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Highlights
- Perhaps in no other way do we more vibrantly reflect our creator than with our creativity.
- About the Author: Rachel Marie Kang is a New York native, born and raised just outside New York City.
- 240 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Christian Life
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About the Book
In her rich prose, poet and blogger Rachel Kang guides readers on a creative and cathartic journey to experience peace, pleasure, and spiritual impact through any artistic outlet.Book Synopsis
Perhaps in no other way do we more vibrantly reflect our creator than with our creativity. Whether through music, writing, baking, painting, posting on social media, dancing, or any other form of artistic expression within our grasp, we were created to create. Yet, there are times we may be unsure about our art, times when our creating and making doesn't feel possible or purposeful or practical.Rachel Marie Kang wants you to know that your art is not peripheral to life--it is at the very heart of why you exist and what you have to offer to yourself and to the world. In Let There Be Art, she gives you permission to embrace the peace, pleasure, and purpose inherent in your art and in the process of making it. This passionate, creative, and cathartic journey invites you to create truthfully out of the broken and beautiful pieces of your life, as well as offer your heart and your art in hopes of helping a hurting world.
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We were created to createPerhaps in no other way do we more vibrantly reflect our Creator than with our creativity, whether through music, writing, hospitality, photography, painting, design, comedy, dance, or any other form of artistic expression. Yet, there are times when our creating and making don't feel possible, purposeful, or practical.
Rachel Marie Kang wants you to know that your art is not peripheral to life--it is at the very heart of why you exist. It is how you can partner with God to carry his light into dark places. In Let There Be Art, she gives you permission to embrace the peace, pleasure, and purpose inherent in your art and in the process of making it. This passionate, creative, and cathartic journey invites you to create truthfully out of the broken and beautiful pieces of your life and offer your art to a hurting world.
"Let There Be Art is a salve to the soul and a call to see the world through new eyes. It is a triumph!"--Alli Worthington, author, speaker, and founder of The Coach School
"We need art. And we need books like this one that remind us of the necessity of our creativity and the importance of sharing our gift with the world."--Jeff Goins, bestselling author of Real Artists Don't Starve
"Let There Be Art is a liturgy of healing and restoration for the artist soul and gives a breath of fresh air for beginning again."--Arielle Estoria, poet, author, actor, artist
About the Author
Rachel Marie Kang is a New York native, born and raised just outside New York City. She is a writer of poems, prose, and other pieces, and she is the founder of Fallow Ink. A mixed woman of African American, Native American (Ramapough Lenape Nation), Irish, and Dutch descent, she is a graduate of Nyack College with a Bachelor of Arts in English with Creative Writing and a minor in Bible. Her writing has been featured by Christianity Today, Charlotte Magazine, and (in)courage. Rachel lives and writes just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband and two children.Dimensions (Overall): 8.43 Inches (H) x 5.43 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)
Weight: .74 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 240
Genre: Religion + Beliefs
Sub-Genre: Christian Life
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
Format: Paperback
Author: Rachel Marie Kang
Language: English
Street Date: October 11, 2022
TCIN: 86246439
UPC: 9780800740863
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-8341
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Inspiring and encouraging!
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Sarah B - 2 years ago
This is an inspiring book about the power and purpose of our creativity as people of faith. Each chapter is an exploration into a different facet of our art-making and features insights gleaned from her own life and from the lives of others. I love how she blended her poetic prose with prayer, practices, and prompts at the end of each chapter. Her words about play and breath were especially meaningful to me!
Let There Be Art ~ Rachel Marie Kang
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Susan - 2 years ago, Verified purchaser
Somewhere in the midst of all of the unknown and fear that came with 2020, I found Rachel. Rachel’s words speak to my spirit and I am lifted. Let There Be Art is not simply a book of art that one might find on a wall. It is a book of words that provide hope and courage and grace and love that are healing. There is art to be found in home and fairytales and silence and remembrance. I look at art in a new way that would not have happened without Rachel’s words. Rachel’s words fill me.
You're called to create.
5 out of 5 stars
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Liv Holloway - 3 years ago
This one's a special one. Truly, truly special. I came across Rachel on an episode of Morgan Harper Nichols' podcast in the midst of all that was unknown in 2020. I had never heard of her, never seen her work, never dreamed that what I'd hear that day would send ripple effects and ricochet over the next season of my life. She painted a picture with words of all that I might hope to be true – making sense of the tug to make, to create, to show up in all the ways we might feel called to. I started following her then, among other artists and authors I admired, piecing together this collective of people purposefully doing and showing and sharing. Even though I was personally walking through one of the hardest winters of my life, Rachel's words and ways of making anyway carried me in a particularly needed way. Almost every time she'd share or write or ask, it's like my soul would cry a resounding, "YES." In the spring of this year, I decided to throw my name in the hat for her coaching sessions. To my delight and surprise, she had time and space for me. From the moment we started meeting, I felt so deeply known, seen, and understood by her. She is one of the most creatively refreshing and sincere people I've ever met. There are authors in the world who write from a kind of separation, but there are others who you can tell seek to be integrated with all that they wrestle with. Rachel embodies all that she's embraced and navigated in writing this book you can now have in your hands. Over and above anyone else I listen to or hear from, Rachel has a way with words that is poetic, inspiring, filling, and fueling. Her perspective and articulation of how and why we're made is invigorating. This book is full of real-life, real-deal wonderings, wanderings, and ways to engage what our hearts long for (and are made for). This isn't just for the "creatives" or "artists", per se, but it calls to the art and creativity inherent within you. “Art as a way of climbing back toward the light. Yes, art as a way of pushing back the darkness within ourselves, within our world.” And as she so artfully points out, "art" is much more than what you might picture. Let it be any and all ways that you need – painting or playing, writing or wrestling, moving or making, showing up or staying, connecting or reflecting, pausing or producing, laughing or lamenting. “Any and all art that helps, heals, names, entertains, redeems is good. By and through art, we are led out of hiding and into hereness — out of obscurity and into the obvious.” “The act of creating does more than create things; it restores things. It calms things. It heals things. It saves things. It lets light into our lives, and it pushes back darkness.” So let there be art, friends. And let there be many purchases of this book because honestly it's so, so good.