And in You all Nations will be Blessed
And in You all Nations will be Blessed

The LORD said to Abram, “Leave your land, your relatives, and your father's home. Go to the land that I will show you. I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing to all nations.” GEN 12:1-2  We are all Abraham's descendants. Jews, Christians and Muslims bring with them, together with their unique birthrights from the Father of the great Western Faiths, the longstanding, seminal sibling rivalries that run through the lines and life of Abraham's family. And yet for all our differences, each of our three faiths believes in a God who is known and manifest to us as Divinely revealed. Mystic, martyr, messenger of the Good News, our seeds come from the fertile ground of the first man to understand God's eclipsing, encompassing oneness. Jews and Christians live their lives in accordance to the Hebrew Scriptures and the Gospel of Jesus Christ; Muslims live according to the five pillars of Islam and the word of Allah, which came through their last and final prophet, Muhammud. All of us though with different trajectories, revolve around the briilliant light that is One God. There is no God but God, and blessed is [s]HE who comes in the name of God.

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Michael Carter Lamb

michael carter lambMICHAEL CARTER contributes an exclusive original; collaborative work with founder Deborah Rise Mrantz. Ahava/Love will be available as supra-high quality Giclee repro on canvas, as the newest fine art addition to GUILDWORKS iABRAHAM la Bodega digital storefront!

Erling Hope

erling hopeThis past fall, Guildworks artist ERLING HOPE was part of a team created by Temple Adas Israel to re-envision the festival of Sukkot as a community-wide Jewish Harvest Festival. Erling Hope re-designed their sukkah.

Carter Teaching

michael carter teachingIn his role as art teacher, Michael Carter works with his Charlotte, NC, students to produce a hand made limited edition book. Watch the video recording the process or follow the work on his teaching blogspot.

Lil Copan

lil copanMark One of quadriptych The Four Evangelists project by Guildworks artist Lil Copan. Read more here

Trinity Band

trinityFelicidades! Trinity Band wins the Silver Dove Award (NL’s equivalent to the Dove Awards) for best album of 2012 for their album Que Mas. Purchase their specially signed first press CDs to benefit the homeless here

Steven Spann

steven spannFind Guildworks artist Steven Spann’s new Christian scripture-based work at Winters Fine Art Gallery

 

Ruh Al'Alam

ruh al'alamCheck out Ruh al'Alam/ Visual Dhikr short motion art video VDO at visualdhikr.com. Al'Alam’s work is featured at the Islamic Arts Festival and spans the gamut from traditional Islamic calligraphy to design with ecumenist sensibility.

Living Waters

The priestly vocation is characterized by [human] reconciliation and healing which testifies to the presence of the kingdom of God even in the midst of a broken world, a world governed by powers and principalities that deny the world its eucharistic identity. But it is a world in which God is "making everything new"(REV 21:5).  A sacramental worldview brings to the fore the importance of the priestly vocation, a vocation not limited to the clergy but intended for all members of the church, for [humanity's] destiny is to be a kingdom of priests (EX 19:6). Humanity has a unique responsibility in this sacramental world which is underwritten, sustained, made visible and mediated by the church, sacramental reality of the world. This responsibility is first and foremost a priestly role, established through Christ's fulfillment of the priestly role given to Adam. …The clergy as set apart from the laity are so set apart only to reveal the priestly role (1PET 2:9) of all those baptized into the body of Christ.  Siedell, D

PARTNER ORGS- MINISTRIES

Partner Orgs and MinistriesLOGOS GUILDWORKS collaborates with partner organizations and ministries of philosophically and spiritually companion pastoral directions, encouraging exchange in (Abrahamic) faith-based ministry and collaborating in projects of shared substantive theological-ecclesial ecumenism. In partnering with various religious, secular-civic, theological and interfaith organizations, LOGOS GUILDWORKS seeks to inform and encourage transformative religious experience–through collaborations with arts-worship communities, and monasteries or retreats with emphasis in spiritual formation and contemplative life. As these venues manifest through partnerships and urban explorations of living into Hebrew bible and Christian Gospels from revitalized and resonant spheres, LOGOS GUILDWORKS enjoins congregants and communities, religious and lay people to vitally pursuing focused lives of fully lived faith.

Welcome to GUILDWORKS™ interfaith community! A revolutionary new ministry in Divine word and holy spirit. GUILDWORKS™ Ministries' genesis is the culmination of inspired hands and hearts and souls–over four years. Building, articulating, stewarding God's word we hope GUILDWORKS™ continues to be blessed by fruits of the Spirit. LOGOS GUILDWORKS MINISTRIES is an ecumenical enterprise founded in 2007 in Santa Fe New Mexico. A modern Abrahamic interfaith initiative fusing Design and arts-ministry, faith-formation and Fellowships, online pastoral-care conversations in contemporary paradigms re-envisioning God’s word. GUILDWORKS™ encourages all Abrahamic family to covenantally common ground, partnering the passion of the first Evangelists with new Chassidic Judaism's joyful witness–relevantly and generatively living in authentic architectures of Abrahamic faith.

We'll continue bringing GUILDWORKS™ fully online as we gear-up to launch our partner iABRAHAM™ not-for-prophet hospitality–A collaboration of faith-based designers, artisans and trades professionals creating Design and FineArts, faith-informed Fashion and missional worldMusic, coolly expressive GEARfor the Urban grind and hipster help for New York City's homeless. Connect to GUILDWORKS™ through web-based conversations or adventure into iABRAHAM™ Urbanware; Interact via our youTube channel with GUILDWORKS™ diverse dimensions and online .comMunity in faith-formation, fellowships and pastoral care chaplaincies radically revisioning Divine work in the world.

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GUILDWORKS™ Members

RIGHTEOUS B | DIRTY VAGABOND MINISTRIES Bob Lesnefsky

RIGHTEOUS B | DIRTY VAGABOND MINISTRIES   Bob Lesnefsky

RIGHTEOUS B online

Media Music Rap, Hip-Hop

Bio/Artist Statement

Bob Lesnefsky is a pre-eminent Catholic MC and sought-after performance homilist. Together with his Rap as Righteous B, he serves as president of Dirty Vagabond Ministries–with over 10 years of hands-on experience in youth ministry, and as a (youth) minister in both Urban and Suburban churches. Bob is currently an active Christian Hip Hop artist and speaker traveling to over 100 venues a year, using rap music as part of transforming culture and utilizing its outreach to touch people of all ages and denominations, in all walks of life.

Christian Guémy

Christian Guémy

Christian Guémy online

Media Graffiti Artist

Bio/Artist Statement

I am Catholic; I paint faces of religious people from all over the world without making distinctions of culture, ethnicity or education. For a portraitist mysticism is the gathering of all mankind behind painted faces–emotion brought by any human face–being the most direct and most genuine proof of the importance of any life, any identity and any soul. As a Catholic I see beauty in every human visage–particularly society's neglected minorities, homeless, marginalized and trivialized as the most beautiful of God's creations, in whom Christ lives; my street portraiture aims always to show their dignity embodying compassion as a testament to God's equal love for all human beings.www.flickr.com/photos/c215/show/

Ruh al'Alam

Ruh al'Alam

Ruh al-'Alam online

Media Design

Bio

Ruh al-'Alam is the founding artist of Visual Dhikr, and the founding partner of design studio Make Me Believe. Born in London of Bangladeshi origin, Ruh al-'Alam is a young graduate in illustration and graphic design, from Central Saint Martins. He works in a variety of mediums including illustration, film, audio, interactivity and photography, and newly in sculpture and digital interactive work. Ruh's work uses his own Arabic scripts with a contemporary digital graphic design influence; Core areas of his work are Calligraphy–modern but in keeping with traditional script work; Paintings based on his calligraphic works; Interactive work for presentations and online presence; Art installations integrating sound and imagery. The work is often displayed as oil/acrylic paintings, art prints, screen prints or projections. Ruh founded Visual Dhikr in 2003, concentrating on the spiritual element in remembrance of God and contemplation of His Creation, concepts appearing often as threads throughout his work. Ruh al-'Alam has also founded and currently runs his own collaborative design studio, Make Me Believe from London.

Jim LePage

Jim LePage

Jim LePage online

Media Design, Visual Arts

Bio

Jim LePage is an artist and graphic designer in Bellingham, WA, working as Senior Designer with Logos Bible Software, as well as having his own graphic design business. He has an ongoing project, Word, creating original designs based on each book of the Bible. LePage is also co-creator and curator of Old & New, a collaborative design project based on passages in the Bible.

Steven Spann

Steven Spann

Steven Spann online

Media Sculpture, Visual Arts

Bio/Artist Statement

Steven Spann (born 1969) works in collaboration using discarded objects chosen by third parties. His work focuses on social engagement exploring the questions of value and worth. Many of these pieces are layered using acrylic, polymer, spray paint, cardboard, paper, plastic, wood, clothing, etc. Spann is completely ambidextrous so many pieces are done left hand or right hand exclusive; This contributes to his wide range of discipline.

Spann has exhibited work across the United States and he has had solo exhibitions in Dallas, Philadelphia and Las Vegas; he also has been artist-in-residence at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas. His work appears in several public and private collections including Sir Elton John, Donald Trump (NY), Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art (NV), Biblical Arts Museum (Dallas, TX), Rick Hilton (LA), and Cosmopolitan Las Vegas (NV). Spann currently lives and works in Las Vegas, NV.

DVEYKUS | Baruch Chertok

DVEYKUS | Baruch Chertok

Baruch Chertok

DVEYKUSonline

Media (Fashion) Design

Bio

Baruch, currently based in Brooklyn, seamlessly bridges the gap between art, music and fashion as well as culture, spirituality and philosophy into his designs. A graduate of FIDM in San Francisco and a fashion & graphic designer by trade who has worked for industry leaders such as Bisou Bisou and Z.Cavaricci, Baruch's relationship with Judaism sprouted from a seemingly simple question: What does it mean to be Jewish? The question had a profound impact leading Baruch on an exploration that resulted in a major shift in his perspective. Dveykus is a by-product of his journey.

Maece Seirafi

Maece Seirafi

Maece Seirafi online

Media Design, Visual Arts

Bio

Maece Seirafi was born in San Francisco, California but was raised in Damascus, Syria, where most of her love of letterforms, art, poetry and calligraphy was cultivated. In 2005 she graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles with a BFA in Communication Arts. Arabic calligraphy and Latin letterforms remained a strong, central theme throughout her work at Otis. After an extensive Type Design class with the renown type designer Leah Hoffmitz, bilingual identities in typography led her to pursue and complete an MFA at the Graphic Design program at the California Institute of the Arts in 2010. She studied under several talented design visionaries such as Louise Sandhaus, Lorraine Wild, Ed Fella, Michael Worthington, and Jefferey Keedy. Seirafi continues to explore the nuances of Arabic and Latin typography, and how bilingual identities could be further developed typographically. She is an independent graphic designer heavily involved in several local Arab American projects as well as multicultural organizations. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Maece Seirafi’s work is recognized by INDEX DESIGN:Designing Water’s Future 2010 book CalArts Magazine Summer 2010 issue Communication Arts July/Aug 2009 issue INDEX DESIGN: AIGA/Aspen Design Challenge 2009 Finalist Certificate of Outstanding Achievement from Department of Water and Power 2009 First Place Logo Competition 2007 for Reach Program Otis Best of Show Exhibition 2005, Communication Arts.

Trinity

Trinity

TRINITY BAND online

Media Music

Bio

Trinity is a band formed by 4 young talented musicians from The Netherlands. Three of the band members, the Smelt brothers, spent their childhood in Peru. Their South American up-tempo musical roots together with their love for Celtic music are the ingredients of Trinity's passionate pop songs. Their first album named 'Inicio' was released in October of 2007 and was received very well by their audience. Trinity continued to develop as a band and in the summer of 2008 they won a band battle for the Netherlands’ biggest Christian broadcasting agency, the EO. This formed the onset for their second album ‘Cada Dia’ which they recorded in January 2009. ‘Cada Dia’ mixes the Peruvian roots and Celtic influences with African beats and up-tempo grooves. They have a strong live performance that makes the crowd swing, sing along and dance. Last summer Trinity played at the mainstage of the biggest Dutch ‘Xnoizz Flevo festival’. They also played as a support act for ‘NewWorldSon’ (Canada), ‘IONA’ (UK) and ‘Sons of Korah’(Australia). Up till now they have recorded 4 albums and sold over 30 000 cd’s.