Unity Church of Tucson

IN SEPTEMBER…

Born a son of Virginia, Stu Jenks has lived in Upstate New York, the Piedmont of North Carolina and for the last 20 years, in Southern Arizona.

For the past number of years he has been exploring in his photography the symbols of the Circle, the Hoop, and the Spiral; creating them in sand, in flame, in Christmas light, in time.

Stu said, “Each time I shoot, I learn a little more about the space I’m in, both emotionally internal to my experiences, and physically external to my environment. My images are often as much about an exploration of my spiritual reality, as they are about an appreciation of form, space, place and design. And sometimes they are just about being playful and magical.”

Stu loves cats, bluegrass, the New Moon sky and the Full Moon Earth. He uses an old Rollei, a not-so-old Pentax and a cardboard Pinhole Camera constructed by his father. Stu shoots exclusively with Ilford products and prints his images on Ilford and Fuji papers. He loves the Light in the Eye and tends to appreciate the Mystery. The title of this show is A Very Large God. For more information about Stu please check out www.stujenks.com or blog:http://stujenks.typepad.com.

IN OCTOBER…

This October marks Kathy Lee Armstrong’s eighth annual showing at Unity of Tucson. She has titled this show Critter Craze owing to the preponderance of animal-themed paintings included. This show also highlights an exciting new multi-layered technique which makes the images seem to pop from the background. She has been refining this technique since shortly before last year’s show and is very pleased with the results. Of course, there will be examples of Kathy’s plant-themed paintings and pen and ink drawings which have been so popular in past years.

Kathy was born in San Francisco, California. As a child, she doodled, sketched and cartooned the plants and animals around her. She moved to Tucson in 1981and though no environment could be more different than her native San Francisco, Kathy immediately picked up on the fascinating variety of plants, animals and atmospheres available in the Sonoran Desert. Whether expressed as lush, tropical plantscapes or as harsh, sun-baked desert scenes, her work exudes an uncanny mixture of respect for the subject, awareness of the feel of the environment, an extraordinary sense of color and a vestige of a cartoonist’s whimsy. She will be available 9:00 am till 12:30 pm each Sunday in October. Her work is also available at www.chorizosprings/plantasies.com or email at plantasies@cox.net.