Fundraising Update – Please Support the Orthodox Arts Journal
It has been three weeks since we announced our fundraising campaign, and we are now 25% of the way to our $5,000 goal. The Orthodox Arts Journal has been running for four years, and, until now, we have never requested support from our readers. Our contributors, editors, and programmers have donated their time, and with 300 total articles…
Continue reading »Andrew Gould featured in Road to Emmaus Journal
I have had the great honor of being interviewed for the Road to Emmaus Journal. In June of this year, I spent a week with editor Mother Nectaria (McLees), discussing the art and architecture of the Orthodox Church. It was a marvelous and fruitful experience, and I am truly humbled that my words were found…
Continue reading »Icon Carving of Christ Pulling St-Peter from the Water.
Since I began icon carving full time 4 years ago now, I had a secret list of the things I wanted to make, certain objects and images that were dear to me. To my own joy and surprise, I have been progressively checking off items from that list with ongoing commissions, making even those objects and…
Continue reading »A Better Orthodox Arts Journal
We are now well into our fourth year here at OAJ and could not be more pleased with the overwhelming support we have received from the liturgical arts community. We want to thank our readers for following us, engaging with us and sharing our content to others. With almost 900 subscribers and quality collaborators from…
Continue reading »Sing Ye Carols: An Interview with Hierodeacon Herman
Hierodeacon Herman (Majkrzak), Chapel Music Director and Lecturer in Liturgical Music at Saint Vladimir’s Seminary, has started a small ministry during this Nativity fast – a series of Facebook posts highlighting lesser-known hymns and carols from the Western tradition. You can enjoy his posts here: Fr. Herman’s Choral Advent Calendar. We thought this a good…
Continue reading »St. Tikhon’s Monastery Reaches Out into the Culture through Sacred Music
The recent release of the CD Till Morn Eternal Breaks marks a number of laudable firsts: First and foremost, it is the debut CD comprised almost entirely of the choral works of American Orthodox composer Benedict Sheehan (b.1980), a gifted musician who has something important to say in ways that are both traditional and innovative. Second, it…
Continue reading »An Interview with Iconographer Julia Bridget Hayes
Julia Bridget Hayes is a talented iconographer working in Greece. Her work is a truly wonderful example of creativity within tradition. We asked to interview her and to share these images of her work that she might become better known to our readers. A. Gould: Julia, you were born in South Africa, but now…
Continue reading »Deisis – An Iconographic Installation
The truth is that when I was offered the possibility to set up a small exhibition on the occasion of the 34th Symposium of Art and Theology, organised by the School of Theology, University of Navarra, I did not have sufficient material, as I was moving and dismantling my workshop. On the other hand, as…
Continue reading »Building International Bridges Through Orthodox Sacred Music – A New CD from PaTRAM
The Patriarch Tikhon Choir Releases Its New CD In 2012, Vladimir Gorbik, the eminent Choirmaster of the Moscow Representation Church of the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery, came to North America for the first time to teach a master class on the interpretation of Russian Orthodox sacred choral music at St. Vladimir’s Seminary. After the success…
Continue reading »Two images of the Church and why they should not be confused.
Christological and Pneumatological Images of the Church In early Christian art, there developed a series of complementary visual relationships which I have discussed on numerous occasions and have come to often characterize as the right hand and the left hand of Christ. These elements, like the ass and the ox, St-Peter and St-Paul, the good…
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