Christ in the Psalms 2026: Call to Artists
On May 31st, we’ll be back in our summer series in the Psalms. As always, the title of our summer series is “Christ In The Psalms” as we call Park Church to learn to pray from the Psalms (this year we will be in Psalms 11-20). It’s in the Psalter that we learn to bring every emotion before God, with the people of God, seeing the Son of God as the hero of each and every psalm.
The Project
We would like to invite you to participate in the “Christ in the Psalms” art exhibition. If you were here the last few years, we are planning on doing the same thing: asking 10 different artists (and this year, including Poets as well) from Park Church to take on one psalm each and seek to capture it with their art form, either visually or poetically using the 18” x 18” wood panels . We already have these squares purchased for this project. If you’d like to see some Christ In The Psalms samples from years past, please click here.
Why are we doing this project?
Part of engaging Jesus with our whole self involves offering Him our imaginations so that they may also be discipled. This takes place in those who create art, but also those who view and consider art. This project directly serves that goal. It is also exciting to see the diversity of creativity that results though everyone receives the same sized panel. Everyone has the opportunity to engage the psalms in slightly different ways, as their offered-creativity shines a slightly different light on these verses.
The Details:
We want to feature the artwork in Park Church corresponding to the week that particular psalm is being preached. As the sponsor of this show, Park Church would like to photograph the works and use the photos to promote the series and for the continuing edification of the church.
Each respective artist will of course retain the intellectual copyrights as well as the physical piece that is created for the show. You are welcome to sell your piece if that is helpful, or if you’d like to donate it to Park Church once you’re done, we’ll gladly accept it! This year we are exhibiting art from:
- Visual Artists
- Poets (written poetry will be submitted as text for formatting to the Park Church Communications Team)
The Process
Here’s a brief outline and explanation of what the process would look like if you are intrigued by the idea:
- If you are interested, send an email to Seth Coulter, Art Coordinator or message Joel Limpic, Pastor of Liturgy & Arts ,with your art form and samples (be it photos or a website). Also, please provide a general idea of how long you’ve been at Park Church and your involvement here.
- Once we get your email, a team of artists will look over the list of requests and select 10 artists to participate in this year. If we don’t choose you, please don’t feel rejected or passed over. We simply have a limited amount of psalms and panels.
- For those selected to participate in this year’s Christ in the Psalms art exhibition, we’ll send those selected a link to a Google Spreadsheet that has all available psalms, due date, as well as a place to sign up. Please put down your name and medium under the psalm you chose.
- Once you do that, we can set up a time for you to either pick up a panel at Park Church or potentially we could drop one off for you (or have one mailed to you). Christian Rey-Uribe, Park’s Office Coordinator, will be your contact person for this. His number is (720) 404-3254 and email is (christian@parkchurch.org).
- Now comes the fun part. Take time to read, absorb, study and meditate on the Psalm you’ve chosen before creating your work. Your work can be a response to, illustration of, parallel idea to, or inspired by the Psalm. Keep in mind that this work will be displayed in a church/worship context and will be seen by people from all stages and walks of life, from children to seniors, Christian and non-Christian. With that in mind, please be aware of potentially offensive imagery or themes. While we believe there is absolutely a place to address challenging themes and topics through art; in a worship context (with a particularly broad audience) our role is to partner with the worship team and pastors in caring for and teaching the church.
- Submit the piece. We’ll also ask you for a brief bio and your thoughts on the piece and process that we’d display with the artwork. The due date for the pieces is May 24th, the week before the series starts.
