Among Friends - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 31 May 2018 21:19:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.5 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Among Friends - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 Creativity and the Arts https://www.quakerranter.org/creativity-and-the-arts/ https://www.quakerranter.org/creativity-and-the-arts/#respond Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:00:10 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=60954 Happy first of the month. The new issue of Friends Journal is up and it’s a great one: Creativity and the Arts. This is actually the first issue on the arts since the magazine went to color in 2013. Here’s a bit of the introductory Among Friends column written by yours truly:

This overt distrust of the arts faded away a long time ago. Today, the sheer volume of creativity among Friends is impressive. When we put out a call for this issue, we had far more submissions than we could possibly print. A dozen more artists told us they would love to write something but were too busy creating to do so at this time. Faced with a bit of a dilemma, we’ve created a sampler: each of the articles in these pages represents a different facet of creativity among Friends.

Throughout the diverse disciplines of visual arts, music, writing, photography, community-based art, and performance art, a common thread harks back to the concerns of those earlier Friends: there’s still a conscientiousness around art.

I’ll talk more about individual articles as we feature them but in the meantime, feel free to leave me your initial thoughts in the comments below. Bummed that you didn’t write anything? The issue on Meetings and Money is looking for submissions.


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