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Our Community Artists and Artisans
We are gifted with many talented sisters. This page will feature some
of their art and crafts and we invite you to return as there will be
additions periodically.
Sister Paula Howard - Iconography
Sister Elaine Fischer - Woodworking
Sister Barbara Langel - Stained Glass
Community Quilters
Poetry by some of the
Mount Sisters
Some items made our sisters are available in Monastery Goods, our community's gift shop.
Sister Paula Howard
Iconography
Sister Paula Howard began
her ministry in iconography when she retired in 1999, after
several decades of teaching and administration. Interest
in icons had been awakened during her more than eight years in the Middle
East, but the desire to write them came alive during a retreat-workshop
on icons sponsored by Sophia Center here at the Mount. Four workshops
later, with the encouragement of Sister Mary Charles McGough, instructor,
Sister Paula has written well over 150 icons, mostly in the Byzantine
tradition. Several of them are kept for display in the monastery
to enhance liturgical functions. Many of them have been sold
to visitors or to inquirers across the country who have "discovered" them
on our web site. In the past several years Sister Paula has begun to accept
commissions to write icons of special requests.
For more information about
Sister Paula's icons and
to see some of her work.
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Sister Elaine Fischer
Woodworking Projects
Sister Elaine
Fischer,
our director of maintenance at our monastery, is originally from Ottawa
Kansas. She has many talents but when it comes to working
with wood her talents are remarkable. She is pictured here with a grandfather
clock she made which stands in our main monastery hall. Often you will
find her in the shop working on projects that add beauty and functionality
to our lives together.She is truly one of our monastery artisans and
we are happy that she is willing to share her talent so freely.
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Sister Barbara Langel
Stained Glass and pottery
Sister Barbara Langel, from Omaha, Nebraska, is shown here with
her latest stained glass creation, "The Samaritan Woman at the Well".
Many of her smaller stained glass projects can be found in our gift shop.
Sister Barbara is an accomplished potter as well. Her creativity is in
evidence in various places around the monastery and we are grateful for
her willingness to share her gifts with us.
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Community Quilters

Several sisters engage in their ministry of quilting every morning.
Sisters Mary Ann Fessler, Berndette Havlik, and Laetitia Chavez, work on a quilt. They have done
special custom requests, done the piecing and quilting for blocks sewn
by others, and produced original works for the monastery's gift shop.
Their quilt for the annual Night of Dreams benefit auction is always
a popular item.
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