The study began with an introduction to egg tempera technique. Michael has had previous experience with many medias, this was the first time Michael worked with egg tempera. The greatest challenge for Michael was to learn how to conform to the parameters of Byzantine canonical style and technique. This is a very common challenge for […]
Michael and I, along with his wife Eva have been participating in the grant study since November 1, 2013. Michael has been a professional artist for 20 years. He designed sets for off Broadway shows in New York. Recently, he was awarded a Jerome grant for work in film making. His personal journey is very intertwined […]
Please watch for upcoming blogs which will share in the experience of Michael’s work. The Minnesota State Arts Board Folk and Traditional Arts is a pilot program designed to support the artistic traditions and customs practiced within community and/or cultural groups by identifying, documenting, creating, preserving, presenting, and honoring Minnesota’s folk arts and traditions. Michael […]
Summer Greetings! Soon, we will be back into the rhythm of icon classes. I hope your summer has been fruitful! A new year of teaching is always a gift in looking forward. An interesting quote from my phi beta kappa journal, “Practice anticipates, and seeks to prepare for, what the situation that we hope to perform in may be like…it is our […]
Announcing the new brochure that details my upcoming tour to Belarus/Lithuania in late Summer/early Fall of 2015. Download the brochure below, and be sure to contact me to register. Download Belarus-Lithuania Brochure
Byzantine Icon Painting Demonstration With Iconographer, Debra Korluka This Thursday, June 19th from 5:30-7:30pm, Debra will talk about the history and practice of icon painting, demonstrate with a work in progress and discuss materials. Her brand new book. Seeking the Face of Christ – The Way of the Iconographer, will be available for preview and […]
The blessing of the icons took place on March 30th with a delicious lenten meal that followed. Thank you to all those that attended and to all parishioners of St. Stefan Romanian Orthodox Church.
From “A Discourse in Iconography,” by Saint John of Shanghai and San Francisco Christianity is the inspiration of the world. Christ founded His Church in order to inspire, to transfigure the world, to cleanse it from sin and bring it to that state in which it will exist in the age to come. Christianity was […]
Transcendence Revealed by Jane Merriam de Vyver How dare we Break into Divine Silence With our arrogant noise When the beauty Of a song, a dance, A flower, an icon- Like the glee Of a child at play- Says more than All the world’s wise words So solemnly pronounced
Fr. Ihar Labacevich, priest at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Church, and I have started planning the program to co-lead a pilgrimage tour to Minsk, Belarus, Vilnius, Lithuania and Kyiv, Ukraine in late summer 2015. These places are Fr. Ihar’s native lands. We are including Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, because it was a […]