PEACE ART GALLERY

Through our visual and performing art programs, we hope to broaden our vision of the Christian faith and engage/welcome our Salem community to our Peace Lutheran Church family. In the past, the Visual and Liturgical Art Team sponsored gallery and church tours, established the former Balcony Gallery, and organized exhibits and art talks. Thanks to Peace members and friends--especially Joel Nickel--we are expanding this ministry!

Our latest Art Gallery Exhibits are now featured in our new gallery rooms off the courtyard of our lower building and in our main building lower hallways. The displays are curated under the guidance of our Artist-in-Residence, Pastor Joel Nickel.

The Peace Art Gallery will be open:

·      Sunday mornings after the 9:15am morning service
·      Wednesdays from 10am – noon (after morning Bible study)
·      Other days/times by appointment

To arrange a free tour, call or text Pastor Joel Nickel at 503.949.6641 or call the church office at 503.362.8500

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation for future exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, and local art tours. Make checks to Peace Lutheran Church, with "Visual & Liturgical Art" in the check memo line and mail or deliver to Peace Lutheran Church, 1525 Glen Creek Road NW, Salem, OR 97304. Thank you!

LEARN MORE
Go to www.joelnickelart.com for artist biography and description of Joel Nickel’s distinctive “abstract geometric” with photos of visual & liturgical art. Contact email joel.nickel15@gmail.com, cell 503-949-6641.

Take a “Joel Nickel Art Tour” on YouTube.
The video tour is about 34 minutes long featuring “Out of the Blue” art created over almost three decades (from 1992-2018) and exhibited at Keizer, Oregon Community Center Gallery from February-March 2018.

As an architect, I wanted my work to express structure and simplicity. Structure, not just what holds the building up, but the logic the process, the spaces, and the use of materials and light.

I worked to simplify my designs - to express only what was necessary to communicate the idea of the project.

I try to follow the same ideas in my paintings. I want my work to have structure/ order. I try to not ‘overwork ‘ the subject and to be as direct as possible with form, color and content.

My paintings, especially the landscapes, are a notebook of the places I have lived from New York to Oregon. I have been blessed with the opportunity to record the beauty of this country.