Floor; Indianapolis, IN; 317-919-0570; alphaomegaarts.org

VISUAL ARTISTS Anila Quayyum Agha Doug Arnholter Daniel Axler Sandi Ballard *Bailee Brantley Dan Cooper John Crowe LaShawnda Crowe Storm D. Del Reverda-Jennings Brian Diehl John Essex II Jonathon Frey Glory-June Greiff Linda Witte Henke Jonathon Kane Denis Ryan Kelly, Jr. Elizabeth Kenney Deborah Kolp Brigid Manning-Hamilton Tony Melendez Quincy Owens Ryan Petrow Tim Ryan Gary Schmitt Constance Edwards Scopelitis Bonnie Stahlecker Susan Lynn Tennant Tom Torluemke Nhat Tran Julia Wickes Terry Wilson LITERARY ARTISTS Norbert Krapf Bonnie Maurer Tasha Jones

PRIZE SUPPORTERS Sarah Adams  Sandi Ballard Jennifer Barnes Virginia Bievenour  Verneida Britton Karen Chinetti Todd Cox  Dolly Craft Spencer Crew Susan Disney Gregory Disney-Britton Ernest Disney-Britton Garry Fredericksen Carol Givens Ted Givens Katie Graham Todd & Teresa Hedback Melvin Jolliff Leslie Kreines Pastor Jeff Miner Michele Moriarty Jason Pack Ryan Petrow Tahlib Deborah Thornburgh Anthony Team Realty, LLC Julie Reed Betsy Sato Larry Sears Krista Skidmore  Jean Slaughter David Squire James Strain    Cheryl Strain David Sweet Desmond Wade Vivian Wyatt (*Student Winner)