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Beauty Refresher: Gina Hurry

December 7, 2020 Nancy Carroll
Photo by Emily Kicklighter

Photo by Emily Kicklighter

Gina is an artist who helps me remember Heaven is coming. Through her life and art she helps me have the courage to long for more, love deeply, weep often, and risk much in this short life we have. Besides her beautiful paintings, she has just published The Beloved City, an invitation to awaken our holy imagination, in the “mess” of our daily lives and layers.

She writes, “When I started noticing the beauty of my dropcloths underneath my finished paintings, I began to see the layers and colors my daily life and work had left behind and underfoot as a treasure. The dropcloths began to represent to me vulnerability, community, and being held in a bigger story.”

Gina and I journey together in helping to encourage and sustain Birmingham-area artists, pastors, and city visionaries through InSpero. Beauty matters and so do those who create it.

Order her book here. Check out her website, instagram and Facebook.

In Beauty Refresher, Creativity Tags Gina Hurry, beauty matters, Beauty Refresher, The Beloved City, art
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Flying Broken

September 22, 2015 Nancy Carroll
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Beauty and brokenness are a package deal. If I live only in beauty, I live in denial. If I live only in brokenness, I live in despair. Beauty in the midst of brokenness is the cup of cold water, the hint of hope that there is more to come.

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In Community, Courage, Story, Uncategorized Tags #beautymatters, #thecitybeautiful, art, artists, brokenness, butterflies, C- S- Lewis, community, Courage, creativity, homepage, InSpero, swallowtail butterflies, vulnerability
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The Least Recognized (And Possibly Most Needed) Art

November 14, 2014 Nancy Carroll
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Hospitality is the most unseen but foundational of the arts . . .

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In Broomtree Ministry, Community Tags art, Babette's Feast, Bible, Brigadoon, church, Gemuetlichkeit, Henri Nouwen, hospitality, InSpero, Kiawah Island, Rivendell, writing
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Voice Lessons

March 7, 2014 Nancy Carroll
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People commented, “Wow! Beautiful. Glad it’s so ‘easy’ for them. I couldn’t do that.” They were clueless--nothing about this show was easy for these artists or for me as their soul-tender.

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In Community Tags Ann Voskamp, art, art show, artists, community, Courage, creativity, not enough, voices, vulnerability
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