A young artist is giving a fresh face to some of the Catholic faith’s most beloved saints, using college roommates for models and painting on thrift shop wood.
Despite a longtime love for painting and a bachelor’s degree in studio art, Bernadette Gockowski set down her brushes after college. For nine years, she didn’t make art. When she picked them back up last year, it was begrudgingly.
The current exhibit of works by Ferdinand Delacroix and artists who flattered him by mimicking his style is worth a trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Works that tackle spiritual themes are part of a year-long art series opening Sept. 4 at the Benedictine Center at St. Paul's Monastery in the St. Paul suburb of Maplewood.
St. Thomas More Church in St. Paul has commissioned a painting of its patron saint, Sir Thomas More, for the lunette above a shrine dedicated to the 15th-century martyr.
