Category Archives: Meaning

Completed quilts of encouragement

Posted on November 5, 2016 by Jo Myers-Walker
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Quilt squares with a message

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Jo Myers-Walker

Groups like Achieving Maximum Potential (AMP) and the Franciscans have been working to spread awareness of the problem of human trafficking. Starting with a retreat in Dubuque, I’ve been helping others paint quilt squares with empowering phrases to be sewn … Continue reading →

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A Christmas walk

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

Instead of a regular Christmas tree, this is my slumped-acrylic nativity scene with St. Francis on the left. I’ve been using the walker while I wait for a bit of surgery, and was trying to get in the Christmas spirit … Continue reading →

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Fundraiser at the Figge

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

These photos are from October’s “An Evening with Area Artists” held at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa. The event was a fundraiser to benefit artsBASICS, an arts education advocacy organization whose mission is to “[i]ncrease access to arts … Continue reading →

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Working together against trafficking

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

Here I’m shown at YSS’s Risky Business Conference in Ames, facilitating a group of young people making banners to create awareness about human trafficking. We drew and painted colorful symbols on banners to be carried in demonstrations and parades or … Continue reading →

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Mother Xavier

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Jo Myers-Walker

This is Mother Xavier who founded the Sisters of St. Francis congregation which is now centered in Dubuqe, Iowa. Her religious community left Herford, Germany in 1875 and first came to Iowa City where they started a school and opened … Continue reading →

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Remembrance

Posted on November 11, 2014 by Jo Myers-Walker

Before leaving France we took a day to visit historic sites related to the World War II Battle of Normandy, first hopping a train to Caen, a city not far from the D-Day beaches which itself suffered great losses in … Continue reading →

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Peace Pole

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Jo Myers-Walker

Linda White and I painted Peace Poles Saturday afternoon before Easter Vigil at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. It was a lovely peaceful experience, except when we caught the Peace Pole in the tree. We used PVC pipe, spray paint, acrylics, … Continue reading →

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San Rufino

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Jo Myers-Walker

Another scene from the trip to Assisi — this painting shows us outside the Cathedral of San Rufino, where Francis and Clare and several other Brothers were baptized. This was the only baptismal font in Assisi until 1924. I was … Continue reading →

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Packing up the Christmas tree

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Jo Myers-Walker

My Christmas tree this year was made from painted slumped acrylic, shown below left with some of the crèche figures. St. Francis is credited with starting the tradition of the Nativity scene in Europe, portraying the birth of Jesus Christ … Continue reading →

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