The White Meeting House in Waterbury Presents Colchester artist Carol MacDonald
“Spiritual Threads” features the drawings, paintings and prints of Carol MacDonald. MacDonald’s award-winning work is organized around images of knitting. By closely examining the object of knitting, MacDonald draws the viewer to actually look at the process and its connections to the lives we metaphorically knit together.
“As I work with patterns, opening up parts, microcosms emerge,” MacDonald explains. “The structures become cellular or skeletal in nature or take on their own sculptural shapes. It shows us beauty in its most essential form.”
This is the third exhibit the White Meeting House has mounted. Many of the church’s members are painters, writers, musicians, woodworkers or textile folks themselves and wanted to share their joy in the visual arts with others. About a year ago, they installed picture rail in the beautiful and light-filled sanctuary. In choosing exhibits, the organizers have tried to find work that is thought provoking but not specifically religious.
Ms. MacDonald’s work certainly fits that bill. She says, “Knit pattern is created from a single strand, at times mistakes are made, the pattern unravels and becomes a tangled mess or can be reformed into a new pattern. These are all metaphors for our life and spiritual process.”
For more information about Carol MacDonald’s work, visit her website carolmacdonald.com
For more information about this event or the exhibit, feel free to contact exhibit organizer Torrey Smith at 244-8581 or call the church directly at 244-6606.
Opening Reception with artist’s talk and light refreshments: March 30 @ 11:15am
The show will remain up and open to the public during business hours for most of April.
The opening and ongoing exhibit are free and open to the public.