Advent Art Show
The Advent Art Show is a series of 15 printable images and meditations for contemplation during the season of Advent. All images and meditations are from the book Honest Advent.
How it works
When you purchase and install this Art Show, viewers will enjoy a fully-immersive experience as they visit each station to read and reflect. Each poster has a QR code linking to the meditation fort that station here on my website.
Getting started:
Download the images and print them out at your local print shop. Watch the how-to video here.
Install the show in your space.
Enjoy the show!
How others are setting up the show!
Curious about how it looks installed in a space? Check out how others are installing the show.
Artist Statement
Is the Christmas story just something that happened a long time ago . . . or is it a story that is still happening today?
For too many of us the celebration of Christmas has lost its wonder. Maybe for you it has become a bittersweet season of complicated family rituals, or a predictable brand masking unquenchable consumerism, or simply a sacred story that feels far from any relevance in our current chaotic world.
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These images from Honest Advent seek to illuminate the astonishing, hope-filled truth that the God who showed up in the hardest parts of our humanity is still showing up today in those same places.
We often forget that the encounter with the incarnate Christ happens in unexpected places, like a pregnancy announcement in an time of political unrest and empirical bloodshed, the morning sickness of a Middle Eastern teenager, or the shocking biology of home birth that goes far beyond the sanitized brand of Christmas as we know it.
Through contemplative observations, sacred questioning, and honest prayers, you will discover that the wonder of God-with-Us is still happening today - in your unexpected change of plans, your unaccomplished dreams, your unforeseen message in the stars, your humble new beginnings. “Let’s go and see” is the relevant invitation to finding God-With-us today as it was back then.
Image 1: BEGINNING
Image 2: PRESENT
Image 3: END
Image 4: ANNUNCIATION
Image 5: LIGHT
Image 6: GIVEN
Image 7: VISIBLE
Image 8: VIRGIN
Image 9: GROW
Image 10: VULNERABILITY
Image 11: MOTHERHOOD
Image 12: WITH
Image 13: JOY
Image 14: PARTICIPATE
Image 15: ATTENTION
This Advent art show is available for spiritual formation for all kinds of communities of faith.