whats the low down on the local Christian artists scene?
Lucilla : The way I see it is this: for a long time artists have been roughly divided between those who worked in the secular world and those who were purely involved in churches. While the former group were just doing the things like that of any creative arts person, they blended in so well that they did not see themselves distinct from their peers. For a lot of us, it was very hard to make that distinction [as Christians in the world]. On the other hand from the second group, there came a sort of movement with ‘All Good Gifts’ ministry where a couple of them came together contemplated if there was something to be done about mentoring and guiding. However the timing was too early and the creative arts in churches were not too developed yet.Honestly, I think that what often impacts the secular scene will impact the church scene. In the general arts industry, it wasn’t till the mid eighties when things started to get professional and people actually started thinking of doing arts for a
