Art Encounters at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church
CIVA - Christians in the Visual Arts
by Cat Bartels
1y ago
by Mary Jane Park and Gine White, St. Thomas’ Art Project co-chairs Opening reception of Heads, Faces, and Spiritual Encounter We were fortunate to have the CIVA exhibition Heads, Faces & Spiritual Encounter at St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church in St. Petersburg, Florida for several months. We made people aware of it in press releases, social-media posts, printed postcards and through our church newsletter and service bulletins. For the first couple of months, we took people through informally, and our parishioners at St. Thomas’ took time every Sunday before and after worship services to spen ..read more
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How do we promote good art in the churches? (Pipe-Smoking Women)
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by Cat Bartels
1y ago
by Beat Rink Was Picasso right? “I find it absurd when a woman who does not smoke a pipe paints one,” Picasso once said. Was he right? The answer is no and yes – both at once. Picasso was not right. Was he in Guernica on April 26, 1937? No! And yet he created a powerful artistic memorial to this town and its liquidation in the Civil War. As is well-known, artists do not have to experience personally the things about which they paint, write, or compose. Artists, for example, do not necessarily have to believe in God to create Christian art. But wait – maybe they do? As we see, it‘s already ..read more
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Life is Good – How I Noticed It!
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by Cat Bartels
1y ago
by Antonia Ruppert Within Nature Study I am not a Disney person. I do not get all syked up for historical tours. Nor do I get geeky for cruises. But an art retreat? Now you’re talking my language. Last week  – I went on an art retreat – saw some new things and some familiar things – in a new way. I am grateful to CIVA – Christians in the Visual Arts who sponsored the summer retreat. I learned how to notice again. Not to say I’d stopped noticing, but I’d become really comfortable in my routine of my art and work in the community. But this week, I noticed.  Creation is BEAUTI ..read more
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Objects of Remembrance
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by Cat Bartels
1y ago
by Linda T. Hurd The oil painting of a ship by E. Louis Vuilleumier hung in my home where I grew up. I heard the artist had died in Italy in World War II. When my father sold our house, the painting went to his new home on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. After my father’s death in 1990, I learned that the painting went to a woman with the same last name who lived on Cape Cod. My father had a Boston accent with some French influence too, so he had a special way of saying “Vuilleumier.” I wondered about the artist and how my father had gotten the painting as my father was also a veteran ..read more
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To Dwell Among Us
CIVA - Christians in the Visual Arts
by Cat Bartels
2y ago
by Catelyn Mailloux Latticework, colored pencil on vellum, 2021 A year and a half ago I began attending a small rural church where my husband was hired to play the organ. The church is a modest congregation located about thirty miles south of where we live in southern Ohio. Throughout the last year on Sunday mornings, my husband and I would wake up early, grab our travel mugs of coffee on the way out the door and make the forty-minute drive to church. While my husband rehearsed with the choir director, I would sit, listen, and take in the visual language of the sanctuary. The sanctuary is dome ..read more
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Finding the Transcendent in “Ugly Art”
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by Cat Bartels
2y ago
by Sarah Bernhardt CEREMONY, Matt Zorn, ceramic, glaze, 10” x 17” x 4”, 2020  You’ve arrived at the door of 3636 Texas Ave. in St. Louis Missouri to take in the exhibition Ritual at the Intersect Arts Center. If you’ve come here looking for beauty at first glance you will find it. And you won’t. There are some compositions that catch the eye with an immediate pleasing satisfaction. Some painstakingly detailed drawings in the back corner, some intricately stitched fiber works, perfectly crafted lithographic prints, a strand of 1000 freshwater pearls. But there are also 12 photographs ..read more
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Death Where is Thy Sting
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by Cat Bartels
2y ago
by Xenia Williams Protopriest Fr. Michael Taratuchkin of St. John Kronstadt Memorial Church in  Utica, N.Y A poor woman comes to a memorial service, and she reverently places on a table brought down for it an offering of Kollyva, in this case, a dish of sweetened boiled rice which will be served to the congregation after the memorial prayers for the dead are said. The priest and choir stand before the Kollyva, the cross, and the candles lit for the reposed and sing of the hope of resurrection. The kollyva itself has great symbolic value, in that several bible verses have been theologicall ..read more
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What to do with Differences: Artists and Art as Bridge
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by Cat Bartels
2y ago
By Isaac Tsetan Gergan, Marianne Lettieri, and Rachel Hostetter Smith Three friends, who participated in the Art for Change 2020 International Artist Residency in New Delhi, India, reflect on its theme. Participant of the 2015 Residency, “Human Dignity: the Many Faces of Abundance,” poses on a New Delhi trash heap with her painting inspired by the community of manual scavengers who live and work there. God designed beauty and meaning through differences Isaac: From the beginning of creation, we see differences in all aspects of God’s design: physical, emotional and spiritual. I think God ..read more
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Communing with Saints
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by Cat Bartels
2y ago
by Ryan Stander A shoebox at a flea market changed my life. A simple Nike shoebox filled with discarded family photographs broke my heart. With each photograph of unfamiliar faces and disconnected stories I flipped through, I grew a deeper realization of our shared humanity and mortality. Each photograph – a certificate of someone’s life and existence. Each portrait – an icon of silver, paper, and light. I wondered then…as I still do today… “Who are these people?” “What are they doing in this box?” “Will this be our fate as well?”    Now, nearly two decades later, this box still ..read more
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Mirrored in Mourning
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by Cat Bartels
2y ago
by Jordan Lienhoop I was standing before two alabaster statues in the Speed Art Museum: Hooded Mourner with Rosary and Hooded Mourner with Missal. Created in the mid-1400s at the School of Jean Cambrai in France, the sculptures are encased behind glass, standing no more than two feet high. Their faces are somber, heads bent, covered by heavily draped cloaks. These two statues were created to mourn over the tomb of a lost loved one far beyond the life of the person who commissioned them. Past my reflection in the glass encasement, six hundred years later, I found myself mirrored in their mourni ..read more
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