Tomorrow is
EARTHDAY and I found an amazing
artist to celebrate this day with her
beautiful icons, featuring animals. ANGELA MANNO is an internationally exhibited
artist and educator who has been exploring the pattern that connects personal
and planetary healing for over thirty years. She studied Earth Literacy at
Genesis Farm, an ecological learning center dedicated to understanding the
Universe and Earth as a single, unfolding process, and holds a Bachelor’s
degree in French and English from Bard
College.
She studied
at the San Francisco Art Institute, Parson’s School
of Design and l’Ecole des Arts in
Lacoste, France. She was trained by a
contemporary master of batik, the late Jyotirindra Roy and studied the ancient
liturgical art of Byzantine-Russian iconography.
Her award-winning
art resides in private collections throughout the Americas,
Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia and in such prestigious venues as the
National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington,
D.C, the Smithsonian Institution, the American
Museum of Natural History in New York City and museums from Mexico
City to Moscow
In 1988, Angela
was commissioned by NASA to commemorate the U.S. return to space flight with
the launch of Discovery, the first after the Challenger accident.
She is the only female visual artist selected for this honor. Other
artists to capture the novelty of space travel for the space agency include,
Norman Rockwell, Robert Rauschenberg and James Wyeth. Her artwork is part
of the permanent NASA space art collection at the Kennedy Space
Center.
Her “Endangered
Species,” a series of artworks of threatened and endangered species painted in
the style of Byzantine icons, explores the environmental crisis and extinction.
In an interview with Treehugger, Angela says, “I hope that my work conveys
the feeling that all life is sacred. That my viewers feel remorse at the
thoughtless decimation of species and habitat, and are moved to action to
preserve what is left.”In May
2022, Angela was commissioned by the Vatican Dicastery on Integral Human
Development to create an audio-visual program to open Laudato Si’ Week 2022,
the seven-year anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking encyclical. The
program, “Responding to the Cry of the Earth”, featured images from her series Contemporary
Icons of Endangered Species and appeared on computer screens around the world
as part of the global event “No More Biodiversity Collapse: Rebalancing Social
Systems with Nature”.
Icons: All egg
tempera and gold leaf on wood
Top- Chambered Nautilus
Right- Honey Bee
Left- Emperor Penguin
Right- Marsupial Frog
Hi, I have visited Lourdes likely 20 times and will continue to . It is about 450 mile rt from where we live.. People would ask me at the Grotte of Bernadette if the water was okay to drink and I had to realize that the mother of Jesus gave us this wonderful water but they came to worship her, of which I am certain it was not her intention. Likewise , this year I am to relaize the same at the "miracle of the sun" Where the mother of Jesus had 3 farm children gather 70,000 witness's to watch the miracle of the sun. This for scientists would be easy to explain only if they excluded that the farm children were the ones to gather the witness's.. BUT, at Fatima there is no reference to the miracle of the sun anywhere except for one small place, which is at the guided only museum and only if you watch the film .Otherwise there is no reference to the miracle at all anywhere. It did help me cement the idea that when Jesus said that money is the root of all that is evil, he said that evil only exists because of a value system and the clever apostles omitted just one word to not only change the entire meaning but to give us the society we have today right now. . That money is the root of evil.. Which brings me to Hildegard, a woman that knows everything a thousand years ago and that she denounced the Cathar people I do not believe at all . She was someone that did encompass everyone as Jesus did, unlike the apostles who time after time were shown, but could not see.And that is how I found your page here. Cheers, John
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