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Painting an icon can be a compelling experience. Using techniques developed at the end of the Iconoclast period (before the year 1000 A.D.), the painter sees a face gradually emerge from the darkness, a face glowing with an internal light.

It is humbling to experience this process and to realize that it has less to do with your ability to paint than with your willingness to let go and trust. All are invited to experience this joy, whether or not you have previous art experience.

Students can choose to create either an icon of the Holy Trinity based on the famous Rublev icon or an icon of the Korsun Mother of God. Icons will be made using the traditional materials of egg tempera and gold leaf on gessoed panels.

This is a workshop framed with and permeated by prayer and worship, beginning with a daily early morning Eucharist. Time in the studio begins with an anointing of hands. Noonday prayers are said before lunch and each day ends with evening prayer in Kanuga's Chapel of the Transfiguration. There also can be time for walking in the woods, chatting with friends over coffee or reading a book by the fire. Come join us for a week of painting, prayer and fun!

About the staff

INSTRUCTOR: Suzanne Schleck of Whiting, N.J., returns for her sixth year of teaching icon painting at Kanuga. A public school art teacher, she has studied for 20 years with the Rev. John Walsted, master iconographer and expert on 14th to 16th century Russian icons, and has taken additional workshops with Robert Lentz and with the Prosopon School of Iconography. In 2000, she received a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to further her studies in icon painting.

Her work has been published in Episcopal Life and in several online exhibits with Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts, as well as in the "Visual Preludes" for the 2006 General Convention. She also was featured as one of 17 artists in the new Visio Divina Visual Preludes Resource Guide and participated in the 2007 Prosopon School show, "In the Image and Likeness," at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, N.J.

CHAPLAIN: The Rev. Valerie Redpath is a graduate of General Theological Seminary and serves as the rector at St. James Church, an Anglo-Catholic parish in Long Branch, N.J.

Cost
Double Occupancy	$790 per person Includes program, lodging, meals and use of recreational facilities.
Single Occupancy	$1,000 per person Includes same as above. (Based on availability)
Commuter	$600 per person Includes program, lunches, suppers and use of recreational facilities. (For residents of Henderson, Transylvania, Polk, Rutherford, Buncombe, Haywood or Greenville counties only)
Payment
Deposit	$100 per person Nonrefundable. Nontransferable. Deposit deducted from total fee.
Balance Due	January 6 (To register after this date, please send a check or use a credit card for the full amount.)
Start/End Times
Check-In	4-6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6
Check-Out	After breakfast Friday, Feb. 12
Conference Registration
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