Community Arts for God's Purposes [Portuguese] (Artes da Comunidade para os Propósitos de Deus)

Authors

• Brian Schrag
  Brian Schrag

  Brian Schrag is a Senior Arts Consultant with SIL International. He was SIL's ethnomusicology and arts coordinator from 2006-2019, and founded the Center for Excellence in World Arts at Dallas International University, where he serves as adjunct professor. 
  Brian has worked as a linguist, Bible translator, ethnomusicologist and community arts consultant in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon, and holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology (University of California, Los Angeles), an MA in Intercultural Studies (Wheaton College), and a BS in Cognitive Science (Brown University). Brian was vice president of Training and Education on the board of the International Council of Ethnodoxologists (ICE) from 2006-2019, and has been an active member of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) and the International Council of Traditional Music (ICTM) for many years. He writes and presents on such topics as ethnoarts endangerment and revitalization, music criticism, applied ethnomusicology, Central African music, intersections of faith and scholarship, communication theory, and research as love. Brian has performed and recorded albums with Malian artist Cheick Tidiane Seck, Malawian musician Donald Kachamba, and Christian world music band Izibongo. Brian’s life purpose is to enact truth through music, words, and human organization in ways that open profound conversations with God, and to help others do the same. He encourages more people to create more things for more purposes in their communities, and tries to model this in his own life. He thus composes and performs songs for his family, weddings, funerals, anniversaries, and romantic and bluesy occasions. 
  Brian is active in the Huntington’s Disease Society of America, drawing on the arts’ power to spark hope and healing by connecting artists and sufferers of this illness. Brian also integrates off-kilter wit into many of his activities. He loves his wife, Barb, and children Mindy, Austin, and Lydia. 
  

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• Julisa Rowe
  Julisa Rowe

  Julisa Rowe has degrees in drama (BA), intercultural ministries (MA), and ethnodramatology (DMiss). She is an international consultant, trainer, performer, and director, serving as the Kenya director for ACT International, a missions organization for artists. Julisa has performed, sung, and directed professionally and for community and church events worldwide for over thirty years. She has written several peer-reviewed articles on ethnodramatology and a book on dramatic reading. Julisa currently lives and works in Kenya.

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