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Jan 31, 2013 | Luke Blount

University Paper Profiles Professor, Episcopalian Iconographer

icons carol perry - vSt. Alban's, Waco, parishioner, Carol Perry is a faculty member at Baylor University, but her work as an iconographer caught the eye of the Baylor Lariat, the school's newspaper.

 

Last winter, the Diocese of Texas featured icons from other artists in EDOT Gallery, the diocesan art exhibit. View a gallery here. There was also a feature story about two iconographers in the December 2011 issue of Diolog.

 

Read the story about Perry below from Rebecca Fiedler:

 

Carol Perry is a Baylor lecturer who does things a little differently.


Perry is a full-time lecturer in journalism, public relations and new media. When she’s not performing her instructional duties, however, she’s connecting with God in a way that many Christians have never even heard of: she’s writing icons.


Iconography is a symbolic style of religious painting, though the creation of an icon is typically referred to as “writing,” not “painting.” Perry said she creates icons through 15th century Russian methodology. Perry majored in art when she was a college student at Texas Christian University and gained an interest in Byzantine art. Her paintings are usually of Christ, the virgin Mary, John the Baptist or one of many saints.


The Rt. Rev. Jeff Fisher, a bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas and former rector of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Waco, knows Perry through his time spent serving at St. Alban’s, where Perry attends.


“Making an icon is not like painting,” Fisher said. “It’s a spiritual practice where every layer in the making of an icon leads you down a spiritual journey. That’s how Carol experiences it.”

 

Read more about Perry on the Lariat website.