SACRED GROUND Best of show award, Regional Competition, Meadville Council on the Arts
18″x22″, acrylic on watercolor paper
A golf course green, a circle with another circle within it, taken out of a natural setting. Around the small circle, the cup with its flag, is a Lakota sacred circle of stones. The colors indicating the four metaphoric/psychological aspects of the four directions and the four aspects of the personality. The sticks represent a man.
James H. Vredevoogd holds a BA from Michigan State University and an MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. His paintings are in the permanent collections of two museums, two universities, and various private collections. An Emeritus professor of Art at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, he taught painting, drawing, and performance Art for thirty-two years.