NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

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...

Sketchbook-making

Since we live in a zone between the Church and the Art World – in this case in the local Rock Hill art community, we are always engaging with our neighbors and friends via art and creativity. We truly believe the zone art exists in—that of Beauty—creates space for God...