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The Civic Duty of Arts Patronage
The Church today often struggles to engage in and support the arts, but such has not always been the case. Historically, the Christian church appreciated the arts and took seriously the role they could play in displaying truth and beauty in culture. As a philanthropist and patron of fine art, Ahmanson helps cast a vision for how the church can reclaim its civic duty of arts patronage.
Roberta Green Ahmanson is a writer who focuses on the relationships between art, religion, and culture. Chair of the board of the Museum of Biblical Art in New York, Ahmanson and her husband, Howard, have also sponsored several major international art exhibitions, the most recent being “The Sacred Made Real” at the National Galleries in London and Washington, D.C. An award-winning religion reporter, Ahmanson contributed to Oxford University Press’s acclaimed 2008 book, Blind Spot: When Journalists Don’t Get Religion.
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