On the blustery October Saturday morning, a historic church in Cannonborough-Elliottborough shone forth with joyful vibrancy.
Calvary Episcopal Church gathered community and congregants Oct. 10 at its 106 Line St. home to bless Icon/Altarpiece, a new work of contemporary sacred art and a bellwether for the church’s next chapter.
Icon/Altarpiece is a large-scale, permanent work by London-based artist Graeme Mortimer Evelyn. The visually ecstatic, deeply deliberated result of the Calvary Icons Project furthers the ongoing efforts of the Diocese of South Carolina on behalf of racial reconciliation, restorative justice and inclusion in a city once central to the transatlantic slave trade.
“This extraordinary work of sacred art gathers stories across centuries and continents, honoring the courage and faith of Calvary’s ancestors, who persevered through every manner of indignity and horror to build something true and strong,” the Rt. Rev. Ruth Woodliff-Stanley, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, told Charleston City Paper.…