Christa Wells

It’s obvious she has the bug.  She is 6 and can’t keep from it.   Small brown fingers push the sound from the ivory and I watch her do what I do. Play.  Evaluate.  Try a new way.  Repeat.  Build a pattern, wonder where it must go next. She is emotive.  Sometimes loud.  Often tragic (her [...]

I begin by seeing (I’m a visual learner).  Feeling waves roll in, scales fall, the earth shift slightly underfoot…how have I lived this long and not known this? A secret overlay becomes visible and wheels turn…scaffolding is erected on the interior walls of the mind, frames hung, phrases chalked alongside, and I start the climb… [...]

(This was originally a “page” on my former blog…since I don’t yet have a place for it in this new blog format, I thought I’d share it again as a “post.”) I’m sure I have it documented somewhere, maybe on a piece of notebook paper, but I can’t recall it.  I do know it was [...]

“You don’t HAVE to do anything, but you CAN do a lot of things.” She was 16-years-old and said it with a comical grin, referring to my dilemma over whether or not to feel obligated to patch a small hole in my skirt.  She’s a free spirit. I have never been as free as I [...]

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Join us at Wheaton Bible Church on April 17 to find out about Masterpiece Project, a uniquely intimate setting for young artists to explore issues of art and faith and build mentoring and peer relationships. (And have fun, of course!) masterpiece promo from David Vosburg on Vimeo.   Masterpiece is incredibly close to my heart.  I [...]

My musical interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer, written in 2008, shared for meditation this Good Friday.

  Masterpiece is incredibly close to my heart.  I was once a very lonely teenager, despite being in the middle of a large and loving family. Although I didn't yet identify myself as being an "artist," I didn't identify with other established groups at school, either. I didn't play a sport and was pretty shy–didn't volunteer [...]

Yesterday I shared a brand-spanking new song with our church body, Christ Our Hope.  It's called "Everything Moves But You"–I had written about the elusive quality of our dreams and all the things we want more of.  Later in the afternoon, I drove to Durham and had the extreme pleasure of making music with Wade [...]

Masterpiece Project…two camp sessions offered in summer 2010…a uniquely intimate setting for young artists to explore issues of art and faith and build mentoring and peer relationships. Last year's theme: Flow. This year: Frame the Clouds. (hmmm, where have we heard that before?) Check it out! masterpiece promo from David Vosburg on Vimeo.