An interesting video article (8 minutes) about spiritual art from PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The retreat is actually called the "Glen Workshop". Website here:
http://www.imagejournal.org/glen/
I did not get to go this year (I didn't even know about it). But I think I'd like to go next year. For one thing, I think the Christian tradition especially needs a re-awakening of the life-giving power of creative art. Christian art seems to be rather limited to the written word and to some degree Christian music. But both, especially Christian music, has become highly commercialized and not much "art". The iconoclasts, those opposed to visualizing God and the spiritual life, has been so thoroughly successful, that there are few visual expressions of Christian art any more. (WWJD bracelets and the cheesy stuff you see in bookstores hardly counts).
The result of that, I think, is a decided lack of creativity in being able to think about, deeply grapple with, and resolve our many internal and external problems.
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