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 The Epiphany story is one of graces and of trials. The stories of the star-gazers and the Holy Family, their travels on the road and their willingness to listen with the ear of their hearts, can teach us something of how God’s grace is at work in our own lives.
The art and artists selected for this exhibition illustrate the Epiphany story as seen and experienced in the artists’ own lives and creative practices.
• Lisa Thorpe stitches hand-dyed and hand-printed fabrics to create a memoir of listening she calls ‘From Sea to Sky and Back Again’, noting “We came off the hill that day with resolve that it was time to change our life.”
• Steven Schroeder visits Tibet and, in ‘Lhasa’, shares a miracle of the road in text and painting.
• Jan Ramsey accompanies her ‘Incarnation and Dust’ with a reminding truth. “Little do we know how our actions in the world affect divine history, divine story. Which of the migrating families in the desert are the ancestors of the woman who speaks to Jesus at the well, or is the great, great grandfather of Nicodemus or of Mary, Martha and Lazarus?”
• Frank Logue records in ‘Solidarity’ a chance meeting with other pilgrims at a site of modern martyrdom in Memphis.
• Rara Schliitt accompanies ‘Beholder’ with a poem that asks,
Singer of whispers
Breeze in the trees
What is it, I can give to Thee?
• Jack Pachuta visually retells the Nativity/Epiphany story in one of iconography’s classic presentations, ‘Romanesque Nativity’.
• Tobias Haller writes an ancient prayer in his ‘On The Pilgrims' Way’ as “… a reminder of the One who has redeemed him, and who is with him and upholds him in all of his journeys…”
There are 25 artists and 38 works in this diverse show. Some are color-drenched like Alisa Clark’s ‘From Where I Glean My Faith’ and Elizabeth de Sherbinin’s ‘Before the Fog Burns Off.’ Others like Sally Brower’s ‘Pilgrim Cross’ record moments of private pilgrimage. In their art and in their words, all of the artists of this show lay at the feet of you, the viewer, the words of poet Kara Jackson, “flight is an act of fleeing as much as an act of flying.”
- Mel Ahlborn, Guest Curator
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