Looking For A New Image

For a $2,000 prize and a place on the millennium-issue cover of the newsweekly National Catholic Reporter, artists worldwide are being invited to create a bold new image of Jesus to mark the 2,000th anniversary of his birth. All visual media computer art, stained glass, silk-screen prints, photographs, etc. are welcome. Entrants must send slides of their work by Oct. 18, and the winner and three runners-up will be chosen by Sister Wendy Beckett, the 69-year-old British nun who stars in a public TV series about art. The contest arose from Reporter editor Michael Farrell’s frustration over the buildup to the new millennium. “Ask anybody about the millennium, and they talk about survivalists going into the mountains or glitches on their computers,” he said. “Nobody is talking about this extraordinary man who came from heaven 2000 years ago.”