UUFA News

Welcome Hall Gallery: Ynza Morganstar  – Totems  

An opening reception will be held on August 14th.  Ynza will be available in the Welcome Hall after the service and discuss her work.

Curator’s notes: Some time ago, in a casual conversation, I asked Ynza if she created art. Ynza said she did.  She had always wanted to create art but time and tide had meant she never attended art classes. Recently, she decided to just go ahead and make art on her own. What you see here are Ynza’s early products of intentional art. Her choices of forms, colors, and combinations are carefully chosen to show how she relates art to her life and to the world.

Read Ynza’s own explanations of each small, individual piece and of the groupings and ‘totems’ into which they gather.

Consider your own creative possibilities. Do you draw or paint or sculpt, the traditional visual arts? Do you doodle? Perhaps you knit or sew? Crochet? Quilt? Carve? Make furniture? Do you write poetry, stories?  Do you make music or sing?  There are a myriad of ways we express ourselves creatively.

We hope this exhibition encourages you to create.

Upcoming


 

April

  • 25th – Opening Reception (Robert and Claire Clements Art Gallery)
  • 25th – Coffeehouse (Variety Show) add link to sign up
  • 26th –  Lesbian Visibility Day (UUA Day of Observance)
  • 26th – St. James Baptist Church Cemetery Work Day
  • 27th – Board Town Hall on the Budget and Bylaws  (in the Fellowship Hall) 
  • 27th – Claiming Our Power:  Making Good Trouble for Climate Justice
  • 29th – UUA Congregation Study/Action Issue Feedback Session

May

  •  3rd – Athens Black Market (AADM Justice Partner event)
  •  3rd – UUFA Coven Beltane outdoors/indoors  2-4 p.m.
  •  4th – First Sunday Forum 
  •  4th – Bridging (youth and YA)
  •  4th – Social Justice Action Team (SJAT)
  •  4th Historical Jesus Book Discussion Group 
  •  5th – UUA Congregational Study Action Issue Feedback Session
  •  8th — Racial Justice Team (Virtual) 
  • 11th – Bob Clements Art Show at the State Botanical Gardens 
  • 16th – Next Bigger Vision Meal Provided by UUFA 
  • 16th– AIRC General Meeting (invitation from SJAT)
  • 18th–Third Sunday Forum: Community Accompaniment Program with Asylum Seekers (CAPAS)
  • 18th – UUFA Annual Meeting
  • 25th – start of Family Promise Week (partnering with Holy Cross Lutheran Church)
  • 25th– 2024-25 Common Read Discussion (noon)

June

  • 1st – First Sunday Forum
  • 1st – Point of Pride postcard making
  • June 7:  Pride Parade and Pride Festival
  • 8th – Oatmeal breakfast
  • 13th– Next Bigger Vision Meal Provided by UUFA 
  • 13th – Book signing for Rev. Brandan Robertson’s forthcoming book, Queer and Christian: Reclaiming Our Bible, Our Faith, and Our Place at the Table (SJAT + Alphabet Fam sponsoring)
  • 15th – Third Sunday Forum:  Meet Your Justice Partner: AADM
  • 29th – Circle dance

August

  • 24th – start of Family Promise Week (partnering with Holy Cross Lutheran Church)

November

  • 9th – start of Family Promise Week (partnering with Holy Cross Lutheran Church)