Art and Music Tuesdays in July

July 3rd, 2009

Every Tuesday evening in July, the Redeemer community is meeting for music, art and Eucharist.

Here’s the schedule:

  • 6:00pm — Bring your own dinner
  • 6:30pm — Learn music to sing during the Eucharist
  • 7:00pm — Eucharist
  • 7:30pm to approximately 9:00pm — Art, and more music

We’ll be posting photos to the blog as we go, so stay tuned!

Christmas Altarpiece 2009: Preparing a new canvas

July 2nd, 2009

Stretcher bars for new canvasNew CanvasRon and I have been making a new canvas for our Christmas altarpiece, which we’ll be working on for the “art” portion of the Art and Music Tuesdays which start next week! In the first photo the framework is getting muslin stretched over it, and in the second photo the muslin is drying after we soaked it so it would tighten up. It is now tight as a drum and ready for a coat of gesso.

Many, many heartfelt thanks to Ron who not only agreed to make this, but improved greatly upon the original design. It’s a beautiful thing.

The final size of the two panels hinged together is about 10 feet by 8 feet, and I can’t wait to cover it with rich colors! Check back to watch our progress.

-Angela

Music for Holy Week and Pascha

March 31st, 2009

Pipes

The Sunday of the Passion  choir and organ

Choral Psalm 22  anglican chant/Hopkins

Choral Anthem  Adoramus te Christe/Jacques Berthier

Maundy Thursday   women’s schola, soloists, and organ

Organ prelude  Variations on Pange lingua glorioso/Nicolas de Grigny

Choral Psalm 78  plainsong, after Hildegard of Bingen

Choral Anthem  Panis Angelicus/Giuseppe Baini

Duet   Tantum Ergo/Nicolas Gigault
Erica Row & Christina Siemens

Solo   A Song of Lamentation/John Karl Hirten

Stacey Porter

Good Friday    choir and organ

Choral Anthem  Behold, Before Our Wondering Eyes/ Walker & Berberick

Corpus Christi procession

The Great Paschal Vigil   choir, soloists, trumpet, and organ

Choral Canticle  Come, let us sing to the Lord!/Dorothy J. Papadakos

Solo   Alleluia, from Cantata 51/J. S. Bach
Erica Row

Trumpet Offertory Aria/Flor Peeters
Judson Scott

Choral Anthem  Be Still and Know/Ana Hernandez

Organ Postlude  Allegro vivace assai, from Sonata No. 1/Felix Mendelssohn

The Sunday of the Resurrection  choir, soloists, trumpet, and organ

Trumpet Prelude Largo & Allegro/J. F. Fasch
Judson Scott

Solo   Victoria, mein Jesus ist erstanden/G. P. Telemann
Glenn Guhr

Duet   Maria Magdelena et alter Maria/Sulpitia Cesis
Christina Siemens & Glenn Guhr

Choral Anthem  Jesu, Joy of Our Desiring/J. S. Bach

Trumpet Postlude Moderato & Allegro/Guiseppe Torelli

Judson Scott

Concerto Baroque performance

II Pascha    soloist and flute duet

Solo   I know that my Redeemer liveth, from Messiah/G. F. Handel
Christina Siemens

Gift of Water announcement

March 27th, 2009

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Call to Artists - Gift of Water

February 11th, 2009

Call to Artists - Gift of Water

Our gallery is seeking artwork expressing the theme “Gift of Water” (exploring the various associations with water and baptism: renewal, rebirth, resurrection, cleansing, life, oceans, rain, etc.) - a juried art exhibit that will be on view in our nave gallery throughout the 2009 Easter season, April 8 - June 3, with an artists’ reception planned for the evening of April 16th.  All genres and media considered. Artwork needs to be 2-dimensional–it can extend into the third dimension, but it must be able to be hung on a wall.

Where: CR Gallery, Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore, WA

When: April 8 – June 3, 2009

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 16, 6:30– 8:30pm

How: Submit up to 3 jpegs (72dpi, 600 pixels on the longest side) via e-mail to arts@redeemer-kenmore.org. Please include your name, contact information, and a few words about your work. Also include title, medium, framed dimensions, and retail price of each image submitted. Submission deadline is March 23, 2009. The work will then be juried and acceptance notifications and delivery instructions will be sent out via e-mail by March 25th.

Entry fee: $15 (USD) for up to 3 images, payable via PayPal. This needs to be paid before work can be submitted to the jury.


Please take note of the following:
•Artwork must be ready to hang, preferably from a wire. Photographs and
artwork on paper must be framed with a wire attached for hanging. Canvases
do not need to be framed, but the sides should be painted, either a solid
color or as a continuation of the image, in order to give a neat,
professional appearance, and must have a wire attached to the stretchers
for hanging purposes.

•For work that is shipped, all shipping costs will be the responsibility
of the artist.

•Artwork can be for sale. The gallery will direct buyers directly to the
artist and takes no commission.

•The gallery will take care of advertising and publicity, and artists with
accepted work will receive postcard announcements to distribute
themselves.

•In addition to being displayed in the nave gallery, accepted artists will
also be featured on the church’s website.

•For ease of transport, and so we get to meet you, we are especially
seeking artists in the Puget Sound area, but this call is open to all
artists over 18.

•If you have any questions, please email Angela at arts@redeemer-kenmore.org.

Please feel free to pass this information along to other artists you think
might be interested.

Notes on the music for Advent IV

December 19th, 2008

This Sunday’s anthem is from the 15th century, and like many English carols from that period has a text which alternates between English and Latin. The Latin refrain, “Nova! Nova! Ave fit ex Eva!”, can be translated as “News! News! ‘Ave’ has been made from ‘Eve’!”.

Ave refers to Mary (as in Ave Maria), and the name is especially symbolic in that it is Eve (Eva) spelled backward.

Out of Darkness Artists’ Reception tomorrow night!

December 10th, 2008

Some views of the exhibit from the altar. For a closer view, and to meet some of the artists, please join us for the artists’ reception tomorrow (November 11th) evening, 6:30–8:30.

On Caravaggio’s Calling of St. Matthew

December 10th, 2008

\"Carravagio\'s Calling of Saint Matthew\"

Caravaggio, The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1599-1600
Oil on canvas, 10′ 7 1/2″ X 11′ 2″
Contarelli Chapel, Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

My friend (and poet extraordinaire) Gregory Crosby wrote this wonderful poem in honor of the Out of Darkness (Into Light) exhibit, inspired by this powerful painting by the Baroque painter Caravaggio.

On Caravaggio’s Calling of Saint Matthew

The world is its own shadow.

In the house where everything
is counted, nothing gained,

the afternoon’s gold slips beneath
the pane, & dusk raises something

in hearts that will not otherwise rouse.
Someone is at the door. He lifts

his arm from this quotidian shade,
this everyday dark so rich it cannot

exist anywhere but in this world.
The sun seems to frame his head,

casting his profile into deeper shadow,
but it is his hand that gleams: languid,

simple, assured. His companion’s hand
shadows it, though this man’s gray

head as yet only catches the light
of day. Two sharps in sumptuary

turn toward the strangers; two men,
young & old, at the table’s end, see

nothing to stir them just yet from
silver… & a gold coin glints from

Levi’s black cap, glimmers thanks
to a brushstroke as subtle as Christ’s

halo, as the tax collector points
to himself in soft alarm, as if to say

Who, me? But his softer eyes betray him.
He knows, as if across the chapel’s dim

effulgence he sees himself, Matthew—
sees his martyrdom, & accepts it, like a

sum that cannot be wrong. This is how
it is. This is how the light arrives: without

fanfare, like any, every morning; a light
that reveals all darkness is only absence,

only shadow; the hand of light, paused,
midair, just below the terminus of the

shadow on the wall. The light, here;
the world, here; the world, elsewhere.

Out of Darkness artist: Shelly Baur

December 5th, 2008

Shelly Baur is the calligrapher who lettered the “Out of Darkness (Into Light)” used for the announcement above. She also did the lettering for the Silence exhibit announcement last year. This year we are fortunate enough to have some of her calligraphy in the exhibit.

The Color of Light, watercolor/sumi ink/Micron pen on Arches hot press watercolor paper, approx. 4″x 8″ framed to approx. 6″ x 12″, ©Shelly Baur 2008, $75

“In deciding on how to depict the show’s title with calligraphy, I wanted to go beyond the obvious first solution of just using black and white.  It seemed too stark of a contrast for a title that evokes the idea of enlightenment.  Therefore, I fractured the word LIGHT as if through stained glass to represent both the idea of enlightenment paths as well as how white light really is a rainbow of colors.  The stained glass effect also references the iconic church window.”

Shelly Baur specializes in custom lettering art including:  weddings, announcements, logos, book titles, business cards, illuminated letters, and more. Though she doesn’t have an online portfolio yet (trust me, her work is stunning), you can contact Shelly Baur Calligraphy by phone at (206) 910-7811, and by email at shellybaur@comcast.net.

Out of Darkness artist: Angela Wales Rockett

December 4th, 2008

Mapping the Depths, acrylic/collage on canvas, 12″ x 24″, ©2008 Angela Wales Rockett, $500

Oh, and me. I will have three paintings on display in Out of Darkness. You can find more of my art on my website at www.studiotenshi.com and you can email me at angela@studiotenshi.com.

Two of my paintings have also been accepted for ECVA’s (Episcopal Church and Visual Arts) online exhibit “Light of the World” which you can see here.