Creative Works

About the Meeting - Creative Works

Here are a few samples of the diverse ways members of the Cincinnati Friends Meeting use their creative gifts.

Visual Arts

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Franchot Ballinger is a musician, writer, and woodcarver who creates hiking staffs, both decorative and useful. His poems have appeared in many poetry journals and online, and he is the author of Living Sideways: Tricksters in American Indian Oral Traditions, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. He also performs on Native American flutes and has recorded a CD, Quiet Heart.

Joan Effertz is a local artist with several public exhibitions of her work. The images below are from a show of her botanical monotypes at the Civic Garden Centre, which was up through August, 2006. They will also appear in the October volume of "The Artist Magazine." She was the featured cover artist for the June 2006 issue of "Natural Living Healthy Living." The artist can be contacted at joan.effertz@gmail.net.

Collin and Audrey Taylor are a married team of potters who together established Union's Bloom Pottery in Kentucky. They have been making and selling work throughout the Midwest for the last six years. See their artist statement, blog, and more of their handmade stoneware and other crafts on their site, http://unionsbloom.com.

Michelle Clement paints small-scale watercolors, makes jewelry, felts, and does collage. She can be reached at 2clement02@copper.net.

Dan Kasztelan, a photographer by training, was pastor of Cincinnati Friends Meeting from 1999 to July of 2008. Most photographs on this website are courtesy of Dan. More of his work can be seen on his site, http://pinnacleroad.org. An archive of Dan's sermons is also available.

Writings

let's live suddenly without thinking --Amanda Wheelock's blog

rawness of remembering --Matthew Wheelock's blog

Email us if you are a member of our extended community and would like to share your artistic or writing gifts on this page.

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