The Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church’s
Thoughtful Christians’ Class
Presents
An Art Forum
“Art and Spirituality”
Including Biblical/Spiritual Paintings by Lu Lan
and Stained Glass by Sally Avignone
Come explore with working artists how their different styles of art help to broaden understandings of the Holy Spirit and serve as revelations of God in today’s world.
In Geneva Hall
(Room 250, second floor of the Education Building)
The Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church
One Chevy Chase Circle NW
Washington, DC 20015
202.363.2202
December 3rd, 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. -- Lu Lan,
December 10th, 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. -- Lu Lan and Sally Avignone,
December 17th, 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. -- Sally Avignone
Free Parking Available
About the Artists
Lu Lan was born in Nanjing, Mainland China in 1972, where she grew up in a family that encouraged her to study and do artist work. She graduated from Nanjing College of Arts, receiving a Bachelor’s degree, and, after graduation, worked for the Amity Christian Art Center for five years doing Biblical Story Painting.Lu Lan has attended the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC and received a Master of Theological Studies in Religion and Art in May 2002.She has had an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at the Henry Luce III Center for Art and Religion at Wesley. Lu Lan has had solo exhibitions in Washington, as well as Hildesheim, Germany, Kyoto, Hakone and Tokyo, Japan, and has been in group shows at Arts on Foot, Celebration for Women in Edison Gallery and Dadian Gallery in Washington; See Spot Gallery in Ithaca, NY and also at National Historical Art Museum in Vienna, Austria, and The First Chinese Christian Art Exhibition in China.
Her art has been influenced by Chinese traditional pattern, form and style and also by some of the Chinese minority art. In these paintings she uses bright colors, vivid images and traditional costumes, which convey a Chinese message in a visual context.
Sally Campbell Avignone has served as Artist-in-Residence in Stained Glass at the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C., teaching seminarians about the creative process and how it serves the individual and the worshipping community.
While living in Europe in the 1970s, Sally learned the traditional art and craft of stained glass from studios practicing the art very much as it had been in centuries past. Upon returning to the United States, she established her own studio from which she has taken commissions for twenty-five years. In addition to on-site installations of stained glass for homes and businesses, she has created freestanding works in both stained and etched glass. Most recently,the focus of her work has been art for sacred spaces.