When I teach students to look at art, the first question I ask them is “what is it?” By this, I do not mean "what do you think you see?" but "what do you actually see?" - Sarah Awad, “Art Identity: Christian. Artist. Stranger.” In Faithful is Successful. Sarah Awad is writing about art here, and her words are deeply relevant to Christian artists. But at the risk of wresting her words out of their context, I think there's something academics outside the arts can learn from her reflections on how professional artists … [Read more...] about Learning to See (Scholar’s Compass)