Arts and Faith

Lent: Native American Stations of the Cross

The 14 images aligning with the Stations of the Cross were created by artist Melanie Twelves. The focus on the last moments of the life of Jesus Christ is common during Lent. Our focus on Native American imagery felt particularly appropriate when considering the impact the COVID pandemic has had on native populations. Scriptural texts, meditations, and a prayer accompaniment for …

Past Exhibition: ​‘This Is My Story'

An Online Exhibition (Advent 2020)

All the paths of the Lord are love . . . .

~ Psalm 25:9

St. Michael’s Advent 2020 exhibition is “This Is My Story: Women and Homelessness.” A collaboration between artist Susan Cornelis; Sonoma, California’s The Living Room, a day shelter for women and mothers with children who are experiencing homelessness; and Justicewise, a nonprofit dedicated t…

Past Exhibition: The Divine Feminine

An Online Group Exhibition (July 2020)

Participating Artists: Elisabeth (Beth) Hudgins, Linda Maldonado, Elise Ritter, Deborah Taylor

Introduction

What is “The Divine Feminine”? It is the spirit of empathy, connectedness, wholeness, and creativity that dwells within and around us. It is the sacred, sensuous, and invisible presence that urges us to explore, express, and grow. It is t…

Past Exhibition: Artists and Poets Respond to the Pandemic

An Online Exhibition (May 2020)
Introduction

If the world will not go away then the great discipline seems to be the ability to make an identity that can live in the midst of everything without feeling beset.
~ David Whyte, “Besieged” in Consolations

Beauty invites us, through entrancement, to that fearful frontier between what we think makes us; and what we think makes the worl…