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ways you can help facilitate our work in the world
There are many ways to support our work at Genesis+Art. Whether you are facilitating exhibitions and talks that encourage dialogue, learning, and sharing ways to address pressing issues in the world or by making a financial donation, you can play a vital role in forming a Genesis+Art community: a community that is awakened to the role creativity can play in transforming our relationship with each other, the world and the spirit that sustains us.
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Paintings
Our paintings are nearly always non-representational. We create together on the same canvas forging ideas together that we could not create alone. Working in acrylic and mixed media, we use hand stretched canvas on wooden bars or paint directly on wood. Before we begin an original painting, we inscribe the un-gessoed canvas with a blessing, poem, or intention for the earth and our more than human world. You will receive a copy of that meditation, along with our journal notes on the painting, in a stitched fabric pocket. Our paintings are always signed on the back along with our studio seal.
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Archival Fine Art Prints
Our fine art prints originating from our paintings are made using our high-quality inkjet printer, museum-quality media, and pigment inks. We use an acid-free, 100% cotton rag paper with a bright white, smooth surface. This paper also has a high color gamut and black density. This combination gives you a high-quality fine art print that are created in limited numbered editions, signed by Chuck + Peg and embossed with our studio seal.
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Ephemera
Ephemera is transitory, collectible memorabilia typically written, printed or relics that inspire deeper memories. Here you will find journals for your own thoughts, cards printed from our paintings and blank on the inside for your reflections, Celtic Earth Crosses made from earths clay and fired, and small framed prints from our original painting sketches.
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Earth Prayer Canvas Projects
Our Earth Prayer Canvas focuses us as we explore and reclaim an earth-based spiritual practice. The canvas grounds us to celebrate earth and nature and deepen our relationships to the earth, air, water, and its creatures. The Earth Prayer Canvas, along with words, music and nature recordings center the spirit to be alive with beauty, love for creation and the wisdom it teaches. Our 9ft. diameter floor maps are for groups or congregations to purchase finished or to paint together.
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Books
There are many invitations to listen, to engage, to be open, to love and remind ourselves that we don’t own the answers. We offer our own writings as well as the writings from our community as a way to provide sustenance and growth for your journey,
Gary Marx & Daniel Overturf
Illinois Trails & Traces: Portraits and Stories along the State’s Historic Routes
Exploring Illinois history through the paths we travel
Illinois Trails & Traces partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways. Marx and Overturf explore historic routes ranging from Route 66 to the Underground Railroad, all the way back to post-Ice Age animal migration trails followed by Paleo-Indian people. The authors also examine how rivers, canals, and railroads spurred the rapid rise of Illinois as a modern state.
Marx and Overturf bring history into the present by including over forty photographic portraits and written profiles of individuals who live along these routes today. Many of the people you will meet on these pages work to preserve and honor the history of these passages. Others profiled here embody the spirit of the old roads and provide a vivid link between past and present. Through this journey, we discover that we’ve all been traveling the same road all along.
Gary Marx & Daniel Overturf
A River Through Illinois
A River Through Illinois, an innovative collaboration by journalist Gary Marx and award-winning photographer Daniel Overturf, carries readers down the 330-mile Illinois Waterway, from the urban landscape of Chicago to the state’s most rural areas. Combining literary impressions, history, and personal narrative with stunning color photographs, this remarkable book transports readers to places most have never been: three hundred feet below the city of Chicago in a TARP pump station, above the Illinois River in a lift-bridge operator’s hut, in the wheelhouse of a towboat pushing twenty thousand tons.
The story of the river is told by the people who live along the waterway’s banks and work its course, who rely on it for their livelihoods, their recreation, and their spiritual sustenance. More than one hundred original color photographs and dozens of conversations with waterway residents, workers, and visitors capture the essence of the waterway, exposing its course and uncovering its past.
From Mud Creek to Peoria Lakes, a biologist, an ecologist, and a hydrologist consider the edge of the watershed Meredosia, Chandlerville, Henry, the Kankakee River and its tributaries and discuss the changing nature of the river, including new threats such as sedimentation, and the loss of habitat. Hunters, commercial fishermen, and bridge tenders share their stories that demonstrate resiliency in the face of great change.
Use of Images, Photos or Artwork.
We are interested in making Peg + Chuck’s art and photo images available for use in your educational programs, lectures, worship and other multi-media needs. See info on our Usage Fees and Permissions
Our earth’s atmosphere is now at the highest levels of CO2 in over 800,000 years.
The Climate Crisis is caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels that pump carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) into our Earth’s atmosphere. Solar energy absorbed at the Earth’s surface is radiated back into the atmosphere as heat. As the heat makes its way through the atmosphere and back into space, GHGs both absorb and radiate the heat back to the Earth’s surface. As global temperatures increase, coastal communities, which account for 50% of the world’s population, face increasing threat from rising sea levels and storm surges. Extreme weather of droughts, hurricanes, flooding and massive fires are becoming common place. The Climate Crisis is irreparably altering habitats, reducing the availability of drinking water, disrupting crop production, social inequality, and driving between 20-30% of the Earth’s species into extinction.
A word about Genesis+Art impact on the environment + carbon neutral + giving back.
With every purchase, you make the earth a better place. Through our partnerships with non-profits and other stewards of the planet, we’re planting trees, fighting climate change and working for social justice by donating 10% of your purchase.
restore and reforest
Reforestation involves the intentional planting of trees in woodlands that have been destroyed quite often by human interference. Maintaining biodiversity is critical in restoring forests. Different seedlings from the natural habitat are used to regenerate the original forest. Not only does it help rebuild forests to their once healthy ecosystem, it also plays an important role in mitigating global warming, since forests facilitate biosequestration of atmospheric CO2.
a word about our travel, the environment and carbon neutral
We feel our time on the boundaries and of wilderness has born witness to its peril and its beauty. We derive our inspiration for our art, writings and reflections of the earth has heightened our awareness of wonder and seeing nature as the original sacred text. We find our adventures going beyond the known to explore these landscapes requires travel. With carbon offsets, we can counteract our personal carbon footprint by helping build clean energy and carbon-reducing projects. To offset this impact, we purchase 2% carbon offset credits by calculating usage and impact on Native and support fighting climate change and social injustice.
The earth and our more-than-human world is our priority as we work to make a positive impact and a net negative when it comes to emissions.