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July 15 2008 at 12:02 pm

The Artists Behind the Murals

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QUESTION: “I love the new web site. I had a few questions. What were the names of the two artists who painted the beautiful murals for the Sunday sermons? I know the last one was done by Zak Parsons. What was the name of the first artist? Thanks for continually blessing our family with sound teaching which is relevant to our daily walk with the Lord.”—Amy Gurtshaw

ANSWER: Amy, thanks for your question. I’m really excited about the murals we’re doing on Sundays to accompany the “Don’t Waste Your…” series. When our Sunday team planned this teaching series we thought that giving artists in our church the chance to create pieces of art based on each topic would enable them to put their artistic gifts to work to serve the church and “practice” what we’re preaching about.

This past week as you mentioned, Zak Parsons did the mural for humor pictured above. Zak studied at The School of Art and Design at Montgomery College and enjoys doing grafitti and abstract art, the Dada style and collage work.

The first week’s image (pictured below) was created by Hannah Kim. Hannah is also on staff at the church as our graphic designer. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design with a concentration in Industrial Design, working as a product designer before making the switch to graphic design to work at the church. She enjoys drawing from life and nature, digital art and designing jewelry on the side.  All the design you see on printed pieces like our handouts, invitations to series and ministry logos are created by Hannah. She just redesigned our weekly announcements, which I really like. She’s also coordinating all the artists who are creating murals. (Note: if you’re an artist, please drop Hannah a note so that we’re aware of you for future projects!)

I hope you’ll enjoy the upcoming murals. We’ll post them here each week. Please free to post a comment for Hannah or Zak, as well as the other artists participating in coming weeks.





Thank you, Hannah and Zak, for using your talents to the glory of God and for blessing our church with your artwork! Thank you for bringing your gifts into the house of the Lord.

By Katherine T on 07/17/2008
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