Fall Festival & Homecoming
Alumni art being sold at auction
Artist: Liz Hess, 1983
Title: "Walking Mt. Gretna"
Custom framed
Medium: Pastel original
Retail Value: $2,800
Artist: Julia Swartz
Title: Out to Pasture II
19" x 36"
Medium: oil on canvas
Artist: Tim Gierschick, 1995
Title: Blood/Seed
Medium: oil on panel
Size: 32 x 40 3/4
Year: 2003
Artist: Dorothy Frey, 1992
Title: Anchor
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18 x 17"
Value $900
Artist: Velma Yoder Magill, 1962
Title: "Dingle Sheep,” framed
Medium: Mixed media
Size: 31 ½ x 25 1/2
Artist: Megan Heisey Fleming
Title: Flag
"In 1999, I received a pamphlet from The Voice of the Martyrs with the theme, 'Remember My Chains,' listing and describing nations where Christians were being persecuted. The title words of the piece are written in impasto in the under painting, with the flags of the nations overlaid. The intent is for the physical creation of the piece to embody the prayers I voiced as I painted, as well as to stand as a living prayer for the presence of the Trinity to permeate those nations and dwell with those experiencing persecution."
Artist: Doug Witmer
Title: Eastern, 2008.
Medium: Black gesso and acrylic on canvas.
Size: 40x33 inches.
Retail value: $3000
Anecdote: This piece had its beginning as I observed white Dogwood blooms against the fresh red foliage of Japanese Maples during my May 2008 retreat at Mary Lou Weaver Houser's Herrbrook Farm. The title "Eastern" refers to eastern Pennsylvania and the idea of east Asian thought and philosophy as connoted by the Asian tree varieties.
Douglas Witmer (LMH '89) lives and works in Philadelphia. He is internationally recognized for his style of abstract painting that intuitively combines simple geometric imagery, emphatic color, and subtle manipulation of surface physicality.
Artist/Photographer: Lowell Brown 
Title: Fort Carlton, Saskatchewan
Medium: Chromogenic color print, 2008
Size: 36" h x 48 " w
Fort Carlton, about 60 miles north of Saskatoon, was a Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading post from 1810 to 1885. It paved the way for European settlement of Saskatchewan by promising the Cree people land and assistance programs in return for their claim on the territory. The fort is a short drive from Mennonite churches in Laird, Waldheim, Rosthern, and Hague.
Lowell Brown is a documentary and wedding photographer who recently moved to Lancaster. His photos of Mennonite World Conference in Paraguay were published by Mennonite Weekly Review, MB Herald, The Mennonite magazine, and other publications.
Artist: M P Landis
Title: WD2566 (mink)
Medium: Mixed media on folded paper
Size: 12.75 x 15
M P Landis lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has bee in many juried exhibitions at home and abroad. His work is represented in many public and private collections.
Framed 14 x20" Gordon Dimmig photograph, currently in the top ten finalists -- among 30,000 entries -- for the Canon "Photography in the Parks" national photography competition. The winner will be selected on Nov.23 -- and Gordon could win. Click here to see Gordon's entry and to vote!
