Arts and Music at Redeemer

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shell Drops, oil on canvas, 48″ x 48″, ©Yael Zahavy-Mittelman 2007, $3000

The strength of color, shape, and line is the core of the artist, Yael Zahavy-Mittelman’s artwork. Color, lots of color, deep, thick, forms her images and composes her canvases. Yael Zahavy-Mittelman Is an abstract expressionist artist. “I am a very passionate painter. The canvas, paints, and varies materials dictate my art dance, the process of my work. I love opening my studio in the morning and giving myself up to the art process.”

Originally from Israel, Yael now makes her home in the Seattle area. To see more of her work please visit her website at www.YaelsArt.com and her blog at www.YaelsBlog.com. Her email is yaelsart.com@gmail.com.

untitled (out of darkness), oil on canvas, 18″ x 14″, ©Matthew Whitney 2008

Matthew’s been very busy this year, and his work will also be on display at two other exhibits in Seattle concurrently with Out of Darkness. He has a solo show “Sleep of Faith” at Marni Muir Gallery in Pioneer Square opening tonight (December 3rd), and his work is also part of The Vancouver Project.

More of Seattle artist Matthew Whitney’s work can be seen on his website at www.mattsbasement.com and you can email him at matt@mattsbasement.com.

www.one.org, 6″ x 11″ mosaic, ©Kathy Thaden 2008, $195

Kathy writes:

“One billion people live on less than one dollar a day. Together we can fight to end global poverty, hunger, disease bringing compassion and justice to the poorest people of the world - shedding light in some of the world’s darkest places.

All proceeds of the sale of this mosaic will be donated to The ONE Campaign.”

www.one.org is one of two mosaics from Colorado artist  Kathy Thaden that will be on display in Out of Darkness. You can find more of Kathy’s mosaics on her website at www.thadenmosaics.com and you can email her at thadenmosaics@msn.com.

Beyond, photographic print, 10″ x 15″ (framed 20″ x 25″), ©John R. Math, $450

Florida photographer John R. Math will have three photographs exhibited in Out of Darkness. You can find more of John’s work on his website at www.johnrmath.com and you can email him at johnrmath@bellsouth.com.