ECVA - Tobias Stanislas Haller - Expectations and Epiphany

~ CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS ~

Margaret Amada 1 2 3 · Sally Brower 1 2 · Alisa Clark 1 2 3 · Kay Vass Darling 1 · Elizabeth de Sherbinin 1 · Tobias Stanislas Haller 1 · Linda Witte Henke 1 · Joy Jennings 1 · Catherine D. Kerr 1 2 3 4 · Karen Loew 1 2 3 4 · Mary Jane Miller 1 2 3 · Jan Ramsey 1 · Zachary Roesemann 1 · Nancy Schofield 1 2 · Claudia Smith 1 2 3 · Kathy Thaden 1 · Jeanne Harris Weaver 1 2 3

Tobias Stanislas Haller

Tree of Life

Artist Statement: This image was created as part of a workshop on exploring themes of pilgrimage, in this case the journey from the Tree of Eden to the "Tree" of the cross. The paper diptych shows the Tree of Eden with its "apple" when closed, but opens to reveal the Tree of Calvary with the pierced heart of Jesus at its center. Old Adam confronts New Adam in that moment.

Bio: Tobias Stanislas Haller BSG retired from full-time ministry after 16 years as Vicar at St James Fordham (Bronx NY). While in New York he served diocesan leadership as a trustee and on the Standing Committee, as Deputy to General Convention for over a decade, and a on the Anglican Communion Indaba Reference Group. He lives in Baltimore and is an associate at Church of the Advent, Federal Hill. He is a life-professed member of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory, and a Commander of the Order of St John. An iconographer, visual artist (who has served as an ECVA curator in the past), musician, and author, his publications include Reasonable and Holy (Seabury 2009), Shared Governance (Church Publishing 2012), The Episcopal Handbook Revised (Church Publishing 2015), Preparing for a Wedding in the Episcopal Church (Church Publishing 2017), What About Sex? — A Little Book of Guidance (Church Publishing 2017), and his most recent, Re-Membering God: Human Hope and Divine Desire (Church Publishing 2019) which includes chapters on art, music, and architecture as human articulations of this quest.