2019 Art as Prayer Show * Art For God's Sake

Our yearly Art as Prayer Show at Christ Episcopal, Delavan, WI was held March 20 -24th.  Over 75 artists, of all ages, displayed 150+ works of art, in varied mediums, along with scriptural or prayer references to reflect on each piece.   More photos can be seen on my facebook post at this link

Assemblage Collaboration with Sunday School kids....

This was a fun project that we did for an upcoming Art As Prayer Show at Christ Episcopal Church, Delavan, WI.  I found the barn boards at a local place, already stained various colors.  Then cut them to different lengths, using the cut off piece for the heads.  Drilled some holes for the eyes and mouth.  Some of our Sunday School kids stayed after Church for a few weeks to help with this.  The kids decorated the heads of the people, and the hearts.  I attached them all together, added drift wood arms, and when we displayed them, we had them on blocks of wood, and slid some wooden shoe stretchers underneath to make it seem like they were wearing shoes. 


 “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all 
one in Christ Jesus.”   Galations 3:28

Jesus loves the little children, 
All the children of the world
Red, brown, yellow, black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Goose Gal and Hatchlings

This is a fun assemblage, body part swap... used a neck and head of a goose, that was on a basket, and the body of a doll.  I merged them using black and white tissue paper, mod podged onto the body and neck.  Added some features to make the feet look webbed, added feathers, and she was transformed!

I also took some plastic Easter Eggs, and cut a mouth into them, modpodged with red tissue paper inside, and black and white on the outside.  I added teeth, legs, and feathers, and the hatchlings were born... well, partially born. Heh!

I made a nest out of some sticks and a recycled placemat, on a turntable for them to live on.

This may become part of my "cabinet of curiousities" I am slowly working on.

finished hatchlings

Reuniting my Aunt with her childhood teddybear

This is my Aunt, as a child, with her teddy bear.  My Grandmother, her mother, had saved it, and kept it in the room that was my Aunt's for years and years after she had married and moved from town.

When my Grandmother died, my Aunt didn't want the extra things, but my Mom kept it along with other remembrances.

When my Mom died, we split up family things, and I took the teddy bear.  Going through bins of old family photos, I found this one.  Since I had the bear, I decided to put it into a shadow box type of assemblage along with the photo, and added a ladybug, which are favorite's of my Aunt's too.  I gifted to her on her 92nd birthday.

She loved it, and when I was hanging it in her bedroom, she noticed that the chair in the photo she is sitting on, was the same childhood chair she had in her bedroom now too!  It was fun giving her back this childhood treasure!

More Art in the Narthex

Our Church, Christ Episcopal, Delavan, extends an offer to artists of all ages, and mediums, to use our narthex (entrance/greeting room), to display their works of art that offer an artistic glimpse of God, of the Holy, and Sacred.
  These next few months, we are helping promote the 2019 Bible Reading Plan that our priest Father Pedro has challenged the congregation to do.  Father Pedro likes us to also concentrate on the theme he feels God is calling us to... from Matthew 6:33  "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness...." 

The art currently being shown, reflects that theme, as well as some art installations that reflect stories from Genesis and Exodus, the first two books of the bible.

Some of these I made, others are items I found, and repurposed, adding things to them, to create the installation.

More will be added as the weeks progress to further highlight scripture passages from the Old Testament, and into the New Testament.

Memory Jug for Alysha

This was a fun memory jug to make, for my soon to be daughter-in-law, Alysha.  Using many of her personal trinkets and memories of her own and her parents and grandparents, as well as a few trinkets to fill in some places too.  There are some of her cat's teeth, her own baby tooth, diaper pins, jewelry from relatives, and from her childhood, and other fun memories.  I found a cool silver pedastal to attach it to as well.

Call to Artists! Art As Prayer Show

2019 ART AS PRAYER

SHOW and DEVOTIONS

From Generation to Generation

Christ Episcopal Church, Delavan, WI is celebrating 175 years during 2019.  During Lent this year, from March 20th - 24th, they are hosting an Art as Prayer Show.

We welcome artists of all ages, and all mediums to be a part of our show.  For more details and to get a registration form, contact me and I can email you a pdf format of the registration form with more info.

Last year we had over 50 artists displaying over 125 works of arts, with meditations.  We welcome YOU to be a part of the Art Show this year!