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| Dimensions | 11 X 12 |
| Publisher | Conciliar Press |
| SKU | 007884 |
Product Description
The 2010 Icon Calendar from Conciliar Press features icons of women saints by three contemporary iconographers from North America: Michael Kapeluck, Matthew Garret, and Cheryl Ann Pituch.
The full-color calendar measures 11" X 12" and features large calendar boxes (1-3/8" X 1-3/4") for recording your important date reminders and lists major saint and feast days traditionally celebrated in Orthodox countries around the world (dates are according to the new calendar).
January:
St. Xenia of St. Petersburg
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garret
February:
St. Brigid of Kildare
Icon by the hand of Cheryl Pituch
March:
The Conversation of the Lord with the Woman of Samaria (St. Photini)
Icon by the hand of Cheryl Pituch
April:
Myrrhbearing Women
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garrett
May:
St. Helen
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garrett
June:
Yaroslavl Mother of God
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garrett
July:
St. Elizabeth the New Martyr
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garrett
August:
Holy Martyr Natalia of Nicomedia
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
September:
Righteous Ancestor Anna
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
October:
The Creation of Our Foremother Eve
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
November:
Great Martyr Katherine of Alexandria<
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
December:
Great Martyr Anastasia, Deliverer from Potions
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
Michael Kapeluck (Carnegie, PA; www.archangelicons.com)
Michael was born on July 12, 1963, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Stephen and Beverly Kapeluck. He is a lifelong communicant of Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Carnegie, PA.
Michael started his art training early in life, being chosen to attend formal art classes at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh at the age of nine. He studied in this program for six years, at which point he graduated to the pre-college course of instruction at Carnegie Mellon University, where he spent three years. Upon graduation from high school he decided to continue his studies in art at Carnegie Mellon, where he was accepted into the College of Fine Arts. After four years of study Michael graduated with high honors and a Bachelor of Fine Art.
After several years of showing in area art galleries, Michael felt that the Holy Spirit was moving him to give up the world of secular art to devote his life to the study and creation of the sacred art of iconography. Realizing God had been preparing him, he would start using the skills he had learned over the past 14 years to begin a new and ultimately more fulfilling journey. He has been blessed to paint for churches and individuals for over 20 years and continues to enjoy the challenge of pushing his skills to greater levels. He thanks the Lord for such a tremendous blessing to be able to have a sustained career in this sacred art form of the Church.
Michael now lives, paints, and worships in his home town of Carnegie, where he enjoys life with his wife Michele and their two children, Zachary and Mikaela.
Matthew Garrett (Boise, ID; www.holy-icons.com)
Matthew grew up in the Orthodox Faith, where he developed a great appreciation for icons. Matthew’s father arranged for him to spend the summer of 1991 working for Philip Zimmerman at the St. John of Damascus Icon Studio. Matthew grew enamored with the process of painting icons and spent the next several years reading about icons, looking for interesting prototypes to paint, working at the studio, and painting at home.
Since graduating from St. Vincent College, Matthew has set up a studio in his home, and has continued to grow as an artist and to develop his own style. He prefers complex compositions, and the challenge of bringing harmony to the many details. His work ranges from larger-than-life-size murals to postage stamp-size icons.
He has exhibited his work and given lectures on iconography at festivals, churches, and conferences. His work can be seen in many churches, including Nativity of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in Monongahela, PA, St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Altoona, PA, Camp Nazareth in Mercer, PA, and the St. Peter and Paul Chapel at the Antiochian Village in Ligonier, PA.
For more than twenty years, Matthew has been a member of St. Michael’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Greensburg, PA, where he has served as an altar boy, chanter, Sunday school teacher, parish council member, as well as chairman of the Parish Council. In September 2009, Matthew married and moved to Boise, Idaho. He continues to take commissions in his new studio, and is looking forward to the opportunity to be of greater service to parishes in the western United States, while still serving the churches he has helped in the past.
Cheryl Ann Pituch (Davidsville, PA; 814-288-2111)
Cheryl Ann was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally raised in the Presbyterian Church, she has been Orthodox for thirty-one years.
Cheryl Ann’s journey to writing icons started with a prayer on the night of her conversion to the Holy Orthodox faith as the words from Psalm 115(116) became her meditation: “I believed therefore I spoke; I was greatly humbled. I said in my ecstasy, What shall I give back to the Lord for all He rendered to me?” She explains, “It was six years later and halfway across the country that iconography came into my life through a priest that I was helping. He insisted I try this ‘icon writing’ on my own and not just fill in his boards for him. His encouragement was critical in establishing this path and his skills as an iconographer shaped my style to this day. It was while working with him that I felt clearly for the first time that this was the path God had set me on. In all honesty I was very surprised, and doubted that this could be the answer to that prayer said many years before. However, the words from that Psalm were constantly with me, pushing me to continue in a way that is hard to put into words. A move to Pennsylvania put me in the hands of a layman who painted icons in a slightly different style. This too, of course, by God’s design! A man of open arms and hospitality who welcomed anyone and everyone to paint with him! Color and expression were greatly enhanced through his hand. I don’t think I could list all the small things that God has given to me through this iconographer! How blessed I was to have his help for a while. My skills are still being worked on by yet another priest iconographer from Erie, PA. His ability to critique the icons I work on has helped me beyond measure. However, it is his humility that has affected me the most and how he translates that to his icons. I hope to have his theological and spiritual guidance for many years to come.”
Cheryl Ann has been married for thirty-eight years to Eugene Pituch and is the mother of four children (Stephen, Alicia, Andrew, and Taissia) and the grandmother of two (Natalia and Alexander). She currently resides in Davidsville, Pennsylvania, a small town in the Laurel Mountains, 92 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Many of her icons can be found online at www.comeandseeicons.com [they can be identified by looking for part numbers beginning with “CAP”].
Format: saddle stitch
Trim size: 11 X 12
Page count: 28
The full-color calendar measures 11" X 12" and features large calendar boxes (1-3/8" X 1-3/4") for recording your important date reminders and lists major saint and feast days traditionally celebrated in Orthodox countries around the world (dates are according to the new calendar).
Iconographers and icons used in the calendar:
January: St. Xenia of St. Petersburg
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garret
February:
St. Brigid of Kildare
Icon by the hand of Cheryl Pituch
March:
The Conversation of the Lord with the Woman of Samaria (St. Photini)
Icon by the hand of Cheryl Pituch
April:
Myrrhbearing Women
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garrett
May:
St. Helen
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garrett
June:
Yaroslavl Mother of God
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garrett
July:
St. Elizabeth the New Martyr
Icon by the hand of Matthew Garrett
August:
Holy Martyr Natalia of Nicomedia
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
September:
Righteous Ancestor Anna
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
October:
The Creation of Our Foremother Eve
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
November:
Great Martyr Katherine of Alexandria<
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
December:
Great Martyr Anastasia, Deliverer from Potions
Icon by the hand of Michael Kapeluck
About the iconographers whose work is featured in this calendar:
Michael Kapeluck (Carnegie, PA; www.archangelicons.com)
Michael was born on July 12, 1963, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Stephen and Beverly Kapeluck. He is a lifelong communicant of Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Carnegie, PA.
Michael started his art training early in life, being chosen to attend formal art classes at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh at the age of nine. He studied in this program for six years, at which point he graduated to the pre-college course of instruction at Carnegie Mellon University, where he spent three years. Upon graduation from high school he decided to continue his studies in art at Carnegie Mellon, where he was accepted into the College of Fine Arts. After four years of study Michael graduated with high honors and a Bachelor of Fine Art.
After several years of showing in area art galleries, Michael felt that the Holy Spirit was moving him to give up the world of secular art to devote his life to the study and creation of the sacred art of iconography. Realizing God had been preparing him, he would start using the skills he had learned over the past 14 years to begin a new and ultimately more fulfilling journey. He has been blessed to paint for churches and individuals for over 20 years and continues to enjoy the challenge of pushing his skills to greater levels. He thanks the Lord for such a tremendous blessing to be able to have a sustained career in this sacred art form of the Church.
Michael now lives, paints, and worships in his home town of Carnegie, where he enjoys life with his wife Michele and their two children, Zachary and Mikaela.
Matthew Garrett (Boise, ID; www.holy-icons.com)
Matthew grew up in the Orthodox Faith, where he developed a great appreciation for icons. Matthew’s father arranged for him to spend the summer of 1991 working for Philip Zimmerman at the St. John of Damascus Icon Studio. Matthew grew enamored with the process of painting icons and spent the next several years reading about icons, looking for interesting prototypes to paint, working at the studio, and painting at home.
Since graduating from St. Vincent College, Matthew has set up a studio in his home, and has continued to grow as an artist and to develop his own style. He prefers complex compositions, and the challenge of bringing harmony to the many details. His work ranges from larger-than-life-size murals to postage stamp-size icons.
He has exhibited his work and given lectures on iconography at festivals, churches, and conferences. His work can be seen in many churches, including Nativity of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in Monongahela, PA, St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Altoona, PA, Camp Nazareth in Mercer, PA, and the St. Peter and Paul Chapel at the Antiochian Village in Ligonier, PA.
For more than twenty years, Matthew has been a member of St. Michael’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Greensburg, PA, where he has served as an altar boy, chanter, Sunday school teacher, parish council member, as well as chairman of the Parish Council. In September 2009, Matthew married and moved to Boise, Idaho. He continues to take commissions in his new studio, and is looking forward to the opportunity to be of greater service to parishes in the western United States, while still serving the churches he has helped in the past.
Cheryl Ann Pituch (Davidsville, PA; 814-288-2111)
Cheryl Ann was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally raised in the Presbyterian Church, she has been Orthodox for thirty-one years.
Cheryl Ann’s journey to writing icons started with a prayer on the night of her conversion to the Holy Orthodox faith as the words from Psalm 115(116) became her meditation: “I believed therefore I spoke; I was greatly humbled. I said in my ecstasy, What shall I give back to the Lord for all He rendered to me?” She explains, “It was six years later and halfway across the country that iconography came into my life through a priest that I was helping. He insisted I try this ‘icon writing’ on my own and not just fill in his boards for him. His encouragement was critical in establishing this path and his skills as an iconographer shaped my style to this day. It was while working with him that I felt clearly for the first time that this was the path God had set me on. In all honesty I was very surprised, and doubted that this could be the answer to that prayer said many years before. However, the words from that Psalm were constantly with me, pushing me to continue in a way that is hard to put into words. A move to Pennsylvania put me in the hands of a layman who painted icons in a slightly different style. This too, of course, by God’s design! A man of open arms and hospitality who welcomed anyone and everyone to paint with him! Color and expression were greatly enhanced through his hand. I don’t think I could list all the small things that God has given to me through this iconographer! How blessed I was to have his help for a while. My skills are still being worked on by yet another priest iconographer from Erie, PA. His ability to critique the icons I work on has helped me beyond measure. However, it is his humility that has affected me the most and how he translates that to his icons. I hope to have his theological and spiritual guidance for many years to come.”
Cheryl Ann has been married for thirty-eight years to Eugene Pituch and is the mother of four children (Stephen, Alicia, Andrew, and Taissia) and the grandmother of two (Natalia and Alexander). She currently resides in Davidsville, Pennsylvania, a small town in the Laurel Mountains, 92 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Many of her icons can be found online at www.comeandseeicons.com [they can be identified by looking for part numbers beginning with “CAP”].
Format: saddle stitch
Trim size: 11 X 12
Page count: 28
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