First Solo Art Show!
My first solo art show launches on November 7th with a gallery talk at the intermission for the ART & SOUL Cafe’s Open Mic Night. The show runs each Saturday (excluding Thanksgiving and Christmas weekends) in November and December.
St Paul’s United Methodist Church, Mountville, PA (near Lancaster)
This show features work reflecting biblical themes “Comfort & Joy” and features mixed med…
Children's Painting Party and Art Auction
This Advent several of our local churches got together to make art to help our neighbor. My church hosted a painting party and children and youth were invited to create art based on biblical texts. Each child was given a canvas and told to reflect on one of the passages. Every painting was different and wonderful.
The silent auction was held on Thanksgiving Eve prior to a community serv…
Art and Prayer Day
Yesterday I spent the day immersed in art and prayer with 8 other people. I’ve done 12 to 24 hour prayerathons before, but these have always been relatively solitary events as far as art-making is concerned.
This event arose out of a desire to get folks to be deliberate about their art. Somehow art falls to the bottom of the “to-do” pile for many of us.
Part of the day included a coll…
The Glen Workshop
I just spent the week at the Glen Workshop at St. John’s College in Santa Fe. This annual event is put on by Image Journal and sponsored by CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts). Basically, this is a opportunity for arists of faith to get together for lectures, worship, fellowship and workshop time. The workshops included songwriting, fiction, poetry, figure drawing, and mixed media/assemblag…
Artscape 2008
I went to Artscape yesterday. It was one hundred and four degrees. The best acquision of the day was a cardboard fan with the words “Gospel Music Fan” written on it.
I find that when I go to events like these with booth upon booth featuring the work of artists, I am drawn to the artists who have done something innovative with materials. My two favorites were a woman who mixed embroidery…
collaborative artmaking
I love collaborative artwork, though I haven’t made room for much of it in my adult life. As children, my sister would share a single piece of typewriter paper and armed with magic markers would draw together. Usually we would create a classroom. I noticed that she would quickly fill in row upon row of students while I was happily immersed in the details of my first student. Sadly, not one …
Art, Prayer and Inspiration
I spend several days a year in times of intensive prayer. These events I have dubbed prayerathons. Over the course of time they have turned from 24 hour prayer only events where I lit candles every half hour and prayed through the night and into the morning and dozed off somewhere between two and six to twelve hour art and prayer events.
I have both set out with a project in mind (the firs…
About Connecting With Other Artists
There is something inspiring and and intimidating about joining a site dedicated to visual artists. I quickly added three photographs just to see how the site worked and was quite impressed when I did a search of church windows.
I know several things: I need a better camera (or to take advantage of the relationship I have with a few photographers). I enjoy fleshing out the boundaries of m…