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Release of Becoming Truly Human Film
Aspiration Studios Announces 2017 Premiere Date for Documentary BECOMING TRULY HUMAN Aspiration Studios has announced the newest title they will bring exclusively to churches and various non-theatrical venues late this summer. BECOMING TRULY HUMAN, the first feature film about America’s religiously unaffiliated, will be programmed in venues beginning August 22, 2017. BECOMING TRULY HUMAN is…
Continue reading »Nicholas Kotar Publishes The Song of Sirin
(Editor’s note: We are excited to announce that Nicholas Kotar, who has written a few great pieces for OAJ, has recently published his first novel. Here is a version of his press release.) Orthodox Writer writes a fantasy novel inspired by Russian fairy tales and the Lives of the Saints. Discouraged by the lack…
Continue reading »Important: New Mailing List
Hello to all our subscribed readers. One of the upgrades we will be going forward with as the new site has been put up is to change the service we are using to send out news and articles. In doing this there is always the risk that our newsletters will be interpreted as spam by…
Continue reading »Introducing The New OAJ
Believe or not, this week we celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Orthodox Arts Journal. As an editorial team, we are excited to unveil the makeover we had announced when we asked you all for your support last year. The redesign was done by Fr. Joel Wilson of Rolla Creative. The architectural banner and our…
Continue reading »Divine Patterns in Stories and Images
In 2015, Andrew Gould got a lot of positive attention by presenting his united vision of liturgical art at the Climacus Conference. This bi-annual event has been a staple for exploring various aspects of culture and intellectual life and how they connect to the Orthodox spiritual journey. In 2017 it was my turn to fly…
Continue reading »Finding Beauty in Beauty and the Beast – the Perspective of an Orthodox Christian Artist
Disney’s new live-action movie, Beauty and the Beast, has stirred up considerable controversy. Proponents of both feminism and the gay agenda have claimed the movie as a triumph for their cause. As an Orthodox Christian who has great respect for the power of fairy tales to shape our world view, I found these allegations troubling.…
Continue reading »A North American Master of Sacred Arts Program
The first person to ever write about my carvings was David Clayton, who at the time was blogging for New Liturgical Movement. Since then David and I have kept in contact as he wrote his first book and has now gone on to start the first Master’s Degree of Sacred Art program in North America. This…
Continue reading »Encountering God – Climacus Conference 2017
The Climacus Conference is a classical Christian intellectual/spiritual event featuring scholars and voices across the fields of Theology, Philosophy, Classical Education, Literature, and History/Politics. It is unique in that it provides an opportunity for attendees to be enriched by thinking well across disciplines. In 2015, OAJ founder Andrew Gould participated at the Climacus conference and gave…
Continue reading »Fr. Ivan Moody at SVOTS
As part of their Sacred Arts Initiative, St-Vladimir Seminary is organizing an event with our own Father Ivan Moody. The event is titled Past, Present and Future of Orthodox Music , and some of the tone and content can be already gleaned from the interview that was done with fr. Ivan by Dr. Peter Bouteneff…
Continue reading »Improving Icon Carving Through Drawing
One of the complex questions that faces modern icon carving is the pervasive presence of the painted icon within the tradition of iconography. For many reasons which I hope to write about in the future, icon carving became a somewhat marginalized art form as the centuries advanced. And so for myself and the small group…
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