Pop-Mennonite A CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBIT Enter "…carnivalesque images that manifest from cultural critique…" -Indiana Review "…jarring juxtaposition of the sacred and the secular…" -Canadian Mennonite "Weird. Disturbing. Bizarre" -Mennonite Weekly "The work isn't just about Mennonites. It's about all of us." -Times Union "...this guy ought to apply for an NEA grant. And then I see that's exactly what happened. Your expressions mixing faith with grotesque seem to fit right in with the Madonna/elephant dung, crucifix in urine." -MennoDiscuss

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Pop-Mennonite Inventory PAINTINGS: The Conscientious Objector, 18x21", oil on canvas Excommunication: The Trickle Down Effect, 16x12, oil on canvas Jerk-Over Temple, 16x42, oil on canvas Just As I Am, 24x30, oil on canvas The Last Veiled Feminist, 40x30, oil on canvas Mennonite Jesus: A Publishers Perspective, 24x18, oil on canvas The Mission Field, 22x28, oil on canvas Pop Tart, 18x36, oil on canvas Rembrandt Mennonites on Holiday, 22x28, oil on canvas Self Portrait: The Grotesque Facing the Sublime 24x20, oil on canvas DRAWINGS: Acceptable Obsessions, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Acceptable Vocation, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Adornment, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink. Clashing Symbols, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Classic Ditty, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Gardenia Aroma, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Holy Kiss at Communion, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Joy stick, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Little C.O., 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Pretty Woman, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Roll in the Hay: Passion, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Roll in the Hay: Regret, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink Spirits in the Sky, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink What's Up Menno, 19x15", prisma bronze & raisen noir, carbon ink AUDIO: A mix of Mennonite music and preaching selections accompany museum exhibitions.

MENNONITE LINKS

Anabaptists.Org A Brief History of the Mennonites by Prof. John D. Roth Bible Views: Anabaptist-Mennonite Bethel-Mennonite History Delaware Mennonite Documentary/short 60 min. Not All that 'The World' Does Is Good for a Mennonite, 1998. Belgium, language=dutch Mection mennonitechurch - http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/about/cof/ Mennonite Quarterly Review Mennonite Historical Soceity of British Columbia Randall Stoltzfuz Artist with Mennonite background enolink MennoLinks groups Spurgeon-Anabaptist History Swiss Mennonite History The Mennonite Artist Database The Schwarzendruber Letters by Ross Bender. Unique Mennonite fiction The Mennonites of Manitoba Prairie Public Television The Schwarzendruber Letters by Ross Bender. Unique Mennonite fiction Third Way Cafe Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology

MISC: Matt Groening et al, Simpsons Comics a Go-Go, 2000, HarperPerennial, Mennonite family background http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/about/cof/

Linda Wendling (Mennonite) expanded her story "Inappropriate Babies"-which was singled out in reviews of New Stories for the South in Entertainment Weekly, Southern Living, the Dallas Times and The Southerner-into a novel during her year at the Milton Center, which was also the Center's inaugural year in Seattle. Wendling is a Best New Writers of the South winner, a Ploughshares Emerging Writers nominee, and a finalist for the William Faulkner Prize for the Novel, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and the Bellwether Prize for the Novel. She has won the Heartland Fiction Prize and was a finalist for Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops Anthology and the AWP Writers Award. Her stories and novel excerpts have appeared in River Styx, Microfiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories (W. W. Norton) and New Stories from The South: The Year's Best (Algonquin Press).