NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

Sketchbooks in the making

On one of my recent appointments with a fellow Cru staff—Chris, I found him hard at work cutting covers off books—a typical activity around this time of year. Now before you reel let me tell you the whole story of this annual occurrence. For many years now we have...

Farewell to Hill City Church

When we first moved to Rock Hill—11 years ago—we knew where we were going to go to church. Most of the artists we knew were going to Hill City Church. It was planted around 2011 and had already been meeting together for a year or more when we arrived. In fact we had...

A year in review of an arts ministry

I (Kirk) recently was invited to a local Anglican church to do the sermon. The rector of the church said they wish to become more connected to what we do in ministering to the arts community in Rock Hill. One of our staffers in a recent conversation with an artist who...

Birdsong Like a Canopy

When we first moved to Rock Hill, Friday Arts Project did a series of forum on subjects related to arts and culture. That year, 2013, the topic was truth and poetry/art and we called the forum “Dazzle Gradually: The Allure of Poetic Truth-bearing”. The title comes...