September 2019 Artist at Walworth Co. Gov't. Center, Elkhorn, WI

Honored to be the featured artist for September in the display case at the Walworth County Government Center (formerly the old court house), in downtown Elkhorn, WI.

Stop in and see some of my assemblages, on display, Sept. 3rd - Sept. 30th.

Art In The Park 2019, Lake Geneva, WI

 Geneva Lake Arts Foundation / Gallery 223 held the annual Art In The Park event in Flat Iron Park, downtown, Lake Geneva, WI on August 10 & 11.

My display in the Members Pavillon helped bring in customers and art lovers.  I helped out with the Children's Gazebo on Sunday, where kids can make their own art to take home.

The Least of These...

My latest assemblage reflects the atrocities happening at the southern borders of the USA. People being put into cages, children separated from their parents, and more! "...the country is embroiled in a furious debate over the conditions of U.S. immigration detention facilities, as violence and poverty in Central America sends many refugees and migrants northward." USA Today, July 17, 2019 

This assemblage is based on Matthew 25:40, where Jesus said, "..whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." 

Also remembering part of what is written on the base of the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me..." 

I recently read a quote from an art show by Lauren Bon; "Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy". 

This assemblage is a sad reflection on what our society is doing now. How does this make America great? What is our response to the horrible things going on in our country?

More Camp Art

We had some really great, creative kids for the arts and crafts part of camping week.  We had a project that many worked on for two days.  They all turned out great!
Creations displayed in the chapel... RED, BROWN, YELLOW, BLACK & WHITE … & MORE! ~ Camp Art - June, 2019 ~

“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free,
nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Galatians 3:28
Book of Common Prayer - The Catechism, pg. 846.  “What does this mean about human life?”  “...all people are worthy of respect and honor, because all are created in the image of God, and all can respond to the love of God.”
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.
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Other art projects were paintings, crosses, decorating journals and more!

Camp Art Fun

I was blessed to again do "arts and crafts" for a week for the Fond du Lac Diocese summer camp at Camp Lakota in Wautoma, WI.  We had a theme one of the days highlighting when Jesus called His first disciples, who were fishermen.  He told them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men and women!"  So we had some fish forms for the kids (2nd - 5th grade) to paint and decorate.  The finished fish were part of the altar display, which featured a prayer net (where each person tied on a prayer), and each received a bracelet made of fish spinners and a small wood cross to wear to remind them that they too are called to follow Jesus and be fishers of people too.

Icon Workshop * St. Francis

St. Aidan's Episcopal Church in Harford, WI held a fun and informative workshop, by Iconographer, Alice Pollock. What can normally take months to "write", we did in a 7+ hour workshop, that gave us an introduction to creating our own icon. Looking forward to doing this again soon!  In fact, Christ Episcopal in Delavan will be doing another Icon of Christ in November 2019.
Here are some of the steps in doing the St. Francis icon.  I am not at all a painter, so this was learning new things for me, but I enjoyed the aspects of quiet and reflection as we did each step along the way.

Alice had the features pre-drawn for us.

Drying with fans between steps.

Alice showed us on her icon, how to do
the various steps along the way.

My finished icon.

A collection of our efforts, each one
individualized by the icon writers.

Alleluia! He is Risen! Art in the Narthex

Art in the Narthex at Christ Episcopal, Delavan, featured an empty tomb for Easter Sunday morning, and the following week or so. 

From John 20:1-9  "Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.  So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”
 So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.  Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.  He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.  Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there,  as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen.  Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.  (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)