Programs
Icon Writing Workshop
Five-Day Workshop Experience
In this icon writing experience, Father Damian incorporates the study of traditional techniques, the theology and history of the Byzantine Icon, and adequate time to complete your icon. Beginning students as well as students who have completed an icon in the past are welcome. The workshop includes instruction as well as all the supplies needed. Lunch is included.
Presenter(s)
Father Abbot Damian Higgins
Father Higgins is a Ukrainian Catholic priest of the Eparchy of St. Nicholas in Chicago. He has served the church as an iconographer for over 22 years. His primary work is the painting of and the teaching about the traditional methods of egg tempera iconography in the Byzantine tradition. He seeks to give emphasis to the work of revealing the capacity of the natural materials that one works with to convey truths about the immaterial that one seeks to encounter in the sacred art of iconography.
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