by Frank Lewis | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog
We worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz in Italy on an original bronze statue of St. Cecilia for the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia motherhouse in Nashville, Tennessee. Custom statues are individual works of art. The artist starts with a pencil sketch based on...
by Frank Lewis | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog
We worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz in Italy on an original, five-foot-tall marble statue of Our Lady of Lourdes for St. Brigid Catholic Church in John’s Creek, Georgia. Art Studio Demetz obtains marble from the quarries of Tuscany, one of which was used by...
by Frank Lewis | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog
We worked with our partner Art Studio Demetz on a custom, carved-wood statue of St. Wilfrid of York, for a parish by the same name in Woonsocket, South Dakota. Wilfrid (634-709) was “one of the greatest English saints, a monk and bishop who was outstanding in bringing...
by Frank Lewis | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog
In 2016, a man driving near Our Lady of Mount Carmel church in Wickliffe, Ohio suffered a medical episode that caused him to drive over the curb at high speed and strike the base of a marble statue of Christ and two children. “No one, not even the driver, was injured...
by Frank Lewis | Aug 24, 2018 | Blog
St. Anthony of Padua is often depicted holding a child. A 2015 article in America: The Jesuit Review magazine explains why: In religious imagery, Saint Anthony of Padua is especially beloved; apart from the Holy Family, he is the probably the only saint depicted with...
