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I started as the Jeanne and Henry Varnell Artist-in-Residence at Memphis Theological Seminary this week. Whew, that's a mouthful. But I'm very excited.
My start date was offically over the weekend, and I celebrated (and took advantage of lower traffic, since I was sitting on a traffic island to do this) by painting Founder's Hall, the main seminary building. It's a lovely old mansion with marble and plaster and a ballroom on the second floor, which is now the chapel (carpeted, sadly, which the dancer in me hates, but with some lovely stained glass added). I can't wait to do some more sketching of the lovely plasterwork interiors.
This week we had a planning meeting to lay out the fall, and the chaplain (my excellent boss Tiffany McClung) accepted my idea of "creation" as a theme for the first month of worship. I'll be creating art for the bulletin each week as part of my residency, and to my delight, they print in color. Much of my
liturgical work has been in black and white to honor the budget constraints of the churches I work with. When I began, pen and ink was more comfortable for me anyway, but I've really been enjoying watercolor the last couple of years, so I'm excited to get to branch out a bit for MTS. Here is my Genesis painting for the first week of chapel. I'm looking forward to doing a series.
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