The Lindsay Gallery of Columbus Ohio will be featuring a few of the Rev. Phillips' Pentecostal Charts at the Artropolis event in Chicago April 25th to 28th, 2008 at the Merchandise Mart of Chicago IL. Look for the Intuit Show of Folks & Outsider Art. www.lindsaygallery.com

Rev. Samuel David Phillips was an ordained Pentecostal Pastor who was born in Georgia and settled in Chicago during the early part of the 20th century. He is a pioneer of creating images to express the Bible from a Pentecostal perspective. This point of view was fundamental, fresh, and insightful, yet new in the Christian world at that time. He used an visionary interdisciplinary approach by combining spoken word, the Bible, hand written words, and drawn images to reach people. These details show how Rev. Phillips would write Biblical references directly on the charts to link the image to passages in the Bible for purposes of study or meditation. In the photo above Rev. Phillips is leading a study session with a few Elders from the old Progressive Pentecostal Mission explaining an unfinished chart along with a few completed ones. The Mission was located in the traditional Bronzeveille area of Chicago during the 1940s until the mid 1960s.

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Selected charts are available for study, meditation, or collecting via onli@sbcglobal.net