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Cross found in cracked sidewalk. Photo to be used in Phone Pix Liturgy Project
Cross found in cracked sidewalk. Photo to be used in Phone Pix Liturgy Project

During Sept. 21 – 28, as part of the Festival of Arts in West Central, Pastor Eric Blauer of Jacob's Well Church will be hosting the Phone Pix Urban Liturgy Art Project and is seeking submissions.

“The Phone Pix ‘Urban Liturgy” Art Project is an outgrowth of my last six years of living on mission as a church planter, family man, artist and urban vagabond in East Central Spokane,” he said. 

He's looking specifically for photos taken anywhere in Spokane “where you have discovered beauty in unlikely places.”

“This art project is designed to capture, cultivate and celebrate the beautiful in our tougher neighborhoods. So snap some pictures, Instagram them or send them to me and I will gather them all up for the art show and let every visitor see these neighborhoods through new eyes,” Blauer said. “As someone who seeks to discover, cultivate and celebrate beauty in a community where ugliness is often the result of poverty, addiction, dysfunction and crime, art is a sacred tool in remembering and telling better stories.”

Photos can ben sent to him at fcb4@mac.com or through Instagram at #urbanliturgypix.

https://favs.news/blogs/eric-blauerEric Blauer is a SpokaneFAVS blogger.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
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Eric Blauer
Eric Blauer
13 years ago

You can search #urbanliturgypix on Instagram to see the 50+ submissions so far.

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Sam Fletcher
Sam Fletcher
13 years ago

Very cool! I’ll pull out Instagram and see what I can do.

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