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Due to cold Vermont winters, The Art House Gallery will be closed January-April 2012. Classes will continue at The Art House as scheduled. The First Friday Art Talks will take place at the United Church on Craftsbury Common February-April 2012.
First Friday Art Talk Winter Speaker Series
Friday, February 3, 2012
6:30 - 7:30 pm
At the United Church of Christ, Craftsbury Common
Christian Art and Images:History of Christian Art and Imagery from the Earliest Times
Sam Thurston of Lowell, VT explores the evolution of Christian images from the 3rd century AD through the 20th century. Thurston will show a selection from some of the earliest works of art through the Renaissance into the modern, speaking about symbol, meaning, and expression.
Ever Ancient Ever New:
Breaking open ancient images through Iconography.Friday, March 2, 2012
6:30 - 8:00 pm
Presentation by Sister Bernadet Bostwick of the Green Mountain Monastery in Greensboro, VT.
In these beginning years of the 21st Century thousands of people from a wide variety of spiritual traditions have found themselves drawn to the mysterious and prayerful images found in the icons of Eastern Christianity. Today more than ever our sacred images with their mystical language can help us awaken to the beauty, grandeur, and sacredness of our home planet Earth and help us situate ourselves within the comprehensive context of an unfolding universe.
Bernadette Bostwick, along with Gail Worcelo, is co-founder of Green Mountain Monastery a new monastery in the Catholic Tradition with an original founding impulse that has gathered its inspiration from their mentor and co-founder, the late Fr Thomas Berry; monk, scholar, and cultural historian.
Sr. Bernadette uses as a sacred art form Christian Icons in order to bring about the integration of the story of the Universe with her deep Christic roots, and seeks to awaken the fullness of Christ at this new cosmological/planetary moment in time.
This talk is hosted by The Art House and the United Church of Craftsbury on Craftsbury Common. The talk will be in the sanctuary of the church, with a reception and refreshments provided by the Deacons of the Church after the talk.
