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ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Tahlib

On this Easter morning, we pray for Thomas Kincade and his family. Kincade, the self-styled Painter of Light died on Good Friday at the age of 54, and that is the NEWS OF WEEK. According to his website, Kinkade sold more canvases than any painter in history (above is "Risen"). That's more than Picasso, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Gaugain, Monet, Manet, and Renoir combined! While critics argue that Kinkade didn't make serious art, he is the most widely collected artist in America today.

As a Christian, this holyweek is the most special week of my year:

• Lent: 40 Days of Art for Lent & Easter 2012 [link]
• Judaic Art of Week: Marking Passover with Haggadahs [link]
• Passover: Rhapsody (Video) - A Jewish Rock Opera [link]
• Lord's Evening Meal: Art for Jehovah's Witnesses [link]
• Good Friday: Saint Luke's United Methodist Church, Indiana
• Easter 2012: Life Journey Church, Indianapolis, Indiana [link]

To follow my holyweek journey, I'm providing links for the years of Alpha Omega Arts: 2011, 2010, and 2009. Whether Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jew or non-denominational, we are all members of a giant spiritual family, united in the search for human meaning through art from the religious imagination. For us, it's more than Art. It's Religion.