By TAHLIB
Artist dialogue & reception: Saturday, November 9, 2:00 p.m.
The board and members of Alpha & Omega Project for Contemporary Religious Arts are pleased to invite all believers, and skeptics too, for its inaugural exhibition, "First & Last: Religious Risks." Thirty-works are being showcased, and seven prize categories are being announced as part of the 2013 Spirit & Place Festival. The festival is a 10-day collaboration of congregations, cultural institutions, universities and colleges, schools, civic groups, museums, designed to build community through dialogue and engagement. The Alpha Omega Prize is an annual recognition of art that influences community-building across the religious divide.
The Alpha Omega Arts exhibition will be held at the Indiana Interchurch Center's IIC Gallery. The exhibition features the works of: Anila Quayyum Agha, Doug Arnholter, Dan Cooper, John Crowe, LaShawnda Crowe Storm, D. Del Reverda-Jennings, Brian Diehl, Jonathon Frey, Glory-June Grieff, Linda Witte Henke, Jonathon Kane, Denis Ryan Kelly, Jr., Elizabeth Kenney, Deborah Kolp, Dan Axler, 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, and Terry Wilson.
The program and reception on Saturday, November 9 at 2 p.m. features three Hoosier literary giants: Norbert Krapf, Bonnie Maurer, and Tasha Jones, and all three are members of the exclusive club of Creative Renewal Arts Fellows funded by the Lilly Endowment. In addition to the exhibition, and readings by the three poets on religious risk, one student will be honored as the 3rd annual winner of the Alpha Omega Prize for Youth Art: a college scholarship for a high school senior.
The final features of the Alpha Omega Arts homecoming week are: First, nine days of prize announcements honoring the art, clergy, institutions which have most influenced the American dialogue about religion. This will be the 6th year for the prizes. Secondly, Alpha Omega Arts will hold a seven-day power2give campaign to raise support for honorariums for artists who dare to explore religious ideas at alphaomegprize.org.
For further information or press enquiries please contact Greg Disney-Britton in Indianapolis at Board(at)alphaomegaarts.org or 317-919-0570.
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