About Me
GREETINGS FROM NEVADA
and thanks for visiting ArtScienceFaith!
This website features the digital images and words of your most reverential Michael Ulrych, that person being particularly and specifically myself. I started digital rendering as a hobby back in 2006. At that time, I was running the projector at church and wanted to update the backgrounds we used during announcements and worship. It started off with simple backgrounds with lyrics. Soon I began getting more creative with verse art. Presenting God’s word as a single verse on a still image, during and after church service. In time, this struck me as something I should treat as a formal ministry to those in attendance. I was motivated by this verse from Isaiah:
“so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth;
it shall not return to me empty,
but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
– Isaiah 55:11
This verse says to me that God’s Word goes forth from Him and permeates His creation. God’s living Word interacts with the living world, and merges with it to perform some divine purpose. A purpose of God’s invention, that could only be realized by having God’s all-powerful Word collide with His own massive universe. I want to know more about this God and be apart of this “great collision”.
POWER TO CHANGE LIVES
God’s Word carries within it the power to change lives. Therefore, I have always been careful to present it in a dignified manner. Asking God to bless my efforts, as I come along side the work He is already doing in the lives of people everywhere. Asking Him to use what I do for their good and His glory.
I am most passionate about capturing theology in graphical form. My intent is not to derive new meanings from scripture but to honor God’s timeless message. By combining art and theology, one must become a student of both. I should share with you who has most profoundly influenced my understanding of Biblical truth.
I am a very fond of anything by Verse by Verse Ministries and Ariel Ministries in San Antonio, Texas. I love many of the writings of C.S Lewis and Brennan Manning. John MacArthur has so much searchable material that I almost always consider his view in whatever I am studying. James White has been most instructive for me in so many ways, I thank God for Alpha Omega Ministries. Dr. Michael Brown and I differ on some doctrinal matters but He has wisdom and love for everyone as well as being a top notch Hebrew expert and formidable debater.
I would like to mention some of my artistic endeavors over the years. My first art show was in Gardnerville, Nevada in 2014, where I won second place for an image depicting Minden, Nevada several thousand years ago. Since then, I have been in many shows and galleries. In 2016, I received a Nevada Arts Council grant to create several images of northern Nevada back when an exceptionally large lake dominated the region. Most people don’t know this, but northern Nevada was underwater several thousand years ago. The lake was named Ancient Lake Lahontan and it left caves, beaches, and gravel deposits all over northern Nevada as proof. I rendered these images and organized an art exhibition to present them to the public. Later they were displayed in the Nevada State Legislature. Starting in 2015 an image and poem of mine entitled “The Lost at Sea” toured the U.S. for three years in a travelling art exhibit for CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts). Lastly, this last summer I was invited to submit pieces to Taylor University’s Metcalf Gallery for a digital art show entitled “Ars Machina.”
I live in Carson City, Nevada with my wife and three cats. We have two daughters, both who have left the nest to blaze their own trail in the world. I have recently shed several other hobbies and interests in order to focus on ArtScienceFaith.
This website and everything in it are a labor of love, I hope you can sense my extra effort.