OUR
MISSION is...
to inspire creative individuals to meet high artistic standards, as well
as the high standards of living a Christian life.
Below you'll find testimonials, previous press coverage, and more talk about us. You can also explore our affiliations and supporting partner organizations.
TESTIMONIALS:
"Trinity Arts Conference is rich in thoughts and ideas. The conference explores and nourishes the life of the mind with care and enjoyment. It is like a happy family coming to an evening meal."
Edward Knippers
Painter"The number one event of my summer. The speakers are so good I find myself reviewing notes taken at lectures and discussions there years after the conference."
Mary McCleary
Visual Artist"Because it grows out of a vibrant community of believers struggling to probe the mysterious relationship between faith and art, the Trinity Arts Conference has become one of the most innovative and well-organized events of its kind in the country. It draws outstanding speakers and a diverse audience. The themes are carefully chosen and provide food for thought, long after the event is concluded. At every TAC numerous friendships are made and lives changed. This one's a keeper."
Gregory Wolfe
Writer, Editor
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE:
The Dallas-based Trinity Arts Conference provides an annual weekend of community with artists of all disciplines.
TAC is an annual conference by and for artists of all kinds. Our volunteers, speakers, and workshop leaders come from all areas of artistic endeavor, including sculpture, painting, poetry, film, theater, music, songwriting, prose fiction, and the arts in ministry.
TAC enjoys a growing reputation for encouraging excellence across the broad range of artistic disciplines - inspiring creative individuals to meet high artistic standards, as well as the high standards of living a Christian life.
With abiding interest in issues of art, faith and integrity, the Conference offers a truly interdisciplinary experience.
The 2007 event marks the 11th annual conference, and the 9th conference to be held at the University of Dallas.
TAC is led today by Kim Alexander, a visual artist, and Mike Capps, a composer. The event was founded in 1995 by David Sims, a musician, and by Dr. James Parker of the Trinity Institute, as an outgrowth of the Trinity Institute's academic conferences in Tehucana, Texas.
The Trinity Arts Conference appreciates its supporters and those who have helped us since our first conference. TAC depends on donations and support from individuals, institutions, and churches who see the need for the integration of art, faith and the stewardship of culture. Sponsoring individuals and organizations can receive special recognition and group discounts for attendance at our conferences.
Please contact us to participate with TAC in its mission.
TRINITY ARTS CONFERENCE IN THE NEWS:
Conference gathers Christian Artists, Dallas Morning News, June 11, 2004. For the entire article, click here. Here is an excerpt:
Conference organizer Kim Alexander likened the yearly event to a gathering of old friends, who get together to chew on "issues of art, faith and integrity."
This year's event, she said, will draw upon the works of English mystic William Blake as well as Scripture to "attend to innocence and experience on Christ's terms."
"What does it mean to be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves?" she asked. "In Christ, innocence and experience are not mutually exclusive qualities, but simultaneous and perfect mysteries."
'Bear witness to the beauty that corruption begets' - Conference to use art, writing, song to explore 'God's sacred intention' , Dallas Morning News, May 31, 2003. For more about this article, click here.
Grief and longing - for paradise lost and paradise regained - are the lodestars for much great Western art. But what of the in-between? What of humanity's brief, strange step between fall and return?
The Trinity Arts Conference offers a reminder that here, in an exquisitely imperfect world, "we live within God's sacred intention," said conference organizer Kim Alexander.