“Something as earthbound as fabric and clay and paint can speak our most wordless longings, express our delight and grief. Beauty can connect our hearts to the divine heart.”

– Guild Founder Richard Caemmerer

Latest News

Our Next Executive Director

The Grünewald Guild welcomes Sarah Sprouse as its next Executive Director!

An Updated Website

If you’ve perused the Guild’s website recently, you may have noticed a few changes! We hope this new web experience…

Summer Gratitude

We rose this morning to the call of osprey young, demanding breakfast after a night of lightning, thunder, and rain.  The…

From the Heart of the Guild

• Within A Greater Breath
  “As humans, we are simply asked to walk in the mystery of our identities one day at a time, one step at a time, one question at a time. We are simply asked to know and be known with the whole of creation…” Kaitlin Curtice (from Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God) Reflection on the theme of belonging brings to… Read more: Within A Greater Breath
• Be•Longing to Mothers
  It was a longing that brought me to the point of becoming a mother.  Little did I know that becoming a mother would give me the most powerful sense of belonging that I could have known.  Curious how to be longing for something pulls at an ache while belonging anchors one within both ache and delight. Having lost my mother… Read more: Be•Longing to Mothers
• What Does It Mean To Belong?
  There is a tension for me, not simply in the idea of belonging, but the word itself and its two definitions. That of property, and that of intimate relationship. The first thing that many people think of, when they think of belonging, is family. Unfortunately, family represents both types of belonging. As a child we don’t get to belong to… Read more: What Does It Mean To Belong?