Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity within You

by Rachel Marie Kang, Morgan Harper Nichols (Foreword by)

Overview

Perhaps in no other way do we more vibrantly reflect our creator than with our creativity. Whether through music, writing, baking, painting, posting on social media, dancing, or any other form of artistic expression within our grasp, we were created to create. Yet, there are times we may be unsure about our art, times when our creating and making doesn't feel possible or purposeful or practical.

Rachel Marie Kang wants you to know that your art is not peripheral to life—it is at the very heart of why you exist and what you have to offer to yourself and to the world. In Let There Be Art, she gives you permission to embrace the peace, pleasure, and purpose inherent in your art and in the process of making it. This passionate, creative, and cathartic journey invites you to create truthfully out of the broken and beautiful pieces of your life, as well as offer your heart and your art in hopes of helping a hurting world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800740863
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	240,708
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rachel Marie Kang is a New York native, born and raised just outside New York City. She is a writer of poems, prose, and other pieces, and she is the founder of Fallow Ink. A mixed woman of African American, Native American (Ramapough Lenape Nation), Irish, and Dutch descent, she is a graduate of Nyack College with a Bachelor of Arts in English with Creative Writing and a minor in Bible. Her writing has been featured by Christianity Today, Charlotte Magazine, and (in)courage. Rachel lives and writes just outside Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband and two children.

Table of Contents

Foreword Morgan Harper Nichols 11

Invitation: May Your Light Break Forth 13

1 Let There Be Bareness 21

2 Let There Be Goodness 32

3 Let There Be Likeness 41

4 Let There Be Courage 52

5 Let There Be Home 66

6 Let There Be Play 79

7 Let There Be Fairy Tales 90

8 Let There Be Tears 103

9 Let There Be Breath 116

10 Let There Be Movement 126

11 Let There Be Silence 138

12 Let There Be Thought 151

13 Let There Be Fellowship 161

14 Let There Be Remembrance 173

15 Let There Be Smallness 186

16 Let There Be Connection 196

17 Let There Be Laughter 207

18 Let There Be Light 216

Acknowledgments 226

Notes 230