Origin Series: On Patience
The aim of this series focused on patience is to explore the impact of this virtue exemplified in the habits of the believer, including the artist. What does patience say to us who are interested in effecting the common good both with what we create and our faith? Through this series, the hope is to unearth something different from the frantic, anxious pace of the modern world and explore how patience influences, encourages, and informs the artist’s work.
In 2022, Origin will be a hybrid program with in-person and virtual attendance options. The launch of Origin featured Dr. Kelly Kapic (event audio below) and throughout the summer, we will gather in small cohorts, led by Art House Dallas staff and volunteers, to engage in facilitated discussion groups with the On Patience reader. Finally, we gathered in-person on September 29 with featured speaker James K.A. Smith to close out the series (livestream recording below).
ABOUT: Origin, an Art House Dallas program, seeks to establish a wholeness and connectedness between spiritual formation, imagination, and the arts with the ultimate intent to establish a sacred perspective on how we individually and collectively live and create. We believe that beauty shown through the arts, culture, and creation holds a powerful ability to form the way we see ourselves, the world, and our interaction with both. As embodied creatures made in the image of the Triune God we must consider the formation of our senses, our emotions, and our ideas. This same incarnate God calls us to be like him in our participation of cultivating goodness, truth, and beauty. There are few things more sacred in life than points of origin. The point from where thoughts, ideas, and perspectives begin holds potent ability to echo and endure through generations and shape how people and cultures both speak and act. How a person interacts with and thinks about the world is the essence of living and the result of a starting point.
The reader is intended to be used alongside the Art House Dallas Origin program, if you are unable to afford the reader and would still love to participate, please fill out this form and let us know your situation.
Origin Opening Event Recording
Click below to listen to the talk from Dr. Kelly Kapic on patience, process and efficiency from our Origin Opening Event on May 19th, 2022.
An Evening With James K.A. Smith Recording
Donate to Recieve the Origin Reader: On Patience
This anthology is the loving creation of a community of friends in hope of transformation and an ever-deepening faith. As with previous anthologies, each chapter includes an anchor text, poetry, visual art, and scripture, and prayerful reflection. We hope you will find the authors, poets, and artists to be wise guides and friends as you enter into a companioned journey of patience in Christ through the door of imagination.
This reader is intended to be used alongside the Art House Dallas Origin program, if you are unable to afford this reader and would still love to participate, please fill out this form and let us know your situation.
On Patience will be mailed to participants. Pickup dates will be available in Dallas as well.