May 2010 Icon Workshops planned

Two Icon Workshops are planned in the Diocese in May. The first will be held at St. Simon’s, Ft. Walton Beach on May 3-7. The second workshop will take place at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Pensacola, May 10 – 14.  Workshop leader Teresa Harrison, wife of Edward Harrison, former Rector of St. Christopher’s in Pensacola) and now residing in Coronado, California, is not only a noted iconographer, but a talented and sympathetic instructor as well.
Above:
The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator, encaustic on panel (Saint Catherine’s Monastery)

St. Simon’s workshop: Dates: May 3-7,  Registration Fee: $400.00.  Cost includes lunches, snacks, all materials, and hands- on instruction. You DO NOT need to have a background in art to create an icon. This is a “process” and many have been transformed by the experience.  This year we will have a choice of writing one of these icons:

• Christ Pantocrator (“The Sinai Christ”)
• Mary Virgin the Intecessor
• John the Baptist (these first three form a triptych in the Greek Orthodox Churches)
• The Archangel Gabriel.

For more information please contact:
Carol Murphy, 850-496-7723 (cell) or the office at St.Simon’s on the Sound, 850-244-8621. 
A deposit of $50.00 to reserve your place may be sent to : 
Attn: Penny/Finance
St Simon’s on the Sound Episcopal Church
28 Miracle Strip Parkway SW
Ft Walton Beach, Fl 32548
Make checks payable to SSOTS and annotate ”Icon w/s 10 ”  We really hope you can join us in this spiritual retreat and w/s.

St. Christopher’s workshop, May 10-14 includes discussion and a daily eucharist, with Fr. Eric Long, rector of St. Christopher’s, as chaplain. In the course of the workshop, a step-by-step process will result in the creation of an icon that even a beginning (I’ve never held a brush in my life”) iconographer will be happy with. Participants may choose to “write ” either an icon of Christ the Good Shepherd or of the Virgin Mary, Intercessor.

Connie Wendleton, of St. Christopher’s, is coordinator and assistant to Teresa, so please contact her for information and/or encouragement. Connie’s phone is 850-494-1262 and email: wendleton6253@aol.com. As space is limited, please contact our volunteer registrar Beth Partington of Christ Church to register. Beth can be reached at 850-572-5245 or beth-partington@cox.net. The cost of $400 covers meals –continental breakfasts and lunches– 35 hours of instruction and all materials. A non-refundable deposit of $100 is required to hold your place. Members of all faiths and churches are welcome. Please join us for this exceptional experience.