2022 Multifaith Calendar - Resilience
Proudly celebrating its 36th year, the 2022 Multifaith Calendars theme is ‘Resilience.
Published by the Multifaith Action Society (MAS), the Multifaith Calendar (MFC) is a unique educational resource that facilitates understanding of religious occasions and festivals integral to a wide spectrum of cultural and faith communities.
The 12-month, full-sized wall Multifaith Calendar offers insight into the world's major faiths - a window that gives not only accurate information on each of the major holidays and festivals, including their dates and significance, but detailed historical information of these faiths and their relationship to time – giving us a better understanding of many varied cultures.
The MFC is also a carefully selected collection of art work. Each year a theme is chosen and artists from across North America as well as Internationally submit art for consideration. We are proud to say that these images are original works from a wide variety of visual artists.
Resilience...
Even in the midst of rising seas and turbulent waters, somehow life goes on. Nature endures, people band together. And more than that, they thrive.
Challenges bring suffering, it is true, but they also bring new opportunities. They give us a fresh start. A second chance to improve ourselves and our societies. They teach us courage and humility. During such times, we often have no choice but to stare down our personal and communal imperfections. To see ourselves and others as we really are. The process is painful, but it is also a necessary truth-telling. For it allows us to deepen into empathy and acceptance. And through it, we are purified together, like coal into diamonds.
In this 2022 Multifaith Calendar, we celebrate RESILIENCE and the hope that keeps us afloat, even during the most difficult times.
2022 MFC cover artist: Evelyn Beck : 'The Rapids'
A family rafting trip, a new experience full of uncertainty, seemed like a perfect metaphor for resilience and how weve all found ourselves maneuvering through recent perils.
...Evelyn Beck
Fibre art; 20" x 16"
Artist's Bio... Evelyn Beck
My pieces almost always begin with a photograph Ive taken. I am drawn to capture interactions between people as well as interactions between individuals and their environments, especially water. Examples of inspiration are moments where a child splashes in a puddle or squirts a hose or pours water into a bucket or where a man sits on a log looking out into the ocean or reels a fish into a boat. My preferred technique—raw edge applique—is an effort to express the joy and magic of lifes simple joys.
Using a photograph I've taken, I simplify it in Photoshop. Then I print it out and trace over it on freezer paper. I use the freezer paper pattern to cut out shapes from fabric and adhere them with fusible web to fabric to create the picture. Then I sew the pieces down on my sewing machine and add additional detail with thread. When the picture is complete, I build a frame and staple the art quilt to the frame.
I am an art quilter who happily lives and sews in Anderson, South Carolina. I have a wnderful husband, two children and two grandchildren.
