The ECVA Board has planned the ECVA program using a focused approach to increased arts participation. This includes broadening participation in the visual arts in the church by involving more people and inviting them in through workshops, parish exhibitions, confrence presentations and published resources.

St Martin-in-the-Field
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Rev. Robert Tate, Rector
Photograph, 2004

Quoting Wuthnow again, One of the important contributions of artists in any period is creating narratives and images of wholeness in the face of undeniable brokenness. There is an ECVA artist whose work serves through the marking of a memory to a place that no longer exists.

Kharpert Armenia 1915
Mary Melikian Haynes
Oil, 36" x 48"

We know that art encourages the active engagement of people in the work of God in the world, and the art of Mary Melikian Haynes cries across diplomatic silence to remind us of the genocide in Armenia in 1915, 1916, and 1917.