Dorothy Day
1897–1980
Journalist and founder of the Catholic Worker Movement who named the forces behind poverty, and refused to call any of it inevitable.
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Most people who fight for the poor do it from a distance. Dorothy Day moved in. A journalist and radical turned Catholic convert, she didn't open shelters and go home - she lived in them, ate in them, slept in them, for decades, by choice.
But what she was building was never just a soup kitchen. The Catholic Worker Movement was a complete rejection of the world as it was - its capitalism, its wars, its habit of measuring human worth by productivity. She offered something else: voluntary poverty, nonviolence, and the idea that anything beyond what you immediately need belongs to someone who goes without.
She made everyone uncomfortable - governments, bishops, radicals alike. She built a newspaper and over 200 communities still operating today, still run on the same radical idea that social change happens person to person, not through institutions or policy, but through direct, voluntary, personal solidarity.
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The Artist
Following a bout with the Big C over 15 years ago, I began to see the world in vivid COLOR! Having always been a creative soul, but one who held back, I realized that I had nothing to lose. Never too far from my consciousness is the awareness that life is fleeting and that the moment is NOW. It is this wisdom that fuels the fantastic working groove from which my paintings emerge. In the last several years, I have loved playing in the realm of the abstract using oil, oil crayon, and cold wax medium. Every color in the spectrum makes an appearance on the surface. Scratching and drawing back in to the paint gives the work extra dimension. I can't get enough of this process! In addition, I am still working on my acrylic "people and places" paintings! Creating quirky, folky images illustrating the culture and people from around the US has been a cornerstone of my work for over 10 years! Celebrations of gratefulness, clarity, color, compassion, music, spiritual journeys, life, and death give these paintings their spark and timelessness.
