The Passing of a Visionary-Karen Laub-Novak

What a week-end. I spent Saturday afternoon feasting on every form of crab dip on heart shaped bread, heart of palm dip, and chocolate kisses with stickers on them announcing the wedding of my cousin/godkiddie Megan at her wedding shower in a beaucolic modern mansion in Bethesda surrounded by fountains and lush woods across from a countryclub. What a change from my usual view. Then I metroed over to the JPII Center and saw the most brilliant art exhibit at the invitation of the lovely Mr. Dempsy, the JPII cultural director (Grazie Grazie) of Ms. Karen Laub-Novak (no relation to

Robert)- who passed away on August 12th. She was so celebrated as a genius of an artist, sculpter, printmaker who used her craft as an evangelical tool of hope and inspiration that her funeral mass was held Aug. 17th at the Shrine. Her husband is the highly heralded author and Catholic lay theologican. He wrote, inter alia, "No One Sees God."

I got to chat with him for a few minutes -and found him to be a charming down home sort of good fellow from Central Pennsylvania (who preferred a beer to the Merlot I was drinking) and he informed us that his wife's exhibit will be at the JPII Center for another few weeks. I particularly loved the "Jacob Wrestling With The Angel" piece. Her stuff is brilliant.

If you are a private collector of modern art, you don't want to miss this exhibit- and he further advises there is more of her stuff at the house.

Couldn't be a nicer fellow.
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