Holy Week Youth Project

Two essential values of Redeemer Community Arts are growth and mentorship. Creativity is a generative process, and this project was an opportunity to partner with young artists to create something new, images that would speak to the complexity and richness of the experience of Holy Week. These pieces were a product of the work of seasoned artists working alongside three young men. There was food, laughter, conversation, and collaboration and the result was a deeper connection and shared experience.

Palm Sunday
Collaborative art by Bear Vickery and Elijah Norman
Digital image (ink in paper)

On Palm Sunday we remember Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. The crowd celebrates him as a king, one who will vindicate them and release them from their oppressors. For Jesus, he enters knowing the lonely road and ultimate test ahead, one that will require him to empty himself completely.

Good Friday
Collaborative art by Gabriel Franklin and Kateri Gill
Digital image (ink on paper)

Good Friday is a day that recalls the passion (suffering) of Jesus. His eyes were set on the Father. The darkness of the skies and the quaking of the earth ensured none could ignore these moments. The eyes of all were trained on Jesus. Those who mocked him and beat him. The eyes of the women who know knew and loved him, who beheld him with blurred, tear streak vision. Those of the centurion and the thieves. The eyes of those who disbelieved. Eyes of those, like the Israelites beholding the snake lifted up on the pole, believed and were healed. And not only of those bound in the space and time of this good Friday, but those persecuted believers who would later lose their lives confessing their allegiance to this suffering servant, eyes fixed on Jesus as they perished by stoning, by fire, by the sword. We are beckoned to consider where are our own eyes are fixed on this day of salvation.

Easter Sunday
Collaborative art by Elijah Norman and Peter Davis
Digital image (ink on paper)

On the glorious day of Easter, we celebrate our great rescue. God’s covenant with his people is fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus. Peace will be restored between him and all of creation. As Noah and his family were rescued from the watery chaos of the flood, so are his people rescued from their sin. This rescue reverberates through all of creation; a restored creation and a kingdom come.