Can art help us get through (and bear witness in) hard times?
The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts (aka FQA) thinks so. A new example is the just-published issue of FQA’s journal, Types & Shadows, (aka T&S) online right now, right here.
T&S was launched in 1996, the new issue is #101, for Autumn 2024. In its pages you’ll find stunning color photography, striking poetry, a historical Quaker novel excerpt and arts reporting.
For a long time, Friends shunned the arts (more on this here, in FQA‘s free online pamphlet Beyond Uneasy Tolerance ).
But today the arts seem to be thriving among us.
This is always good news. (An archive of earlier T&S issues back into the 1990s is here.) But it could be even better in hard times. In 2017, FQA sponsored a project, “The Art of Fearlessness,” as a response in a similarly turbulent period. Continue reading New Issue of a Quaker Arts Journal — Now Online