Wayne Roosa
The title, “Thin Places,” refers to those sites, sounds, and encounters where the veil between inner/outer, earthly/spiritual, mundane/ magical seems to dissolve. Artists have been grappling with this topic to produce work for this, Spirit of the Wilderness Episcopal Church’s 10th annual art show, which opens Saturday, March 16, at The Johnson Heritage Post.
Work by local artists and by students from local schools will be shown.
From 5 p.m., refreshments will be served and jazz guitarist Fred Anderson will play. From 6-7 p.m., art historian Wayne Roosa will present on “The Forms of Things Unknown: Artists Exploring ‘Thin Places.’”
Roosa describes his presentation: In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare wrote, “And as imagination bodies forth/The form of things unknown, the poet’s pen/Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing/A local habitation and a name.”
Visual artists, too, have used the artist’s brush, chisel, pencil, film and print to give visible form to what the imagination, soul and heart can see. This lecture explores many artists who have sought to give form to what is deeply felt in those “thin places” of the imagination.
Roosa is an engaging presenter, and we’ll have a great opportunity to explore this topic together.
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