It’s 2024 and the art installations at our church have continued, and I have continued to manage the team.
In 2023 we made installations for Easter and Christmas.
For easter we made very large semi-abstract artworks out of paper, inspired by Matisse. It was lovely to see the other ladies of the team come up with the idea and enact it. As manager I primarily concern myself with building and caring for the team, starting each project with enough time to complete it, and providing an administrative umbrella under which the other members of the team can use their creative gifts to serve God and their church community.
Christmas 2023 involved five cardboard/paper cutout layered artworks lit up inside boxes. We ‘unwrapped’ one each Sunday of December, with the final one being unwrapped Christmas Day. I actually did more drawing for this project than I had for any of them, which was enjoyable. Each artwork paired scenes from Christmas stories with titles of Jesus.
And for easter 2024 we decided to do something completely different and built an almost-life-sized tomb out of donated and recycled materials. It was a hit!
As this installation was the most robust out of everything we have made so far, there is talk of lending it out to other churches for their use in coming years.
