Spearheaded by WonderCafe.ca and Emerging Spirit, Paint Your Faith is a bold initiative to spark public conversations about our values, our experience of spirituality, and the meaning of faith. Through Paint Your Faith, art becomes part of the dialgue, and promotes The United Church of Canada as a gathering place for people to connect and share with each other in their exploration and experience of life, faith, and spirituality.
On September 19, 2009, Paint Your Faith launched at downtown Toronto’s Metropolitan United Church with the unveiling of a stunning, one-of-a-kind urban art installation covering a 30’ x 60’ exterior wall donated by the church. The work, created by four internationally acclaimed street artists as a collective interpretation, instantly became a part of the vibrant Toronto landscape.
Yet let it be known that Paint Your Faith doesn’t just end with that 103-year old wall -- it goes well past that. Paint Your Faith is a community initiative to bring together street artists from around the world to spiritually and visually demonstrate their interpretation of faith as one unified unique piece of expression. More importantly, the mural in turn becomes a new gathering place for the community to create dialogue about life, spirituality, and art while beautifying the surrounding milieu. One has to look no further than the wall located at the corner of Church and Shuter in downtown Toronto to see a pulsating example of what it means to "Paint Your Faith."
Much like spirituality, Paint Your Faith has no real boundaries.
Brought to you by Wondercafe.ca and First United Mission Church, the Paint Your Faith project will be hitting the city of Vancouver with a 13’ x 130’ mural at 55-57 W. Hastings Street, across from the Woodwards Building.
This time around, the four internationally acclaimed aerosol artists working as a collective to express their unique and unified interpretation of faith will be Faith47 from South Africa, Titi Freak from Brazil, Peeta from Italy and Vancouver’s own Indigo. For seven days, these artists will take a blank wall and turn it into their own personal canvas, creating a piece of art that will change the Vancouver landscape and open discourse for what faith, spirituality and art is really about.
To learn more about the artists and Paint Your Faith Vancouver, visit us at www.paintyourfaith.com or click on the image.
In an effort to celebrate Paint Your Faith Vancouver and reward your continued support, we’re giving away four print on canvases created exclusively by each of our featured artists.
All you have to do is register on wondercafe.ca then head over to the PYF blog to start providing your personal commentary about spirituality, faith, art, the Paint Your Faith initiative or whatever that is on your mind. By doing so, you automatically qualify for a chance to win one of four exclusive print canvas.
The more your comment and the more you share with friends and family, the more you increase your chances of bringing home a unique piece of art. Click here for the contest rules.
The inspiration doesn’t end there. In collaboration with our artists, we have designed one-of-a-kind items centered on their works and made them available for purchase. From 54”x54” canvases to t-shirts to skate decks, there is something in there for everyone. So make sure to stop by the Paint Your Faith store while browsing the website.
A portion of the revenue from these items goes in aiding the artists in continuing their artistic aspirations, while the remainder supports
exciting initiatives from The United Church of Canada such as Paint Your Faith.
