The Gallery at Make Studio
In the Gallery at Make Studio:
Ben Lansing
November 22nd, 2024-January 3rd, 2025
Opening Reception: 6-8 PM Thursday, December 5th
5200 Grove Ave.,
Richmond, VA 23226
(Inside St. Giles)
About Ben Lansing
Ben Lansing is an artist and author from Richmond, Virginia. His award-winning art has appeared in hundreds of American publications over the past two decades. His work has been featured in the Newseum in Washington D.C. and received multiple Best in Show awards from the Virginia Press Association. In 2007, in response to the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, Ben created Today, We Are All Hokies, an editorial illustration that received global attention. John Seigenthaler, Sr., founding editorial director of USA Today, nominated this image for a Pulitzer Prize in 2007. Ben is currently the cartoonist for Jeff MacNelly’s classic comic strip, Shoe.
Ben is an Anglican deacon and a lifelong student of the history of art and religion. He loves sharing the history of the global church through art and storytelling and regularly teaches church history at Redeemer Anglican Church in Richmond, Virginia. He lives in Richmond with his wife, Bethany, in a house full of books.
ourchurchspeaks.com | @ourchurchspeaks
About Our Church Speaks
Our Church Speaks is an illustration series featuring the words of Christians from around the globe, across traditions, and throughout the centuries. Each saint in this series is commemorated in the Book of Common Prayer. C.S. Lewis called for Christians to "keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds." Our Church Speaks aspires to open the perspective of modern Christians to this clean breeze of the witness of the historic church. Our Church Speaks is is an ongoing project, currently at over 250 portraits, with new work every week. You can follow the latest entries on Instagram. Ben also writes a short biography or historical sketch for each post, with accompanying prayers and liturgies from the Book of Common Prayer. An Our Church Speaks book was published by Intervarsity Press in October, 2024. You can learn more about the book and this art series at www.ourchurchspeaks.com.
