Commissions and Commitments
Holt Presbyterian Church
Holt, Michigan
Completed 2024
Examples of designs for six, liturgical seasonal paraments (pulpit, lectern, table, and baptismal font frontals) and roundels in mirror repeat to flank each side of the exit from the sanctuary. Fabricated by congregational members and supported by a Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Grant.
Artist-in-Residence
Presbyterian Association of Musicians
National Conference, June 2024
Montreat, North Carolina
Created painted paper banners and paraments utilizing children’s images and images communicating solely through the power of suggestion. All images bore relevance to the worship themes.
Shallowford Presbyterian Church
Lewisville, North Carolina
Dedicated, November 2024
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Site-specific Table, Pulpit and Baptismal Designs for frontals interpreting the three initiatives of the Presbyterian Church (USA):
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(1) Encourage congregations to dismantle structural racism and eradicate systemic poverty (Matthew 25) design for table.
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(2) Celebrate and foster cultural diversity design for baptismal font.
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(3) Live with care of the earth so that all may flourish design for the pulpit.
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois
Installed, December 2024
“Passages” is a 9’ in diameter painted wood relief with needlepointed inserts stitched by the Garrett community. The 4’ x 4’ center contains a cross and a Trinitarian symbol that conflates when viewed frontally.
First Trinity Lutheran Church
Washington, D.C.
Installed, December 2024
Design and Fabrication of Christmas/Easter Paraments.
2025
Publication of “A Guide for Visual Literacy” in “Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts,”
a publication of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
Writing my memoir
Underway 2026
Under consideration: complex permanent sanctuary works involving participatory aesthetics:
Trinity Lutheran Church, North Bethesda, Maryland
Saint Maria Goretti Catholic Church, Dyer, Indiana