Greensburg, Pa., Apr 13, 2018 / 02:01 am
A Catholic liberal arts college in Pennsylvania is hosting its seventh biennial Catholic Arts Competition and Exhibition to move artists and buyers towards diverse, original, and beautiful Christian art.
Originating in 2001, the competition at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., about 10 miles northeast of Greensburg, was founded by one of the school's late monks and teachers, Brother Nathan Cochran, who was also the curator and director of the St Vincent Gallery. The college is operated by the Benedictines of Saint Vincent Archabbey.
Jordan Hainsey, the exhibition manager and a seminarian for the Diocese of Covington, told CNA that a major focus of the exhibition is to give priests and the laity an option to commission religious art through means other than a catalogue.
"There are these talented artists that pastors of parishes [and] people who just want to commission a painting for devotion don't have to go to a catalogue," he said. "There is all of these artists who are looking to create new and original expressions of art of the faith, and they are just waiting to be commissioned."