Orthodox Arts Journal

A Beautiful Church for Holy Cross Monastery in West Virginia by Andrew Gould - With great pleasure, I have developed a design for a new church for the Hermitage of the Holy Cross in West Virginia. In many ways, this design is the culmination of 15 years of thought, research, and experimentation on my part, and encapsulates the best of my ideas for Orthodox church design. I would like… ... Continue reading »

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Fr Gregory Kroug – An Exhibition Honoring the 50th Anniversary of his Repose by Seraphim O'Keefe - The Exhibition In late June, I was blessed with the opportunity to spend a week in Paris, attending an exhibition in honor of the 50th anniversary of the repose of iconographer monk Gregory Kroug. The event ran from May 14th through June 30th, and included a curated exhibition of Kroug’s iconography displayed in the… ... Continue reading »

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Coming Full Circle: A Masterclass at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra by Seraphim Hanisch - On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, a very special choral masterclass was given in the lower room of the Great Bell Tower at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra. This monastery is considered the spiritual center of all of Russia and of its Orthodox Church. Several different factors contributed to the particular significance of this masterclass. The… ... Continue reading »

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A Constellation of Chandeliers – Some Recent Lighting Projects by Andrew Gould - I have written some articles in the past about large choros chandeliers that I have designed and installed. But today, I’d like to introduce a number of other lighting projects: individual or unusual fixtures, chandeliers in interesting places, and other pieces I’ve had the pleasure of making. I will start with a recent chandelier I… ... Continue reading »

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Preparatory Drawings as Temporary Icons: An Alternative Solution by Fr. Silouan Justiniano - In preparation for our patronal feast, at the Monastery of St. Dionysios the Areopagite, we ran into the problem of our unfinished, blank iconostasis. What could be done for the occasion in order to make it more presentable? First, as is common, we thought of speedily acquiring temporary icon reproductions to fill in the empty… ... Continue reading »

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Preparatory Drawings as Temporary Icons: An Alternative Solution

Coming Full Circle: A Masterclass at the Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra

Fr Gregory Kroug – An Exhibition Honoring the 50th Anniversary of his Repose

A Beautiful Church for Holy Cross Monastery in West Virginia

Worship in the Workshop: Providing Opportunities to Raise the Bar

The Living Icon

An Interview with Iconographer Vladimir Grygorenko – His Recent Work and Developing Style

Coming Soon: The Liturgical Arts Academy, August 18-24 2019

‘The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting’: A Chinese painting manual offers inspiration to iconographers

Wrestling with Angels: Icons from the Prosopon School

“And the Glory of The Lord Filled the Tabernacle” – Some Reflections on the World Premiere of Benedict Sheehan’s Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom

A Monastic Chapel for Spruce Island, Alaska

Kurt Sander’s Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: An American Orthodox Musical Milestone

Understanding the Icons of Holy Week

Brilliant Darkness: On St. Dionysios the Areopagite’s Blue Halo

The Paradise Pavilion

A Constellation of Chandeliers – Some Recent Lighting Projects

The Dynamis Byzantine Ensemble – A New Recording Showcasing the Best of Byzantine Chant in English

The Nature of Divine Beauty

An Iconographer, a Contemporary Artist and a Movie Director Walk into a Bar

Worship in the Workshop: Providing Opportunities to Raise the Bar - The joke is at times heard that in the chapels of some of our seminaries, they “don’t worship but workshop.” The sense of this witticism is that what happens in their services is experimentation with rubrics, texts, service order, with an impulse towards “reform.” Over the course of this last summer, however, I was blessed… ... Continue reading »

Coming Soon: The Liturgical Arts Academy, August 18-24 2019 - English-speaking Orthodox faithful in the United States who have wanted to learn the liturgical arts of the Orthodox Church — music, iconography, vestments, architecture and furnishings design, etc. — have historically had limited opportunities to study with knowledgeable teachers. Some have had the opportunity to go overseas to countries such as Greece and Russia to… ... Continue reading »

Benedict Sheehan: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2018) - Liturgical Music in America Liturgical music is closely bound up with the people that sing it. Language, history, culture, experience, education, social class, all of these things shape the sound-world of worship. The people that founded Orthodox parishes in America more than a century ago—for the most part, immigrants from Russia, Greece, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East—brought their music with them, and in doing so they formed the foundations of an Orthodox musical tradition in this country. But the people who built these foundations are, of course, no longer with us. Even their grandchildren are no longer with us. The Orthodox faithful who populate our churches today are now, in many cases, people with a different language (often English), a different history, a different sense of culture, and who lead different lives. While there are now many wonderful Orthodox composers working in America today, the distinctive voices of these people—our people—have yet to be widely and clearly reflected in the Church’s worship. Orthodox communities have only gradually made the transition to worshiping in English over the last 50 years (some still don’t use English), so it’s not surprising that music is still catching up. It’s… ... Continue reading »

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Richard Barrett
Fr. Steven Bigham
Andrew Gould
John A. Graham

Aidan Hart
Lynette Hull
Fr. Silouan Justiniano

Markos Kampanis
Nicholas Kotar
Mary Lowell

Fr. Ivan Moody
Vladimir Morosan
Fr. Patrick O’Rourke

Jonathan Pageau
Katherine Sanders
Benedict Sheehan
Federico José Xamist

The purpose of this project is to make available online a collection of graphic illustrations of the highest quality. The collection will focus on iconographic drawings and related graphic ornaments stylistically suited to the illumination of printed Orthodox publications. The project will address the needs of Orthodox book designers, graphic artists, and many others, who desire excellent imagery for their publications.

Learn more and gain access to the images »