Links to a Small Selection of Currently-Practicing Creative Artists
having a spiritual outlook and/or who take a Global Approach in their work
ARCHITECTS
www.sahbaarchitect.com Fariborz Sahba, architect of the Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, and the Bahá'í House of Worship in India, popularly known as the Lotus Temple.
www.amanatarchitect.com Hussein Amanat, architect of the Seat of the Universal House of Justice; the Bahá'í House of Worship in Apia, Western Samoa; the Shahyad Freedom Monument in Tehran, and numerous other works.
www.hariripontarini.com Siamak Hariri and David Pontarini, based in Canada, architects of the Bahá'í House of Worship to be built in Chile, and numerous other works.
www.oneworldarchitecture.com Ken Parel-Sewell and Jessica Tennill, architects specializing in planning and design of Bahá'í Community Centers.
COMPOSERS, SONGWRITERS, MUSIC PRODUCERS
www.yo-yoma.com Yo-Yo Ma, renowned cellist and artistic director of the Silk Road project. Yo-Yo takes a "Global Approach" to music, viewing it with a world-embracing perspective. His approach, while not connected with a particular faith, shares with the Baha'i outlook an ability to see humanity as a whole, with all its diversified parts inter-related as in a living organism. One of his main goals is "the exploration of music as a means of communication, and as a vehicle for the migrations of ideas, across a range of cultures throughout the world."
www.lassethoresen.com A composer highly regarded in Europe and world wide, Lasse Thoresen is a professor of composition in the Norwegian State Academy of Music. His music has received numerous international awards.
www.allegro-vivo.at Bijan Khadem-Missagh, distinguished conductor, violinist, composer and founder of "Allegro Vivo," Lower Austria's most traditional summer music festival.
Matthew Levine Matthew Levine, award-winning composer and producer, embraces a variety of styles, including classical, jazz, and pop, in his compositions.
www.insigniarecords.com Insignia Records is the home for inspirational world music artists: Grammy award-winning KC Porter from Guatemala/USA, Leonor Dely from Colombia, Lin Cheng from China, and Adriana ...
www.liveunity.com Live Unity Enterprises, founded by acclaimed composer and producer Jack Lenz. This web site lists an impressive catalogue of musicians and artists, including 'cellist, composer, and improviser Gwendolyn Watson, whose music draws on and synthesizes inspirations from a wide variety of sources.
http://www.tierneysutton.com Tierney Sutton has won widespread acclaim as a jazz singer who re-creates and revitalizes many classics of jazz, through a fertile creative process involving consultation and co-creation with members of her band.
www.farzadmusic.com A classically-trained violinist, Farzad creates, performs, and blends together music from a variety of cultural sources. His CD, "Mirror of Emotions," rocketed to the No. 1 position in the NAV radio Top 100
www.amityrecords.com Founded by Todd Khozein, Amity Records’ featured artists are Farzad and the group MimosA
www.divinenotes.com An on-line store featuring Bahá'í-inspired music of over 100 artists.
PAINTERS AND GRAPHIC ARTISTS
www.galleryjones.com/Otto_Rogers_bio.html Otto Donald Rogers, one of Canada's senior abstract painters, whose deeply spiritual art reflects a compassionate and insightful nature. His work is included in nearly every major collection in the country.
www.jalaliyyihquinn.com Jalaliyyih Quinn, an internationally recognized painter whose work captures spiritual realities and processes on canvas. Of her creations she writes, "Ideas of the unity of all life do permeate my paintings... I choose to paint not the panorama of destruction but the Fundamental Unity underlying our Life."
nafahub.com/nanyi/enanyi/eseasia/efineart/foohongtatt/edefault_01.htm Foo Hong Tatt, a semi-abstract landscape painter, whose main aim is "to bring happiness and serenity to every viewer… to elevate their hearts and souls to the spiritual plane." Foo Hong blends artistic ideals of East and West in his work.
www.southernhighlandguild.org/calligraphy Michael Hughey, founder of Twin Dolphin Design, specializes in calligraphy, typography, design, & illustration. His published work "reflects an appreciation of the universality of spiritual virtues, the unity & brotherhood of mankind, a fondness for life, letters, and language, and a distinct value in the diverse expression of common truth and wisdom from the myriad cultures of our beautiful & fragile planet."
www.hifafarah.com Hifa Farah, a graphic artist who works in textiles, prints, and illumination. In her view, art is "an instrument to play the song of harmony, love and unity in diversity."
www.bahaibanners.com Jodell Babbitt Sprague creates fabric wall hangings in a variety of styles, absorbing influences from Africa, the Middle East, South America, and other regions of the world.
POETS, PLAYWRIGHTS, FICTION WRITERS
www.bahaibookstore.com/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=6868 John S. Hatcher is the author of the collection of poetry A Sense of History, and numerous works studying the nature of the revealed Word and mysteries hidden in the fabric of creation.
www.dramacircle.org Mark Perry is the author of A New Dress for Mona and numerous other dramatic works. His web site brings together dramatic pieces representing a range of cultural perspectives, and serves to encourage the development of the art of theatre.
www.bahaibookstore.com/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=6803 Michael Fitzgerald is the author of many books of poetry, non-fiction, and children's literature, for which he has won several awards.
www.bahaibookstore.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=5547 J. D. Albert is the author of Touchstone of Sincerity, a moving and insight-filled novel that explores the spiritual landscape of faith and sacrifice.