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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 will make the Guild’s website easier to navigate, and make it easier to bring digital content to our community. Some notable changes to the website includes: Over the next few…

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Summer Gratitude

We rose this morning to the call of osprey young, demanding breakfast after a night of lightning, thunder, and rain.  The ground is moist underfoot, and the earth is full of lively noises – folks crawling out from the dry dust and heat of summer to celebrate WATER.  Only the Wenatchee river…

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New Guild Master

The title of “Guild Master,” bestowed by the Guild’s Board of Directors, honors artists whose life, faith, and work exemplifies what the Grünewald Guild seeks to embody in the world. On September 23, the Guild is excited to install its newest Guild Master – Kristen Gilje. As an artist working…

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Fall Arts Week

October 22 – 28. Explore thread, clay, and glass at the Guild during a week of fall program, exploring change and longing.  Renew your creativity and spirit with us this September! Cloisonne: The Elegance of Glass on Metal with Jean Tudor Cloisonné is an ancient technique for decorating metalwork objects…

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Painting Plain

An Exhibition of the Works of Richard Caemmerer. Join the Guild in September for a celebration of Guild Co-Founder Richard Caemmerer’s work and the abundance of the Plain Valley! This free exhibition will hang on the walls of Centrum from September 2 through October 1.   Most artwork will be…

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From the Heart of the Guild

Reflections and writings from Plain and beyond!

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…

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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…

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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…

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Sharing the Load: A March Reflection on Be•Longing

It was Mother’s Day. I was visiting a congregation.  Their tradition was to invite members to speak on days like this.  A young woman, visibly pregnant, maybe 5 months, stood at the podium, and began to share.  She began, “things weren’t always great with my mom, in fact, they were pretty awful…” As she continued to share her…

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The Space In Between

I keep looking at the dot, that little mark taking up space between be and longing, that has inserted itself into a perfectly fine word.  No one asked this little dot to show up in the middle of belonging, yet here it is, taking up space – even more space than some of the letters.…

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Longing

This afternoon when I opened our frozen mailbox on River Road, an envelope from my high school best friend was waiting for me.  When I opened it I was surprised to find a letter written by my twenty-one-year-old. self, listing desires and hopes that my then-future self might embody.  I had entirely forgotten that I…

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