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Earth Month Gallery
Thank you to the artists who submitted pieces of art sharing their love of the Earth, critique on injustice, and hope for tomorrow.
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Click on the pieces below to see the piece and description.
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Voting has closed. The winners were: April Sedall, Dr. Rohany Nayan, and Dan Huntsha. Winners will receive a gift basket of Faith in Place goodies!
#1 By Patty Colabuono
This newly emerged monarch butterfly is resting on a milkweed plant. While monarchs feed on the nectar of many flowers, they will only lay their eggs on milkweeds. Good reason to add milkweed plants to your summer garden!
#2 Neurographic Art Tree by April Sedall
Neurographic Art Tree with a tire swing of my youth.
#3 A Justice Monoprint by April Sedall
I carved this design from a piece of linoleum and then inked it with a brayer to create this print. I did this in the summer of 2020 when more people were finally making the connection between environmental and social justice. I have always loved the earth and people and this little piece is emblematic of the activism I have now embraced.
#4 Reflections of Green by Sann Rene Glaza
A photograph I took in the Black Forest in Germany. This lake was incredibly peaceful and reflects the importance of saving our trees and the green in our world.
#5 Iowa Wildflower Bouquet by Carlie Hamilton
This is a watercolor painting on acid free paper showcasing the beauty and diversity of Iowa prairie and woodland flowers. See more of Carlie's art: www.carliehamiltonartist.com
#6 Wisconsin Forest Flowers by Gene Hamilton
From a waterfalls series, this painting on canvas offers the viewer a moment to pause and find peace. See more at by Gene: www.genehamiltonartist.com
#7 Sunrise on the Sunflowers by Sann Rene
Oil on Canvas painting, "Sunrise over the Sunflowers" - this scene is from a farm field in Hoeilaart Belgium where I am living now. It reminded me of my friends from KU in Kansas and how beautiful this planet we live on can be.
#8 By Susan Klein
When the often-toxic repercussions of social media have ceased (and buried), we pray that all of nature will survive and thrive. Direct Method mosaic: "Commune with Nature", 5"x7", made of Smalti Italian glass, slate, stone, lava rock and obsidian.
#9 By Beth Satterthwaite
Three original screen print designs on vintage dictionary print paper. Cicada, honey bee, and dragonfly in black ink. Black mat with wood frame. Original designs, and painted onto silkscreens for printing.
#10 By Ellie Dunham
This is a pencil and watercolor drawing of a Physalis alkekengi, or winter cherry, a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
#11 By Leslie Lopez
Represents that after a difficult time in your life better things will come.
#12 Plarning for the Planet by Rohany Nay
Each PLARN (plastic yarn) Mat represents an individual’s and community action, symbolically and literally through the different colors and designs used. The mat raises awareness on these following issues: plastic bags waste, homelessness, helping neighbors and others by repurposing and upcycling to temporarily save these bags out of the landfill waste system, etc. This is part of my project "Plarn Sleeping Mat: Conserve, Crochet, Care" where we collect recyclable plastic bags and crochet them into a 6X3 feet sleeping mat to be distributed to our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness.
#13 By Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure
This piece was created out of a frustration with the current state of the world and more personally in my own backyard. I speak upon food insecurity, gun violence, racial disparity and the political nature we are facing. I want better for my children and their children. I just don't know how we can achieve this with the world in its current state.
#14 By Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure
This piece was created out of a frustration with the current state of the world and more personally in my own backyard. I speak upon food insecurity, gun violence, racial disparity and the political nature we are facing. I want better for my children and their children. I just don't know how we can achieve this with the world in its current state.
#15 By Ja Nelle Davenport-Pleasure
This piece was created out of a frustration with the current state of the world and more personally in my own backyard. I speak upon food insecurity, gun violence, racial disparity and the political nature we are facing. I want better for my children and their children. I just don't know how we can achieve this with the world in its current state.
#16 I can Do Something by Dan Huntsha
My original art inspired by a quote by Minister Edward Everette Hale, "I am only one, but I am one, I can not do everything, but I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." Full quote runs around the earth starting in the lower left, small parts of the quote radiate out from the Earth. In some places I changed the words radiating outwards to, "We Will," or "Together we will" as it is really through only collective action that be bring about climate justice.
#17 By Thomas Frerk
Created and curated with 50 plus children and adults and measures 5ft x 13ft plus. Participants were asked to choose a favorite image from nature, plant, insect, animal etc. The first is a normal depiction, the second a outline representing the extinction, loss or absence.
#18 By Thomas Frerk
This is a warning of the changing landscape due to global warming.
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