traditional arts

Lara Neri

my top three favorite museums in London

The British Museum - full of brilliant historical art and artifacts - like the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles, and the colossal...

Lara Neri

Give Sorrow Words: the Healing Power of Theater

Over the past 10 years my husband and I have done quite a bit of reading, taking classes, attending conferences, and learning from...

Lara Neri

The Byzantine Church as Microcosm

The interior of a Byzantine Church should be a three dimensional icon; the Church is a model of the universe, a vision of the redeemed, a...

Lara Neri

How is iconography different from other religious art?

One Sunday after liturgy, I overheard a visitor to our church commenting on the iconography, “Why do the figures look so strange? They...

Lara Neri

tea & tiny emperors

This past summer I was very blessed to be able to participate not only in another iconography class with the Byzantine School of...

Lara Neri

art camps: pursuing Beauty together

Two intensive weeks of art camps have come to an end, and I am thankful for the experience. I kept enrollment to four students per camp...

Lara Neri

iconography: window to the Divine

I have just returned from a beautiful, powerful, intense experience where art and prayer were indistinguishable. I have come away with a...

Lara Neri

beauty & simplicity

The Japanese have a gift for the pursuit of Beauty. It is apparent in their art, their fashion, their gardening, their tea ceremony. The...