Dei Gratia: ‘by the grace of God’
This tells how I was formed and called to make sacred art for the Church. Details of each project are available on the work page.
Born in 1984, I received my BFA in painting and minor in creative writing from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2013, and my MFA in painting from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2016. I am currently artist-in-residence at St. Gregory’s Hall where I teach workshops on sacred art, and I live and work in Chicago where I have also taught as a part-time lecturer at SAIC in the Painting and Drawing Department.
I entered the Holy Roman Catholic Church at Saint John Cantius Church on the Great Easter Vigil of 2017. Since, I have begun to follow the call to use my talents to serve Mother Church, and it is my humble prayer to give glory to God by the work of my hands.
“My God, I give thanks to you, my source of sweet delight, and my glory and my confidence. I thank you for your gifts. Keep them for me, for in this way you will keep me. The talents you have given will increase and be perfected, and I will be with you since it was your gift to me that I exist.”
— Saint Augustine The Confessions