The Church's Open & Affirming Art Installation Projects

(A chair display is out on the lawn, north of the church from mid-spring through mid-fall.)

The idea arose out of wanting to send a welcoming and affirming message to ourselves as a congregation and to the wider community.  It led to the idea of chairs, as chairs invite people to take a moment to sit and breathe. Chairs also invite conversation. We wanted our chairs to welcome the LGTBQIA+ Community, others who sometimes feel marginalized, and to send a general message of inclusion to ALL people. The Chair Project was born.

The Chair Project was anchored by six adult Adirondack chairs, each in a primary color of the rainbow. To this, we added seven individualized child-sized chairs. Church members, friends of the church, individuals, families, artists, individuals with challenges, and individuals who identified as LGTBQIA+ participated in the Chair Project. 

We named and blessed it: be you, with us.

It was and is both individual affirmation and invitation into a community.

You are invited to come sit a while; with a book, to rest, to breathe, with coffee, with a friend or a stranger.

The Snowpeople dislay is our winter oriented, be you, with us, display.