Lenten Art Show

Doylestown Presbyterian Church’s Celebrate the Arts will present a Lenten Art Show, March 6 through April 25 in the Celtic Cross Room featuring works by Sr. Margaret Thompson, SSJ and Andrea O’Driscoll in the Celtic Cross Room.  

The Celtic Cross Room is located in the church building and is wheelchair accessible.  Parking is available in the church lot located at Church Street and Selner Lane as well as limited street parking.  For more information, contact the church office (215-348-3531/dpc@dtownpc.org).  

Margie Thompson, SSJ, M.F.A. is an artist, spiritual director, and a Sister of St. Joseph of Chestnut Hill as well as an Associate Professor of Art at Chestnut Hill College. Her degrees include: Master of Fine Arts from the Vermont Studio Center and Johnson State College; Master of Arts in Holistic Spirituality and Spiritual Direction from Chestnut Hill College; B.F.A. from Moore College of Art and Design where she taught for nine years; M.Ed. in Art Education from Kutztown University. This body of work is primarily focused on monochromatic monoprints and washes exploring the ways that the pigment drips and bleeds to create a sense of mystery in atmospheric paintings.  She often uses landscape and cosmic references to convey the spiritual experience of God’s self-communication in creation. 

Andrea ’Driscoll is a Magnum Cum Laude graduate of Chestnut Hill College in fine arts.  Andrea’s incredible range of work includes the creation of a series of unique masks for a professional Shakespeare theatre company in the presentation of A Winter’s Tale, as well as paintings in juried art shows at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill and Art Blooms in Cherry Hill, NJ.  Also of note is a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award she was presented for Art Direction of a frequently televised Public Service Announcement to call attention to the plight of the Homeless.  Her career as an artist also includes teaching art to children and adults of all ages.  She is a current adjunct faculty member at chestnut Hill College instructing both traditional students and adults in the accelerated program.  Previously Andrea has taught at several art summer camps and at the elementary school level where her classroom work was recognized by the Manayunk Art Festival for Best in Show.