Indiana's Linda Witte Henke in "The Art of the Passion"

STUDIO NEWS | TRIDUUM 2013
By Linda Witte Henke

INDIANA --- "The Art of the Passion" is an invitational exhibition featuring artists' interpretations of the Stations of the Cross. It is sponsored by and held at Saint Paul Lutheran Church, 2029 South State Road 39, in Frankfort, IN, during Holy Week. My work (above), titled Cross WORD, depicts Station #12: Jesus Dies on the Cross. The seven background panels were constructed from manifold layers of opaque and translucent fabrics, tissue paper, newspapers, pages from discarded bibles, old sheet music, handwritten text of the four Passion accounts, screen-printed versions of the Seven Last Words in English and Greek, etc., that were stitched together, then slashed and coarsely frayed to reveal glimpses of the layers. A three-dimensional corpus constructed from fiber and metal completes the work. A video pilgrimage of the exhibition is available here.
The exhibition hours for Art of the Passion are Passion Sunday from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.; Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.; and Holy Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The 2013 Art of the Passion will be open March 24th – 30th (exhibit hours listed below) and will feature the following artists:

• Linda Witte Henke | Mixed Media 
• Wayne Shedler | Leather Work 
• Ed Selvidge | Painting 
• Stephanie Robertson | Fabric 
• Mirvia Rivera-Eckert | Acrylic Painting 
• Ann Lahr | Wood Fired Ceramic 
• Barbara Kinsler | Block Print 
• Cheryl Kaldahl 
• Elias Garza | Mixed Media/Block Printing 
• Lauren Ehrman | Block Print 
• Daniel Driggs | Acrylic Painting 
• Bill Dahman | Sculpture 
• Ann Dahman | Color Etching on Granite 
• Dwayne Daehler | Photography 
• Marge Burkholder 

You can read more about these artists and follow the event on the Art of the Passion Facebook page!