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“She Pondered These Things”

By Marguerite S. Quinn

Opening Concert & Reception

Washington Arts Group Exhibition

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Love in the Crucible:
Washington, D.C. – St. Petersburg, Russia
Concert featuring the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra
Performing works by Bach, Mozart and Vivaldi.
Soloists: David Cho, cello & Eugene Dovgalyuk, violin.

Gallery Talk by Special Guest Dr. Tina Khmelnitskaya
Curator of Russian Porcelain, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Jerry Eisley will join Dr. Khmelnitskaya to discuss how the exhibition reflects the ongoing joint arts outreach in Anacostia and Russia through the Washington Arts Group.

Sunday, March 15, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Truro Church, 10520 Main Street, Fairfax, Va. 22030

 The exhibition features Biblical narrative paintings by Marguerite Slocum Quinn.  One of America’s outstanding impressionist portrait painters and works of art by children from the Vladimir Romanov Palace Children’s Arts Outreach in St. Petersburg, Russia.  The paintings and children’s work celebrate the joy that comes in the presence of difficulty.  Quinn’s subjects for her Biblical narrative Paintings are African Americans from Anacostia.

Exhibition continues through May 17 at Truro Church Gallery.

For exhibition information, call the Washington Arts Group at 202-363-2345

Via Brian Kurth, Career Advisor and fellow blogger, comes this great opportunity for Creative Director in Appleton, Wisconsin. Warning: you need a lot of experience for this one, but if you’ve been in the business or have earned your creative wings, go for it!

For those who live in the DC or Chicago areas….

The Foundation for Sacred Arts is pleased to announce two upcoming events:

“The Beauty that Saves: Art in the Life of the Church” is our newest 5-part speaker series. With enlightening talks given by prominent Catholic artists and art historians, this series will demonstrate the manner in which beautiful Christian art is indispensable for catechizing the faithful, facilitating prayer, and inspiring conversion. Talks will be held at 7pm every other Wednesday from April through May at the Catholic Information Center, 1501 K Street NW, Washington, DC 2005. $10 suggested donation at the door.

Lecture schedule:
4/1 — Father Giles Dimock, OP: “Art and the Liturgy”
4/15 — H. Reed Armstrong: “Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?”
4/29 — Dr. Jem Sullivan: “St. Paul in Art: The Beauty of Holiness”
5/13 — Art Lohsen, AIA RIBA: “Transcendent Beauty: The Importance of Catholic Architecture”
5/27 — David Clayton: “Hope in Suffering: How Baroque Art made God Present on Earth”

“A New Way of Seeing: Understanding Christian Art”, offers a day of exploring art and the Christian faith. Learn about meaning and content in Christian art through lectures by David Clayton and Reed Armstrong, two recognized Catholic artists/art theorists. See the beauty and permanence of the Christian faith in works of art with a guided tour of the Art Institute of Chicago. April 25th, 2009 from 9:30am- 3:30pm. Program begins with a Mass and two lectures held at St. John Cantius Catholic Church, 825 North Carpenter Street, Chicago, Illinois 60642. Transportation to and from the Art Institute will be provided. $35 registration includes museum admission, and transportation to and from the museum.

I found on a friend’s blog a post on mediocrity and marketing natural family planning, and I agree with the mediocrity in marketing Church work and evangelization in general. The bar is usually way too low, and definitely behind the technological curve. Well, I found a new web site you might like: Catholic Media House. It’s got great resources for the new evangelization: mini-movies, backers (for song projections or powerpoints) in motion or stills, and more. They even have section for free stuff. Check it out!

I just wandered over to Catholicexchange.com, which I like to do from time to time, and found something that piqued my interest: nice story and defense of sacred images by Arturo Vasquez. He introduces his overview of the importance of sacred images with an recent story of a burglared parish.