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The Artist's Group calls persons to express an inner vision in an outward form. In the engagement with the medium one becomes aware of the gift of creation, and hopes to be a channel for this gift. The artist is held by the group in the faith place where both the creative blocks and creative gifts are experienced.

In the Artist Mission Group we work individually on our art but corporately we become community.

Claiming being an artist means being under the authority of that. Once deciding to join, then comes the sorting through of how this is to be manifested in one's life. Setting priorities is important. Most members are working full time and must fit this being an artist in with other wants. Some who come may have set their goals and hopes so high they dare not venture forth. Some humility is needed to accept one's own work. When one experiences the creative process in oneself one realizes that intentionality is needed but also faith to hang in when there seems to be no inner resource to rely upon.

The call to be an artist is radical in that it asks us to find a voice for our uniqueness and be responsible for that as co-creators with God. As created beings we can only express our uniqueness with God's help.

A talk given at Foundry Gallery on 4/22/2001 by E. Vail: Choices: In order to survive as an artist I participate in a weekly group of artists in our church. We experience the creative process in one another's lives. Often the creative process involves being depressed; then something seems to change and we take off again. Seeing this happen other people's lives helps me. The waiting part is hard and I fill it with going to art galleries, visiting places of beauty; puzzling over the world that I live in.
A talk given at Foundry Gallery on 4/11/1999 by E. Vail: Eye Of Lama: When I was a young teenager I had a green organdy party dress. I loved it. I never wore it. I could dream about some event when it would be appropriate but that occasion did not arise. I finally got rid of the dress but the image stays with me as a symbol of a potential. I feel I am at a place now where there are new possibilities if I am willing to be re-formed. It is in the breaking that the new is born. I don't know what form my art will take in the future. But I know it will be a productive time for me.
A talk given at Foundry Gallery on 4/20/1997 by E. Vail: In The Shade Of A Daisy: I had a dream about this talk where I was with a group of students in their 30s who were saying how hard it was to hang in with the process of being artists. "Tell me about it" I said. "I am 73."
Seekers Aloft: Seekers Aloft is the art gallery of Seekers Church.

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