12 Months: A Faith to Freedom Story

THE ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By TAHLIB

It took engagement with followers of Buddha, Mary, Muhammad, Krishna, Eve and many others to turn me to the task of building the Alpha & Omega Project for Contemporary Religious Arts. The people listed below are those I wish to thank for their special help and encouragement. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to tell this story. Leslie Kreines and Angela Corley who gifted me with my first works of religious art....And my husband Gregory and mother Vernieda who pushed me forward when I had doubts we could really succeed. This is a spiritual journey that began as an escape from with injustice.

• CHAPTER 1 Remembering Good Fridays: "Never wound a snake; kill it."
• CHAPTER 2 From Faith to Freedom: "Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through."
• CHAPTER 3 My Introduction to Religious Art: "I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
• CHAPTER 4 A Lenton Journey: "Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."
• CHAPTER 5 The Promise of Religious Art: "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."
• CHAPTER 6 Leading by Collecting: "I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me."
• CHAPTER 7 Inspiring Artists to be the very best: "If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more." 
• CHAPTER 8 Leaving a Legacy: "I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger."
• CHAPTER 9 Organizations Moving Religious Art Forward: "Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time."
• CHAPTER 10 New Artists, New Directions: "You'll be free or die!"
• CHAPTER 11 Celebrating Easter: "I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."

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