ECVA and the Episcopal Church have collaborated to create a gallery of artwork titled "Saints & Family"  introduced on the Episcopal Church web site homepage. 

Bowie Snodgrass, Web Content Editor at the Episcopal Church Center, summarizes the purpose of the exhibition in an Episcopal Life Online article by Jerry Hames titled New art gallery, 'Saints & Family,' launched on Episcopal Church web site.  She said "The artists' subjects call us to listen to the wisdom of generations, inspire us to find Christ in our own lives and transcend time, inviting us into a spiritual encounter." Describing the goal of providing visual images  appealing to first-time visitors to the church's web site,  Snodgrass said "We hope visitors will be moved by the images in some small way and that they will resonate with their religious past."

Brie Dodson, ECVA Director of Communications, points out in the ELO article that "Saints & Family" is important to ECVA members because it continues the collaboration between ECVA and the church's Office of Communication.  Such collaboration provides a significant opportunity for ECVA to engage in its mission of encouraging visual arts in the the church.

Transfiguration: Dwellings

(mixed media with acrylic and oil on birch panel, 24" x 24", 2007)

The face of Image and Likeness

Curator, Carole Baker, 15 of ECVA's artists and our web editor, Dan Hardison, have provided us with our latest exhibition, Image and Likeness, a deeply moving exhibition that asked artists to demonstrate how they see Christ.

In Baker's Curator Statement she indicates that she allowed the Call's invitation to guide how she experienced the holy season and found herself pondering several questions: What role does the image of Christ play in our understanding of Christian discipleship? How do we learn to look for Christ in our lives? And how does this practice of intentional observation affect how Christ might be present not only in the things we observe but – and perhaps more importantly – in ourselves? Is there a reciprocal relationship between seeing Christ in others and others seeing Christ in us?

Please join us in exploring the images that called to Thomas during her journey through Lent, and meditate upon how you see Christ in your life.

Many thanks to Baker, a Research Associate at Duke Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina, for drawing together her vision of the season for all of ECVA, and to the following artists who contributed their work for the exhibition: Lynn Chidwick, Reuben Craft, Brie Dodson, Lorna E. Effler, Erin McGee Ferrell, Roger Hutchison, C. Robin Janning, Sr. Claire Joy; Caroline Kramer; Judith McManis; Jan Neal; Betsy Porter; Carolyn Rhoads; Suzanne Schleck and Susan Tilt.