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Spiritual landmark: Unitarian Universalist Church of Tarpon Springs
Florida church home to largest collection of paintings by George Inness Jr.
Drawing: Pigs
Drawing from a 'weird and highly focused comfort zone.'
Installation: Valley UU Congregation, Chandler, Arizona
Wooden panels created by and for the congregation.
Painting: Walking stick memories
The emergence of character over time.
Glass sculpture: We are each other's keepers
Symbols of infinity and the interconnected life force.
Spiritual landmark: Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island
Artist-members grace Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Whidbey Island.
Painting: Night dance
Rough, improvisational, many-layered.
Quilt: O Life that maketh all things new
A minister's sabbatical quilting project.
Textile: My heart bleeds for you III
Today's refuse, sewn together as 'a Garden of Eden.'
Seeing what is real
A photographer describes his spiritual practice of "looking for the pattern of things."
Stained glass: Nautilus
'Paradoxically simple in its beauty and complex in its engineering.'
Mixed media: Woods sentinel
Interpreting the visual treasures that surround us.
Painting: 57th and Broadway at 5:00 pm
The challenge of not relying on recognizable subject matter.
Painting: Snowy bank
A rare storm offers a new scene.
Mixed media: Unity
Celebrating natural, wild forms.
Sculpture: A reliquary of wood
Honoring the native hardwoods of Arkansas.
Sculpture: Unitarian windows
A collaboration yields a classical form.
Sculpture: 88 notes
A piano is transformed.
Spiritual landmark, Summer 2011
The focal point of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse, N.Y., is a window depicting the world's religions.
Painting: Quarry
Brilliant colors and the 'crazy parts of our lives.'
Painting: Totems
'All have come from a star nursery.'
Quilt: Into the mystery
A dead child's clothing transformed into a quilt.
Photograph Visual music
Capturing the music of the slot canyons of the Southwest.
Painting: Dew drops
The artist invited poets to respond to her work.
Textile: Pulpit hanging
Symbols of the world's religions.
Sculpture: In Between
Can there be such a thing as 'Unitarian art'?
Creations: Pendant
Artist learned to make her own chalice pendant.
Creations: Ostrich egg chalices
'Precious and delicate.'
Creations: Chalice cable hand warmers
Knitter's work reminded her of the flaming chalice.
Creations: 'Journey of the heart' stole
The chalice and the labyrinth.
Painting: My goddess, my love
From the stage to the canvas.
Photographic tour of Wright's Unity Temple
New book celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece for an Illinois Unitarian Universalist congregation.
Painting: Chestnut fences
A connection to the 'stream of life.'
Painting: Blue tree
Painting brings balance into my life.
The liberal saints
Andrene Kauffman’s murals in Chicago’s Third Unitarian Church honor heroes of the liberal spirit.
Painting: Blue agave
Abstractions in nature.
Painting: Low hanging fruit
Painting is where I struggle to see the world as it is.
Print: Dawn on the Stono
Any ambiguity is deliberate.
Painting: Song Sparrows in the Hosta Forest
Familiar growing, living things.
Painting: Carnival in Trinidad
Inner journeys.
Quilt: Dominion
The aquarium is submerged, its captives free.
Photographs: Hospice
Photographs of the final days of a man's life.
Painting: Perspective of the self
'A purposeful focus on what is most vital.'
Photograph: Chairs at Bodie
Capturing a human absence.
Painting: My Ostraka: History I
Reinterpretations of Athena.
Painting: The collector
Personal iconography.
Painting: Sacred words imperfect #4
Distorted, hidden, but sacred.
Collage: InterdepenDance
Found objects, discovered meanings.
Montage: Ascending
Montage of earthy spirituality.
Great art and the gods
Five-year-olds in a fine art museum.
Quilt: Great Blue rising
A heron at sunrise.
Painting: Don't fence me in
Narrative symbolism on large, colorful canvases.
Painting: Stargazing
A painting is transformed in the process.
Painting: Millennial Hope
"The hope for harmony with our diversity."
Painting: Dancing Joy
The artist seeks to "breathe out peaceful uplifting imagery."
Painting: Revelation
Truth revealed through human experience.
Sculpture: Tower of peace
A sculptor responds to 9/11.
Photograph: Dreamer 1
Nineteenth-century technique gives photo dreamlike quality.
Phoenix sculpture marks congregation's renewal
How an Atlanta congregation rebuilt itself.
Sculpture: In praise of lesser gods
Inspired by humanity.
Six UU groups make quilts for interfaith exhibit
Boston show brings diverse traditions together.
Nature reliquaries
Artist's assemblages honor nature.
Sculpture to remember
Symbolic richness in mixed media.
Thomas A Baillieul's paintings
Thomas A. Baillieul's paintings tempt viewers to tell a story.
Into the Light
An artist reflects on the view from an abandoned cellar.
Ganges dawn
India's Ganges River at first light.
Tombaugh memorial window
The Unitarian Universalist Church of Las Cruces honors a founding member's scientific achievements.
El sueño final (The final dream)
Laurel Garcia Colvin creates dreamlike images using underwater photography.
Painting: Angel trumpets ablaze
Painting is a meditative state.
Painting: Lot A, Mills Heights
Everything we do leaves a mark.
Etching: Winter Falls
The essence that sparks my sense of wonder.
