Goose Creek Studio

06/23/2026

We always love working with creative folks! Sally DiGia came to us with a vision for creating a fireplace screen with her cross stitch sampler. Here's the result of a great collaboration.

06/15/2026

An exhibition curator creates meaning through intentional selection and juxtaposition — letting images and metaphors speak to one another, generating productive tension between them. Like a poet or a preacher, the curator’s task is to surface what no single work could reveal alone.

Biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine writes that parables “challenge us to investigate the hidden aspects of our own values, our own lives — revealing the answers we have already known but refuse to acknowledge.” Like her approach to the parables, the current exhibit at Goose Creek Studio titled INFERNO seeks to disturb rather than reassure, placing our community in honest dialogue with its current situation. We trust one another to sit with difficulty and make meaning together.

In truth, this series is more improvisational than planned. The chaos of MAGA politics and the heresy of White Christian Nationalism is moving too quickly and too violently to allow for measured or dispassionate response. And so the creative imagination does what it has always done: answers with truth-telling, sacred story, metaphor, and symbol — making meaning at the edge of chaos.

Ken Templeton’s monumental painting anchors the show in Dante’s vision, mapping contemporary and historical figures onto an ancient moral landscape. Around it: a father called to sacrifice his son, and a mother whose son was offered up for many (Mary Grace Thul). The birth of the primordial sisters of divine vengeance (Patrick Ellis). Atonement and divine protection amid the violence of war (Bobby Fuller). A collective shrine holding grief and hope (Bobbie Brooks Crow). The ultimate cost of faithful witness and truth-telling (Daniel Kennedy).

These are dark and difficult images — and rightly so. But every one of these narratives ultimately points toward the same horizon: hope, and the reconciliation of the human spirit.

06/15/2026

Check out this awesome community collaboration. Time for some deep listening.

06/13/2026

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The parable should disturb. If we hear it and are not disturbed, there is something seriously amiss with our moral compass. It would be better if we perhaps started by seeing the parable not as about heaven or hell or final judgement, but about kings, politics, violence, and the absence of justice.....

06/04/2026

Closing early on Friday and closed for the day on Saturday. 👍

06/04/2026

We will be open Friday, June 5, 10:00 am-2:00 pm and will be closed on Saturday, June 6.

05/08/2026

Remembering John Cowlbeck. Always willing to offer a helping hand and a stubborn opinion. You can find his fingerprints on every inch of 302 Court Street.

This is the day that the Lord has made
And a day we’ll have to make our way through.
Whether with ease or pain
With patience or joy
May we find opportunities for generosity
Toward others and ourselves.
May we find moments of encounter
Even in isolation
May we find stories and memories
Even in the most complicated corners.

Rest in peace, old man.

04/29/2026

This hole in our hearts is huge
and it hurts like hell
May we vow to fill it
with creative wonder and joy
with affection for neighbors and family
with deep gratitude for friendship

04/01/2026

Getting ready for a new look and feel. See you next week.

03/28/2026

We will be closed next week (4/1-4/4) for spring cleaning and a refresh. Reopening on Wednesday, April 8. Blessed be.