Art With Those Least Likely To Get Such Opportunities

We were privileged to visit Diversion/Horizon Houses again recently. Here we are with the girls in Diversion House. Most of the original batch who "graduated" to Horizon House last August are now working in supervised settings, soon to be independent, or have returned to their families. This newer batch at Diversion House will remain until August, when they too will "graduate" to Horizon House in preparation for job training and independent living. Funds derived from our Made To Create Art classes make it possible for us to bring this activity to these girls in cooperation with Catalysts. 

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April Classes Begin

Set up for classes in Reflection Art Gallery

Chuck leads a "vase-face" drawing exercise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Janis describing some principles of composition

One of the students trying out a view-finder

The class concentrating on drawing their foot

We also started a preschool class on this day. After class, one of the students was having fun with balloons.

Nepal Workshops - 2

following are just of few of the 45 photos we have from this Workshop - an American couple were conducting a 15-day Workshop affiliated with Randy Clark Ministries in the U.S. They were gracious to allow us this day to introduce art and creativity to many of these ministry leaders in Kathmandu and Nepal. If you would like to view the remainder, try logging onto this Picassa site: https://picasaweb.google.com/lindley.chuck/SchoolOfSupernaturalWorkshop?authkey=Gv1sRgCPHq4MOVrsSYBQ#

If you have trouble, email me and I will provide the link.

Nepal Workshops

After many cancellations and re-schedules, this trip to Nepal finally came off from February 25-March 4. Below will begin a series of posts showing some of the activities and events of the 5 Workshops and 1 mural we painted... (as time, and - our internet connection - allows, more will be posted).

Kathmandu Youth at Himalayan Evangelical Church ....

The Day of Small Things

We're back! After several months in the U.S. we returned to New Delhi January 7. We had a wonderful time seeing friends and family and getting to celebrate the holidays at "home" for the first time in three years. Thanks to all of you who made our time "home" so comfortable, enjoyable, and such a time of healing from the stresses of cross-cultural living!

Here are some pictures from our first creative/art activity in India after such a long pause:

Creative Time @ Reflection Art Gallery - The Day of Small Things

Reflecting on a couple wisdom texts:
  "Don't despise the day of small things." and
  "When we are faithful in small things, bigger things come to us."
we warmed up to painting by discussing the importance of "small things" then experimented on small scrap pieces of canvas preparing for a finished painting on a stretched 3"x3" canvas. Here's the process and some results:

A Couple Encouraging Notes:

• The artist we trained and taught with from 2008 through spring 2010, who returned to his homeland due to family matters, just contacted us to thank us for equipping him to teach. He's now teaching on his own in a school setting in Nagaland.
• One of the artists we began working with during summer of 2010, and who started out as a self-proclaimed, militant, feminist, atheist, has begun attending church and asking some very insightful and probing questions about God and eternal matters! She says she is so joyful and has a difficult time explaining it. She also thanked us for not turning our back on her. We so look forward to continue speaking into her life.