Community Events

Currently on display through January 4, 2008

Erdman Art Gallery Exhibit: “Visions of Wholeness: The Arts in Mission and the Mission of Art”
Weekdays: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sunday, 2:30–9:00 p.m.
Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public

“Visions of Wholeness: The Arts in Mission and the Mission of Art” features paintings by Rosemarie Adcock, and Linnea Gabriella Spransy, presenting two different approaches exemplifying the integration of the arts and Christian outreach.

The Reverend Rosemarie Adcock’s current work is a painting series intended for large public spaces, evangelism, and dialoguing of the Old Testament narratives as types of Christ, the coming Messiah, and other symbolic painting depicting biblical principles.

Adcock is an artist, speaker, evangelist, and the founder and president of Arts for Relief and Missions, an “association of music and arts Christian professionals working in the marketplace in their field of expertise or serving in ministry in that capacity, as in the cases of ministers of music and worship leaders of associated churches.”

Linnea Gabriella Spransy’s art is informed by architecture of fractal images which serve, in her words, “as an uncanny segue between the highly abstract and physcially familiar.” Spransy is delighted to have discovered that the “two most simultaneously antagonistic and essential elements in my life—art and mission—have finally interlaced.”

This exhibit is sponsored by the Erdman Center, the Theological Students’ Fellowship, and The Women’s Center at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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January 14 through February 22, 2008

Erdman Art Gallery Exhibit: “Jalaja”
Weekdays: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sunday, 2:30–9:00 p.m.
Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public

“Jalaja” translated from Sanskrit means “Born in Water.” This exhibit features water-based medium works by Hetal Mistry. Growing up in a picturesque rural town in India, Mistry works in distinctive water-based medium media that portray moments of beauty from an idyllic world: a peasant girl striking a pose, dewdrops on a lotus leaf, a subtle ripple created by a butterfly koi, or moonlight shimmering on a hidden lake.

After completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in illustration, Mistry spent her post-graduate years mastering traditional Indian art techniques, including miniature painting, which is renowned in Rajasthan, India. Her reputation spread to Bombay (Mumbai), a major metropolis where she completed many commissioned works for several high profile clients.

Her keen eye for detail and love of nature’s abstraction has culminated in a unique style using a self-taught ink-drop technique. Pigments in water have a life of their own and form the surrealistic, vibrant backgrounds of her work. From these abstract frameworks she fleshes out her diverse subject matter using various media.

Migrating to America after marriage, Mistry has spent the last ten years as a local Princeton artist. She has had the opportunity to create renditions of some of the historical sites in the Princeton area, including Miller Chapel. Her prayer is “that by capturing a ripple in time one may realize that the world around us is the real masterpiece.’

An artist’s talk and reception for Hetal Mistry will be held on Saturday, January 19 from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Erdman Art Gallery. To view her artwork, visit http://hetalmistry.com/.

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