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Art & spirtuality: Exploring ‘The Pieta’

David Boraks — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:54:29 +0000

The Pieta by Michelangelo.

St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Davidson will host a Lenten media program Sunday night, March 27, with artist Tom Schulz exploring Michelangelo’s “Pieta.”

The program begins at 7 p.m. at St. Alban’s, 301 Caldwell Lane, off Concord Road.

Mr. Schulz will discuss the two “Pietas” Michelangelo created during his lifetime. The artist received his M.F.A from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. He has taught at Harvard University Summer School, Clark University and the School of the Museum of Fine Art.

With his wife Sheila Ennis, he has developed a unique Faith and Art curriculum. Permanent installations and collections include Rockefeller Stone Barns, New Britain Museum of American Art and the Tryon Palace.

For more information about the artist and his work, please visit Ennisart.net, Empathinc.com or Empathinc.blogspot.com.

This event is offered by St. Alban’s Spirituality and the Arts Initiative, and is free and open to the public.

Fancy a bit of organ music? Concert at St. Alban’s Sunday

David Boraks — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:27:03 +0000

Henry Lebedinsky

Henry Lebedinsky will play a solo concert of organ music from Baroque to contemporary, including works by Bach, Bruhns, Zipoli, Kuusisto, and Brosig, on Sunday, Nov. 15, at 3 p.m. at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 301 Caldwell Lane. Mr. Lebedinsky, artistic director for the Music at St. Alban’s series, will perform on St. Alban’s 1864 George Stevens Tracker, Lake Norman’s only intact 19th century pipe organ. Donations accepted at the door. All proceeds will benefit the Music at St. Alban’s series. Information: 704-941-0650.

4-poet reading at St. Alban’s on Sunday

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:13:59 +0000

Four local poets and poetry enthusiasts – the Rev. David E. Buck, Allison Elrod, L.B. Green and Tootsie O’Hara – will recite their original work on Sunday, July 26, at 7 p.m., at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 301 Caldwell Lane.

The Rev. Buck is Rector of St. Alban’s and a 1971 Davidson College graduate. He says his interest in poetry began in a freshman English class taught by poet and author Anthony S. Abbott, English professor emeritus at the college.

Ms. Elrod is a poet, essayist and freelance editor whose work draws deeply on her love of plain language and ordinary life. Her essays have appeared in The Living Church and on Charlotte public radio station, WFAE. Her poems have been recognized by the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition and the Poet Laureate Awards of the North Carolina Poetry Society. Her recent work is included in Kakalak, an Anthology of Carolina Poets

Ms. Green is writer, teacher, and painter. She worked, under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Humanities and for the White House Millennium Council, teaching students to discover their place in history and to write about it. She was awarded the Robert Ruark Foundation Prize for Poetry. She is the author of Judas Trees North of the House, winner of the Randall Jarrell Award for a poetry chapbook. Her prose and poems appear in newspapers, anthologies, and literary journals including Southern Review, Penwood Review, Cold Mountain Review, and Rhino. Night Garden, a full-length poetry collection, was published in April 2009. She is the recipient of fellowships in literature for poetry from the North Carolina Arts Council, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the MacDowell Colony.

Love of language, especially poetry, has led Ione (Tootsie) O’Hara into many writing and teaching experiences. In 2004, she received an Arts & Science Council Artist’s Grant. The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts awarded her a residency to complete her chapbook, A Passing Certainty. She has taught at UNC Charlotte, CPCC, and Queens University’s Life Long Learning Center.

The event is free. St. Alban’s is off Concord Road east of downtown Davidson.