Don’t miss seeing Hezekiah’s tunnel!
This past summer I promoted an opportunity for artists to use their creative skills in the preparation of a major art installation entitled Re-imagining Hezekiah’s Tunnel. You may recall my blog and an article promoting this in our summer 2024 THRIVE magazine, Patron: Capturing the Arts.
Go see Re-imagining Hezekiah’s Tunnel, November 2-26, 2024
I’ve asked The Portage Arts Group director, James Tughan, to explain this unique creative experience:
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THIRST Re-imagining Hezekiah’s Tunnel The Portage Art Group, the Golden Horseshoe’s faith-based art group focused on mental health and the arts, is mounting a major exhibition this Fall at the gallery in Oakville’s Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre. This exhibition is wrapped around the idea of water (or the absence of it) as a metaphor for the life-giving creative process of artmaking. We are suggesting that this God-given process of imagination and artistry is reflected in the dynamic properties of water, its movement, its ability to bend light, to move objects and people, and basically sustain life itself. In addition to works in painting, drawing and sculpture, we are mounting an unusual, interactive display in which we are constructing an aboveground section of Hezekiah’s tunnel. This water-bearing aqueduct was dug by Hezekiah during a time of siege against the city. The tunnel preserved the city’s water supply, connecting the Gihon Spring with the Pool of Siloam, also a place of healing in the time of Jesus. We are suggesting that artmaking is the most therapeutic agent of healing in God’s good world, and we invite everyone to come see truly fine artwork from our artists this November. We are suggesting a reframing of Jesus’ encouragement to those who thirst in this life. THIRST Re-imagining Hezekiah’s Tunnel Water, Artistry, and Mental Health Saturday, November 2 to Tuesday, November 26 The Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre Gallery, 2302 Bridge Rd. Oakville, ON Reception: November 2, at 7:00pm For more information contact James Tughan at: tughanj@gmail.com |
I encourage you to support this wonderful artistic endeavour some time in November if you live or are visiting the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Maybe we’ll bump into one another during my visit to this art exhibition.
I remain prayerful our local churches will continue to find ways to capture the arts in their ministry life. Maybe a bus trip to Oakville, ON in November?