Natural Connections: Integrating Art and Faith
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 100
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 100
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In Natural Connections, sculptor and professor William Catling shares thoughts on the way art and faith have a natural bond, a connection that spans across time and space. This collection of insights and observations invites readers to see how artists and creatives think and operate in the world for good.
Through years of insights and a lens shaped by his art and teaching, Catling explores the call to be artists and offers help in living out the artistic life. A mentor to countless artists, his writings challenge and offer a guide to navigating the artist's life with creativity, faith, and wonder.
Chapter 1 Am I an Artist?
Chapter 2 Does God care about Artists?
Chapter 3 Is It Good Enough?
Chapter 4 Is Being an Artist Selfish?
Chapter 5 Is it Too Dark?
Chapter 6 How Much Light?
Chapter 7 But I Am a Mess!
Chapter 8 What Makes It Special?
Chapter 9 So, What Do I Make?
Chapter 10 How Does This Work?
With an art and educational career spanning over 40 years, William Catling's professional practices began in the San Francisco Bay Area until he relocated to the Los Angeles area in 1991, where he continues to reside. He is an active conference speaker and deeply involved in the integration of the arts into the larger community. A dynamic sculptor, Catling’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally. His works can be viewed at williamcatling.com
“Catling’s wonderfully down-to-earth works expand our capacity to understand that our bodies are vehicles for understanding—not merely tools for physical transport, but occasions for journeys that take us far beyond the literal distances we actually travel, into dimensions commonly referred to as internal, subjective, poetic, existential, or spiritual.”
Los Angeles Art Critic-David Pagel
In Natural Connections, sculptor and professor William Catling shares thoughts on the way art and faith have a natural bond, a connection that spans across time and space. This collection of insights and observations invites readers to see how artists and creatives think and operate in the world for good.
Through years of insights and a lens shaped by his art and teaching, Catling explores the call to be artists and offers help in living out the artistic life. A mentor to countless artists, his writings challenge and offer a guide to navigating the artist's life with creativity, faith, and wonder.
Chapter 1 Am I an Artist?
Chapter 2 Does God care about Artists?
Chapter 3 Is It Good Enough?
Chapter 4 Is Being an Artist Selfish?
Chapter 5 Is it Too Dark?
Chapter 6 How Much Light?
Chapter 7 But I Am a Mess!
Chapter 8 What Makes It Special?
Chapter 9 So, What Do I Make?
Chapter 10 How Does This Work?
With an art and educational career spanning over 40 years, William Catling's professional practices began in the San Francisco Bay Area until he relocated to the Los Angeles area in 1991, where he continues to reside. He is an active conference speaker and deeply involved in the integration of the arts into the larger community. A dynamic sculptor, Catling’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries both nationally and internationally. His works can be viewed at williamcatling.com
“Catling’s wonderfully down-to-earth works expand our capacity to understand that our bodies are vehicles for understanding—not merely tools for physical transport, but occasions for journeys that take us far beyond the literal distances we actually travel, into dimensions commonly referred to as internal, subjective, poetic, existential, or spiritual.”
Los Angeles Art Critic-David Pagel