Brian kershisnik nativity

Brian Kershisnik, Nativity, 2006.

A woman with dark hair in a bun and a dress in shades of blue with a swirl pattern looks down perhaps unaware of a flock of angels overhead pointing her head the direction she should go.

Articles on Brian Kershisnik's Nativity painting at BYU Museum of Art. Also, looking back at Ted Wassmer.

Taken before I was apprised that photography — even flashless photography — was not permitted. Damn intellectual property fanatics.

Brian Kershisnik is the youngest of a happy and widely traveled family of sons. His father’s work as a petroleum geologist took them to various continents across the globe where his mother unfailingly set up a home filled with music, great food and active conversation, furnished with treasures and artifacts from their travels and hosting frequent parties and exotic slide shows of their globetrotting family life.Brian grew up happily dividing his time between his dad’s overseas assignments…

When you marry a person, what makes things fun is being able to try new things together. It could be something you love and they have never tried, something they love and you have never…

"Nativity" by Brian Kershisnik

Nativity by Brian Kershisnik

I love that we are beginning with the New Testament. The stories and images of that first Christmas are still swirling in our minds and hearts. It is easy right now to think of the babe in the manger, Mary holding him close, Joseph’s protecting arm around them both. As we teach these chapters to our children, I find concepts are better received when children have time to reflect on a question and take turns giving their individual answers. Here's how to help them do just that.

As anyone who has read this blog for a while knows, our last baby, Lucy, was born with six toes on her left foot. The doctor assured us this was much more common than we may know, and that the extra t