This spring, several alumni gathered to see Jim Paterson’s (BA 1981) Triumphal Entry sculpture that was featured as part of “Crossings, a journey to Easter” art exhibition in Toronto. In describing it, Jim wrote, “I started this art piece with a worn old slice of hand-hewn barn beam which grew into an animated, sinewy, wire sculpture crammed with the colours of my childhood and outline memories of people bobbing up and down in enthusiastic expectancy of Jesus turning into our street as part of His triumphal entry procession. I imagine the people on my street energized as we cry out ‘Baruch habah b’Shem Adonai.’”
Jim has been commissioned by the College to create a sculpture to grace the north wall of the new dining room. “We want to add a fireplace and comfortable furniture to this area to try to replicate the gathering space created by the old lower lounge,” explained Director of Operations Paul Penner.
Donations are being accepted for this piece, as well as River Cycle by Meg Harder (BA 2013). Meg’s 20-foot-long fraktur art was part of the art exhibit at the Indigenous Mennonite Encounters Conference, and organizers are excited to have this piece added to Grebel’s permanent art collection. Contact Fred W. Martin at fwmartin@uwaterloo.ca for more details.
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