About
An echo that happens more than once is called a re-echo, which extends and relocates the originating sound across a given space. As re-echoes multiply, they give way to resonance, and resonance eventually gives way to an acoustic. An acoustic is a new space altogether, an inhabitable sonic architecture—dimensioned, enveloping, and distinct.
Re:Echo Arts seeks to establish these new spaces for artist and audience alike—spaces in which to work, thrive, consider and explore—by cultivating resonance across communities and extending understanding and imagination.
Re:Echo began as a group of professional artists and friends committed to a creative praxis informed by our daily and spiritual life together, and to the holistic flourishing of all artists, the church, Philadelphia, and the world in and through our creative work. This vision has led to 20 years’ worth of art works created across disciplines, both in our faith community of Resurrection Philadelphia and beyond. Since 2025, Re:Echo’s mission has broadened to include a commitment to providing resources and support that help creative ideas become realized work. We seek to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration between artists and nonprofits, academics, ecumenical organizations, universities, and local communities, for the public good.
Our 2026 project, The Aesthetics of Shalom, is a year-long multi-disciplinary response to the increasing antipathy and divisiveness fracturing ourselves and our world: an extended meditation on shalom—the flourishing, wholeness, and peace of and in God—involving art-making, group study, conversation, hospitality, and friendship. It is a project designed to foster robust, nuanced dialogue; to cultivate generous, durable habits of patience and mercy; and to help us recover concern for our neighbor.
The Aesthetics of Shalom is supported by Resurrection Philadelphia, the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, and the Creative Arts Collective for Christian Life & Faith.
Joshua
Stamper
Director
Joshua Stamper is a transdisciplinary artist and composer whose work explores hiddenness, revelation, ephemera, and archive.
He has worked as an orchestral arranger, studio conductor, and session musician for Columbia / Sony BMG and Concord Records, Lionsgate Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Legendary Entertainment, and for independent labels Domino, Dead Oceans, Important Records, and Smalltown Supersound.
He has received fellowships from MacDowell, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Speranza Foundation, the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation. Joshua’s work has been supported by the American Composers Forum, the NewAm Composers Lab, the Lilly Endowment, the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, the Eric Stokes Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Viola
Bordon
Director
Viola Bordon is our fine art curator and a visual artist who primarily works with fiber. She is based in Philadelphia, and examines transformation across material, ecological, and social systems. Raised in South India as the child of missionaries, she approaches land and material as sites shaped by belief and power. Her practice includes quilting and environmental installations, drawing on methods of reuse, endurance, and collaboration. Through projects supported by the Fulbright Commission and work with community-based organizations, she explores how cycles of making mirror broader ecological and political change. Bordon’s teaching and research emphasize tactile knowledge and the quiet radicality of sustained attention to material and processes. She has an MFA from UPenn and has shown at the Museum for Art in Wood, The Clay Studio, Taragaon Museum, and Serendipity Festival. Her dog is named Tchotchke.
Christopher
McDonald
The Divine Dark – Producer
Christopher McDonald is a music creator and a capturer/manipulator of sound and light. He is a founding member of the quiet-core band Cuddle Magic and has collaborated with many artists and organizations in an effort to bring more beauty into the world. Christopher runs a recording studio and production company and serves as the Director of Worship Arts and Technology at Resurrection Philadelphia. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Germantown.
Catherine
Ricketts
Re:Echo Journal – Editor-in-chief
Catherine Ricketts is an essayist, songwriter, and writing instructor. Her nonfiction on the arts, grief, joy, and spirituality appears in the Kenyon Review Online, Ploughshares, Electric Literature, The Christian Century, Image, Comment, The Millions, and elsewhere. She studied writing at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MFA in nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, now Whitworth Writers Workshop. Her first book is The Mother Artist, a work of literary nonfiction on motherhood and artistic practice. Catherine is a director in the Honors Program at Villanova University and lives with her family near Philadelphia.
Kory
Stamper
Re:Echo Journal – Managing Editor
Kory Stamper has been a professional editor for over 25 years and has edited works for small journals and large publishing houses. She is currently a freelance copyeditor and proofreader with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where she works on nonfiction and fiction in translation. Kory is also the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries and True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink. She roasts her own coffee.
Janelle
Delia
Director of Communication
Janelle is a multimedia artist specializing in graphic design and cinematography, drawn to stories that sit at the intersection of music, community, and social change. Her video work includes Storming (forthcoming on Independent Lens), PBS docuseries Getting Off the Streets, Live on KEXP, and At: Guitar Center. Her illustration and design work spans the full breadth of human endeavor — from global NGOs to Trader Joe’s. She is currently Art Director and Graphic Designer at inquisitive Magazine by Heterodox Academy — where she wrangles esoteric ideas into well-behaved visuals. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and two children, and can usually be found reading, daydreaming and staring at the sky.
Cyndi
Parker
Education Advisor
Cyndi Parker is a speaker, writer, scholar, and pastor. She is the creator of Narrative of Place, the host of the Context Matters podcast, and the author of Encountering Jesus in the Real World of the Gospels. At the core of many of her projects is the desire to help people learn to read the Land of the Bible. When she is not teaching, Cyndi loves to hike in the woods, and she is known to say yes to anything that gives her a shot of adrenaline.
Sarah
Long
Content Coordinator
Sarah Long is a musician, songwriter, and music therapist based out of Philadelphia. She serves as Content Coordinator, where she manages digital communication and social media. She has released music under her own name and has collaborated with ensembles such as i’mechoes and Vistablue, while continuing work on new projects. Her favorite mornings are in the sunshine listening to the birds with a coffee in her hand.
Tom
Rose
Web Developer
Tom Rose is a freelance web developer based in Philadelphia with over 20 years of experience helping organizations establish a web presence. He has worked with TED, MLB, Wharton, and Comcast as well as individual designers and creatives. Outside of web projects, he enjoys exploring Philadelphia with his wife and son, baking sourdough bread, and watching baseball.