Hunter Jc. Dickens Email & Phone Number

I work with any parish to address all of their liturgical design needs, from preparing a full beautification project to finding a sacred artist for a single commision. Having also developed prayer spaces for national events and organized sacred arts exhibits and courses, my work has lead me to build community, resources, and opportunities for Catholic artists. Pope Benedict XVI said, “The Way of Beauty seems to be a privileged itinerary to get in touch with many of those who face great difficulties in receiving the Church's teachings, particularly regarding morals. Too often in recent years, the truth has been instrumentalised by ideologies, and the good horizontalised into a merely social act as though charity towards neighbour alone sufficed without being rooted in love of God. Relativism, which finds one of its clearest expressions in the pensiero debole (weak thought), continues to spread, encouraging a climate of miscomprehension, and making real, serious and reasoned encounters rare.” This need is why Saint John Paul II continues in his letter to artists, “In order to communicate the message entrusted to her by Christ, the Church needs art. Art must make perceptible, and as far as possible attractive, the world of the spirit, of the invisible, of God. It must therefore translate into meaningful terms that which is in itself ineffable. Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colours, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look or listen. It does so without emptying the message itself of its transcendent value and its aura of mystery.” So art is the “privileged pathway” for dialogue, and sacred art, which most directly shares the heavenly mystery, is the highest of all arts.

Listed skills include Computer Aided Design, 3D Printing, Teamwork, Scripting, and 2 others.

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  University Of Kentucky

  Mechanical Engineering