Coming Next To the Gallery
Mixed Media by Lauren Bleam
Lauren Bleam, featured artist
Lauren Bleam is an artist, writer and creative educator living in Richmond, Va. Her work focuses on family history, trauma, healing and transformation through a lens of faith. She shows stages of the grieving and healing process through her work, incorporating mixed media to show the layers of emotion. In addition, she uses found materials to show the redemption of discarded items (“lost causes”) and to evoke a feeling of child-like wonder.
With guest artist,
Joanne Martin
Joanne Martin is a pastor, clinical social worker and the founder of Brendan House, a house of spiritual renewal for makers & artists devoted to joyful, utter abandonment to Jesus Christ through prayerful use of making and the arts. After many years in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she relocated to Virginia last summer and currently lives at Benediction Farm in Madison County. Through many different types of projects, she seeks to be a deployable creative resource for the kingdom of God in the areas of healing and discipleship.
