RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK - #AOP2018 WINNER
ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
Yesterday, we gathered with family in Cleveland for the funeral of our Aunt Carlene Britton (1945-2018). It’s been that kind of fall. So, it’s fitting that today’s art of the week is a visual poem for the dead. This week, we also announced that Alpha Omega Arts followers selected printmaker John Gutoskey as recipient of the Alpha Omega Prize for promoting religious dialogue. His monoprint honors the 49 souls massacred in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016. That makes John Gutoskey’s “Pulse Nightclub: 49 Elegies” our art of the week.
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
"PULSE Nightclub: 49 Elegies" by John Gutoskey selected for the 2018 Alpha Omega Prize for contemporary religious art |
- Monday's Artist of the Day: Mark Bradford [More News]
- Tuesday's Artist of the Day: Kehinde Wiley [More News]
- Wednesday's Artist of the Day: Charles White [More News]
- Thursday's Artist of the Day: Pieter Bruegel [More News]
- Friday's Artist of the Day: Emily Shur [More News]
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Aunt Carlene and Uncle Charlie at party |
Aunt Carlene and her son, cousin Michael Britton at his wedding a while back |
Cousin Michael, and his dad, Charles Britton at Michael's wedding |
Uncle Charlie and cousin Michael at funeral home on Sat., Nov. 3, 2018 |
Family photo in entry of funeral home on Sat., Nov. 3, 2018 |
Family photo in entry of funeral home on Sat., Nov. 3, 2018 (We are in the last row...fuzzy) |
Left to Right: Two longtime friends of Aunt Carlene, and Uncle Charlie and cousin Gina, his oldest daughter on Sat., Nov. 3, 2018 |