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When the Violin Can Forgive the Past

"When the violin can forgive the past it starts singing."

(Quote from When the Violin by poet Hafiz with graphic supplied by…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on January 10, 2013 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

A Personal Journey of Years (Part 3)

The idea that our (Aberjhani’s and mine) work fit together like puzzle pieces was accurate and marvelous. In one way, however, it was incomplete because the work the two of us have done is only part of something much larger. The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities… Continue

Added by Luther E. Vann on June 26, 2008 at 3:06pm — No Comments

And What A Wonderful Surprise It Was

Please accept an invitation to be as surprised as I was, when I picked up a copy of the June 4, 2008, Connect Savannah and saw a picture of my painting, “All the Things We Are (Forsyth Park)” on the cover, by clicking on the following link. It leads to a great review by my fellow artist and astute critic Bertha Husband:…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on June 10, 2008 at 4:09pm — 1 Comment

The Personal Journey of Years (Part 2)

The first public acknowledgment of the [ELEMENTAL] project came June 25, 1993, when the journalist John Ryan published a story titled “Kindred Spirits,” along with a photo of Aberjhani and I by Wayne Moore, in the Savannah College of Art and Design’s (SCAD) former weekly newspaper, The Georgia Guardian. At that time, the book’s working title was “The Way of All Light.” It later changed to “The Light and the Way of Luther E. Vann,” and… Continue

Added by Luther E. Vann on May 29, 2008 at 12:33pm — 1 Comment

The Personal Journey of Years Begins

This is the first of several excerpts from ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, now available at the Jepson Center for the Arts Gift Shop (telephone 912-790-8831) and throughout Soar Publishing (telephone 803-699-0633.

A PERSONAL JOURNEY OF YEARS

“The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the… Continue

Added by Luther E. Vann on May 17, 2008 at 3:32pm — No Comments

ELEMENTAL Now Published and Available

It’s taken almost two whole decades of perseverance, faith, and paradigm-shifting for it to happen, but ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love, is now published and available for purchase at the Jepson Center for the Arts Gift Shop and also through Soar Publishing. For information on orders, please contact Soar at (803)699-0633 or the Jepson Center Gift Shop at (912) 790-8831.

Following this blog, I am going to begin a… Continue

Added by Luther E. Vann on May 17, 2008 at 3:04pm — 2 Comments

We Are The Ones

Added by Luther E. Vann on April 21, 2008 at 1:16am — 1 Comment

An Evening Out in Savannah

I’ve been honored to have one of my paintings, entitled “With These Hands,” included in the Telfair Museum of Art’s collection for several years now. But on April 16, the museum will host an exhibition of my work that will run until August 17, 2008. If you’re not in Savannah when the show opens, I hope you’ll make it to the city and catch it before the summer ends. It’s a special event to be shared with as many people as… Continue

Added by Luther E. Vann on March 29, 2008 at 3:17pm — 2 Comments

In the Company of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

(Photograph of Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray)

There’s a word, I’m pretty sure, for what I’m about to describe but I’m not certain what it is. Maybe I’m thinking about serendipity, or maybe grace, but definitely something besides coincidence. This is what

happened:

I recently had the pleasure of watching a movie that featured a…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on January 25, 2008 at 9:37pm — 1 Comment

The Limelight and the Creative Comfort Zone

Having been a working artist all my adult life, I learned early to respect and appreciate media type events like television news spots and newspaper interviews such as the one just published in the Savannah News Press’ at the following link: http://savannahnow.com/node/428917 where there awaits a wonderful article by Joel Weickgenant about one city's gift to the arts.…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on January 12, 2008 at 5:21pm — No Comments

Expanding the View at The Art for Life Shop

"The Endless Road" D/P art by Luther E. Vann

This past weekend I had the pleasure of sitting down with a reporter from the Savannah News Press and discussing current projects. After talking about the forthcoming show at the Jepson…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on January 8, 2008 at 11:35pm — 2 Comments

Update on ELEMENTAL in Connect Savannah

My piece "Habersham and 41st" reproduced in Connect Savannah.

As promised a few days ago, here is the link to the new CONNECT SAVANNAH story, “All for the Art,” which gives an update on the publication of ELEMENTAL, the book of my images with poetry by Aberjhani:…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on December 27, 2007 at 11:25am — 1 Comment

Christmas 2007 Footnotes from My Journey in Progress

The Bridge of Silver Wings…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on December 21, 2007 at 12:53am — 1 Comment

Holiday Exhibition at Indigo Sky in Savannah

(photo of Jerome Meadows’ “Carrying a Rainbow on Your Shoulders” courtesy of Washington D.C. Cultural Tourism)

Kind of short notice here because I…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on November 29, 2007 at 12:20am — No Comments

Art for Life Shop Now Open for Business

Basically I’m a classically schooled artist plying my creative trade in a neo-school techno world and due to that fact I have not rushed to place my works for sale online. But the time

to take such a step has arrived and so it’s my pleasure to announce the opening

of my Art For Life Shop where customizable framed prints of the…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on November 19, 2007 at 10:01pm — 1 Comment

Address for Telfair Museum ELEMENTAL Donations

(photo of Jepson Center by Richard Lee Johnson/Atlantic Archives)

One of the main reasons that any artist such as myself would be honored to have his work shown at the super-modern Jepson Center for the

Arts is because the facility is one branch of…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on November 17, 2007 at 2:11pm — No Comments

The Show at the Jepson Center in 2008

(Cover of ELEMENTAL: The Art of Luther E. Vann--it's a little fuzzy to prevent premature distribution)

By now, the word has spread that a show of my art will be held at the Jepson Center in Savannah early spring 2008.

Needless to say, I am elated by the honor and looking forward to the…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on November 4, 2007 at 1:14pm — 2 Comments

Looking Out Over the Creative Horizon

Good things are in the works. I’m happy to announce that one of them is the publication of my artwork, “The Soul of a Black Skylark Singing,” on the cover of Aberjhani’s new novel, Christmas When Music Almost

Killed the World (ISBN 97809662356-5-4).

Art for book covers is a different kind of creative…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on October 31, 2007 at 3:26pm — 2 Comments

That Particular Language of Painting

When I start a new canvas/artwork, I find that I am always apprehensive and shy away. I will only start a painting when I am at a certain space in my mind, my psyche. Then I can give my full attention to the process. If I find that I have too many outside commitments, I back off.…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on September 25, 2007 at 2:04pm — 1 Comment

Reviews of Luther E. Vann's Artwork

“Vann is a poet who uses painted images as his language.”

--Connect Savannah Entertainment News Weekly

“Luther’s paintings give…

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Added by Luther E. Vann on September 24, 2007 at 12:01pm — 1 Comment

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