As a part of its ministry to the community, the Ministry of Worship, Music, & the Arts developed a series entitled Arts of the Spirit.  This annual series includes Master Classes, Gathered to Sing Festivals, Concerts With a Cause, and visual art exhibits.

Beauty Given by Grace: the Biblical Prints of Sadao Watanabe

Beauty Given by Grace:  The Biblical Prints of Sadao Watanabe brings together fifty stencil prints, calendars and cars on biblical themes from the collections of Sandra Bowden and John A Kohan.

Japan’s foremost Christian artist, Sadao Watanabe (1913-1996) converted from Buddhism to Christianity at 17 years old.  He combined his new faith with an interest in preserving the traditional Japanese folk art of katazome stencil dying by creating colorful representation of biblical scenes that he hoped would speak to his people. The works on display places these biblical scenes in a Japanese context.  In The Last Supper (1981) Watanabe depicts the disciples in kimono. On the table are bottles of sake and sushi.

This exhibit is free and open to the public Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m.. to 2:00 p.m. You may also visit the exhibit on Sundays from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public

• The inaugural class, a liturgical dance master class, was held Saturday, October 3, 2009. For more information about this workshop, click here>>
• Highly Favored:  Contemporary Images of the Virgin Mary
• Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA) in conjunction with the Center for Christian Studies at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, cosponsored this traveling exhibition.
• Concert with a Cause--Westminster Choir College Concert Bell Choir
  Kathy Ebling-Thorne, Musical Director
  Proceeds benefitted CHRIS kid
• Gathered to Sing Hymn Festival with Mark Sedio
  Mark Sedio, Director of Music/Cantor at Central Lutheran Church in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, lead us in "A Spectrum of Singing," an evening of hymn singing, anthems, and narration.   
• Photography Exhibit
  Photographs of Bill Culp and artwork from Margaret Fain Elementary School students
  This exhibit honors Bill & Gay Culp on the first anniversary of their deaths.
• Stations of the Cross – Kathrin Burleson
• Westminster Choir College Concert Bell Choir.  To view photos from this Concert With A Cause benefiting Chris Kids, click here.
• Eden to Etermity--A collection of 40 Panamanian Molas with Biblical themes; exhibit is from the Bowden Collection, Sandra Bowden Artwork
• Windsongs – Caligraphy of Timothy Botts
• Enacted Worship:  A Master Class with Friends of the Groom Theater Company
• Unweavings: Thirty pieces of art by fibert artist, Laurie Wohl.  For more information on this exhibit, click here.
• Gathered to Sing Hymn Festival 2011 with David Cherwien
  David Cherwien, music director of the National Lutheran Choir, lead the choirs and congregations of Central Church and Druid Hills Presbyterian Church in "Lumen de Lumine" (Light from Light)
• St. John's Bible Exhibit
• Seeing Christ in the Darkness, the art of Georges Roualt
• African-American Spirituals, the calligraphy of Timothy Botts
• Life of the Young Child, Photos of children in the Central Child Development Center by photographers David Harris and Meg Buscema
• Angels, Shepherds, and Kings by artist, Christina Saj
• Concert With a Cause:  The Raleigh Ringers (May 2012)
• The art of Joan Bohlig www.bohliggrahics.com
• CIVA Exhibit:  Scribes of Hope II:  A Calligraphy Art Exhibit
• Crosses by artist James Quentin Young
• Psalms art exhibit as a part of the Worship Renewal Grant from the Calvin Institute of Worship