Wounded Rising by Kathy Hettinga

Passages of Time,
  A Faith Visualized

Exhibit of artworks by

Kathy T. Hettinga and
Karen L. Webb

Valentine Hall, (2nd floor)
Lutheran Theological Seminary
at Gettysburg

Seminary Ridge, Gettysburg, PA

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Fine Arts Council
Lutheran Theological Seminary
at Gettysburg
61 Seminary Ridge,
Gettysburg, PA

About the Exhibit
“Passages of Time, A Faith Visualized” Exhibit at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg October 20th

(Gettysburg, PA) “Falling into the hands of the Living God” is the way Kathy Hettinga describes her latest set of digital archival images created from birds and small animals in a desert setting. These prints and more will anchor an art exhibit at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, opening Sunday, October 20^th 4-6pm.          

The exhibit will explore religious themes under the title “Passages of Time, A Faith Visualized” and feature the artwork of Hettinga, a Professor of Art in the Visual Arts Department at Messiah College, Grantham, Pennsylvania, and Karen L. Webb, a graphic designer who teaches computer art at Elizabethtown College.  

A special opening of the exhibit, which will run until Thanksgiving, is scheduled for 4-6pm on Sunday, October 20^th, with artists’ talks scheduled at 5pm. The exhibit will take place on the 2^nd floor of Valentine Hall, the main classroom building of the Seminary. A reception during the opening will be hosted by the Seminary’s Fine Arts Council. 

Hettinga is a close observer of nature. During a stay at Christ in the Desert Monastery, she saw the way small animals and birds fell “into the hands of the living God.” She observed “some like the Robin enter with grace, some like the Thrasher, do not.” The series is printed with long lasting archival pigmented inks with a professional grade Epson printer. “Passage of Time” will also include a book project of digital images about the historic cemeteries of the desert South West.  These images “record monuments of faith in a specific time and place, and give visual form to our fragility and mortality,” she said.

Webb, a 2000 Messiah College graduate, studied computer design and art history. As her Christian faith developed, she began to explore religious themes in her art work, finding that “here I had the opportunity to integrate my two loves – my art and my faith.” Her training in computer design has opened new artistic opportunities. Webb put it, “After years of using the computer for ‘graphic design’ purposes, I revel in the freedom of approaching it from a fine art perspective.  What I love about ‘computer art’ is it’s permeable and ever-changing definition.” Webb has exhibited art in two recent Elizabethtown exhibits and before that, two Harrisburg area churches.

Leaf Icon by Karen Webb

Hettinga’s work has been in juried regional and national exhibitions, and international sites in Poland, Italy and England. Her artist's books and computer prints are in the permanent collections of the Grunewald Center for Graphic Arts, UCLA, the New York Public library and library at Yale University. She was one of the artists who contributed works to the Seminary’s April 2000 arts festival exhibit. She received her bachelors degree from Calvin College and her M.F.A. from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. 

Following the Sunday opening, the exhibit will be available during most weekday hours between 8:30am and 4:30pm.