Hinds Gallery: St. John's Bible
September 28th - October 31st
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The Saint John’s Bible is the first commissioned handwritten, monumental, illuminated Bible in the modern era. This contemporary Bible was created by a group of 23 scribes, artists and assistants in a Scriptorium in Wales under the artistic direction of Donald Jackson, Senior Scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Office at the House of Lords. The team worked in conjunction with a committee of theologians, scholars and artists from Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota. After fifteen years of work, the pages were completed in 2011 and given a permanent home at Saint John’s Abbey and University. The Saint John’s Bible incorporates many of the characteristics of its medieval predecessors: it was written on vellum using quills, natural handmade inks, hand ground pigments and gild such as gold leaf, silver leaf and platinum. Yet, it employs the modern, English translation the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) as well as contemporary scripts and illuminations. The prints displayed in this gallery showcase a small sampling of the approximately 160 illuminations in the completed work. |
CREATION
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Dugan Gallery: Paula Wallace
Paintings and Illustrations
Paintings and Illustrations
"daughter of Jerusalem"
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 "boy in a ochre cap"
Paula S. Wallace Artist & Illustrator Artist and author, Paula Wallace, spends most days in her studio at the Hot Shops Art Center in Omaha, Nebraska. Wallace, a graduate of the University of Iowa, recalls a professor once saying, “The artist’s job is to pay attention.” Paying attention assures her art and stories are informed by her arts outreach with people of all ages and abilities, as well as the vastness of the Nebraska landscape. Wallace has illustrated for other authors, as well as writing and illustrating her own books, including Choose Your Days (Cinco Puntos Press) and Mr. Reginald and the Bunnies (Pomegranate.) Choose Your Days won the Nebraska Children’s Picture Book Award and represented Nebraska at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. in 2018. Her book, Mr. Reginald and the Bunnies, was a finalist for the 2019 Children’s Picture Book Illustration Award from Foreward Reviews and, most recently, was acquired by publishers for print in Europe and Russia. Wallace’s work as a fine artist includes many gallery exhibits in the United States and Italy. Her work is held in private collections internationally. Hot Shops Art Center Studio 100 1301 Nicholas Street Omaha, Nebraska 68102 +1 773 750 2263 paulaswallace@gmail.com paulawallacefineart.com |