RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

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ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory Disney-Britton
Gina Baird's "Untitle" self-portrait (2012) 
You can help put women on a pedestal with your gift of $1, $5, $10. This week on 12.12.12, Alpha Omega Arts joined 60 other arts groups by including its ask for $200 through "power2give." That $200 request is to purchase a pedestal for an upcoming art show at Indiana Interchurch Center Gallery. I manage this new giving program for the Arts Council of Indianapolis. It's a crowdfunding platform similar to Kickstarter and Indiegogo, except that power2give is specifically designed for nonprofit arts projects. Within 36-hours, nearly 200 donations came in totaling nearly $8,000 for various projects, including a pedestal for our gallery. That's why putting Gina Baird's "Untitled" self-portrait (above) on a pedestal through power2give is my NEWS OF WEEK.

In other Religious Art news from across the USA, and around the world:
You are invited to join a movement to discover, promote and advance the careers of contemporary religious artists! When I began the Alpha & Omega Project for Contemporary Religious Arts, it was in response to my calling to unite family and friends in celebrating artists who dared to embrace religious expression. As a result, God blessed me with a growing interfaith family. Since starting, some of you have joined by making the $100 commitment to be a member of the A&O Society; others joined as annual donors supporting the A&O Prize & Scholarship Fund; and still others as member-subscribers of this RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK. However you've joined, please know it is valued, and as always remember Religious Art is for Believers, but also for Skeptics too.

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