Church Community Crafts
Crown Hill Church — Stained Glass Angel Wings
Advent 2023
For our church’s advent theme of 2023, “Light in the Darkness,” I created a stained glass window craft that would transform with the sunlight that passes across the south facing windows in our church sanctuary during our morning services. Throughout each week of advent everyone in the service — kids and adults alike — was invited to color a feather highlighting a brief phrase for the theme of the week (“God Surprises,” “God Hears,” “God Sees,” “God Provides”). Each feather ended up being unique and beautiful, representing the individuals in the beautiful community of this church. These feathers, printed and colored on marker paper to enhance their transparency, were used to create a set 4 unique and luminous sets of wings.
In a surprise discovery, the reverse welcomed us for the Christmas Eve service with the light from the inside shining out.
Crown Hill Church — Mary’s Song Baby Blanket
Advent 2021
In 2021, our church focused on Mary’s Song (The Magnificat from the gospel of Luke). To honor this, I proposed creating a baby blanket, symbolizing our anticipation of welcoming baby Jesus into our midst. Each week, I represented a theme from the song with an animal (joy = sparrow, strength = elephant, God lifts the lowly = ant, faithfulness = dog). Everyone in our church, regardless of age, was invited to draw, color, and reflect on iron-on sheets featuring these animals. Once completed, each animal was ironed onto a square, contributing to a quarter of the baby blanket. The finished blanket was then donated to Mary’s Place, a transitional housing program, in Seattle.
John Knox Presbyterian Church — Cross[roads] Community Art
2017
In 2017, I participated in the Cascadia Residency program — a program developed to enhance the connections between artists and church communities. I was paired with John Knox Presbyterian Church in Burien, WA. As a part of this residency, I organized a community art workshop where participants aged 7 to retired were invited to express their journey with this particular church using collage materials and paint. Their individual pieces, when combined, formed a large wooden structure mirroring the church sanctuary’s architectural ceiling design. Named “Crossroads,” it symbolized how diverse individuals and experiences come together to shape a church community.