Category: Salvation

Ex-drug Addict Becomes an International Artist—After Messages From 3 Angels

In the creative process, we find freedom, relief, release, expression—and redemption. But for noted Southern California ceramicist Rich Lopez, the creative process and the hummingbird ceramic that became a part of his identity had to wait. He had to die first, to experience this new creative life. “That second time, I tell people I committed suicide. It wasn’t…


Salvation Through Art: ‘The Celebration of Svantovit’

There are historical moments when we turn our backs on the divine and suffer for it, but the traditional arts can always serve as a link back.  Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), who worked before and after the independence of Czechoslovakia in 1918, believed that art serves a spiritual purpose.  Mucha spent much of his early life in France creating commercial…