Anawim Arts
“Anawim Arts offers art at the intersection of art and spirituality. Our purpose is to encourage people to discover and express their inner artist.”
Our missions:
Many of our sisters are creative. They have set up an arts as well as a music network to exchange and make their creativity available for many.
The arts and music network started within the Loreto branch of our congregation. Artists, photographers, musicians and writers from across the Institute met in Toronto in May 2019.
Following this meeting a steering group, Arlene Ashack, initiated further exploration of a formal arts and music ministry and have developed a truly international response.
Since 2020, the Arts Ministry was incorporated into the Anawim Arts in Chicago which offers online events and an art gallery with featured artists and yearly art shows.
The recently formed Mary Ward Musicians’ Network (MWMN) is currently made up of members from Africa, Australia, India, Slovakia and South Korea. The group is chaired by Deirdre Browne.
Companionship and a mentored space to workshop various creative ideas have been the gifts of this year. Members are often working in isolated places without access to a larger artistic community so value the opportunity to come together to share and discuss creative work and to experience different ways of evangelizing through the performing arts.
Our Mary Ward Musicians’ Network meet monthly online.
