February 2021: New Direction Church is one of many organizations that has received Lilly Endowment grants to support their efforts to help people who are most deeply affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Through a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship, Vance Farrow - a professor at Herron School of Art & Design - traveled to China, taking time to recharge and focus on himself and his art.

“I thought I was going to come back full of ideas. Instead, I came back empty, my mind cleared of the clutter and ready for God to fill me back up.”

Through a Teacher Creativity fellowship, in 2017, Andy Brubaker, a biology teacher at Goshen High School set out with a friend to conquer the Colorado Trail on bike, traveling for 13 days through the wilderness.

It takes an artist to make us see, not the bewildering details of the world around us, but the great universals that give significance to our human experiences. Learn from the artist to see the daring…