Glory by
Courtney Powell

I. W. C. C.
P. O. Box 8112
Moscow, ID  83843-0612

Courtney Powell, a freshman minoring in music at Whitworth College in Spokane, is the featured artist for our 2003-2004 season poster. Glory was photographed for our season poster by Pullman photographer Denise Beck; the poster was designed by Steve Teare of BetterBrochure.

Glory was created during Courtney's high school crafts class, using adhesive to fix the glass to plywood before filling it in with grout. The design came from the glass: she had a wing and a dress and decided to make them into a girl or an angel. The red corner pieces were intended as sun rays in a friend's work. The background pieces were broke up with a hammer and worked in.

Courtney hails from Guemes Island in the San Juans; she graduated from Anacortes High School in 2003. She is adapting well to college at Whitworth. Although the weather is in Spokane quite different (she wishes for rain), she finds that Whitworth is enough like island life that she doesn't miss home too much. She especially likes not being dependant on the ferry. At home, she had plan her activities around the fact that the last ferry from Anacortes to Guemes Island ran at 6:00 pm.

Courtney was invited to show two pieces at the 2003 Anacortes Arts & Crafts Festival. Glory was named as Courtney completed the paperwork. The artist gives this explanation for her choice: "I wrote "Glory" because although I'm still not sure whether the person is an angel or a human, I am sure that they are glorifying God."

The Idaho-Washington Concert Chorale thanks Courtney for sharing her art with us. We also thank Steve Teare for designing the season poster and Denise Beck for photographing Courtney's work.