ECVA Board of Directors 2024 |
President & Exhibitions Director
Joy Jennings
Treasurer
The Rev. Robert Tate
Vice President & Secretary
Mel Ahlborn
Members of the Board
Jeanne Harris Weaver, Newsletter Editor
Jorin Hood, Director of Video and New Media
Joy Newton Jennings
Joy Newton Jennings is the President and Exhibitions Director of Episcopal Church & Visual Arts, Inc. She describes her journey into the world of visual art through her experience as a dancer. Joy writes that "I am very aware of line, movement, and color as I work, as if I am creating and choreographing a dance on the canvas." Jennings weaves her art into every aspect of her life, including creating a French curriculum for high school students through the use of art.
A resident of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Jennings is an oil painter who is represented by several galleries in Mississippi and Louisiana. Visit Joy Jennings online at joyjenningsart.com.
The Rev. Robert L. Tate is the Treasurer of Episcopal Church and Visual Arts, Inc. Bob is a retired Episcopal priest. From 2010 to 2018 he served as part-time Priest Associate at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, where he coordinated the Cathedral Visual Arts Program. From 1995 to 2009 Bob was the Rector of the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. Bob is a graduate of Princeton University '72 and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University, '76. He was ordained priest in the Diocese of CT in 1980.
Bob and his wife, Ann Greene, who is a retired administrator and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, live in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, and spend as much time as possible at their "camp" in Saranac Lake, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains.
Mel Ahlborn is the Vice President and Secretary of Episcopal Church and Visual Arts, Inc. Mel is a classically trained fine artist, manuscript illuminator and gilder. Her workshop, Illumination Studio, is based in the San Francisco Bay area. From 2000 to 2009 Mel served in a variety of positions within ECVA, helping to grow ECVA from its first, 12-entry exhibition into the vibrant arts platform it is today.
Mel produced the 2009 Visual Predludes, liasing with the Worship Committee of The General Convention of The Episcopal Church to provide multimedia liturgical art for the triennial worshiop services. Her book, Visio Divina - A Reader in Faith and The Visual Arts, with Kenneth Arnold, is published by Leader Resources. Visit Mel Ahlborn online at Illumination Studio.
Jeanne Harris Weaver
Jeanne Harris Weaver serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of ECVA as the Newsletter Editor. Jeanne is Senior Warden of St. David’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Cocoa Beach, FL where she has created Liturgical Art to include The Stations of the Cross and Those Who Minister to Christ. Jeanne, a full time resident of Cocoa Beach, Florida, paints at her condo home on the ocean. She is a published fine artist who works primarily in oils. Jeanne holds a BA degree from Florida Atlantic University. She studied oil painting for three years under master artist James Warrick Jones. She received an Honorary Degree from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia on May 17, 2017 for her series of paintings and book, Losing Todd: A Mother's Journey, published by the Muscarelle Museum of Art of the College of William and Mary.
As an artist, Jeanne continues to pursue knowledge of art and its techniques through color, form, light and composition striving to always be true to her personal form of expression. Visit Jeanne Harris Weaver online at jeanneweaverartist.com. Contact Jeanne Harris Weaver by email at ECVA.newsletter@gmail.com.
Jorin Hood
Jorin Hood is the ECVA Director of Video and New Media. He is a full-time video producer and amateur photographer.
Jorin writes: "I started telling visual stories in television news-shooting and editing stories every day. I then moved to the world of freelance work where I got experience on larger crews and larger projects.
"Now I make videos in the corporate world and look for soul food projects to do in my spare time."
