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Like
in any human group, the MSOLA counts a number of artists. Their relationship with
God, their love for Africa and the African country in which they have or they
do live their mission, influences their art, their expression.
During
the year we will present new pieces of their art... 
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Sr.
Gloria Sedes, depicting African rural life Sr.
Gloria Sedes was born in Madrid (Spain). She is a nurse by profession. She
has worked many years in Chad forming birth attendants and in preventive medicine.
She is actually in Chad working as a nurse.
Her
missionary life has brought her to Burundi, and to Chad where she has worked in
the medical field. Her artistic talents have been a great asset to help people
to understand the functioning of their body and to have a better grasp of their
surroundings.
In
Chad she has formed a group of midwifes, simple women, who are ready to help other
women at the moment of giving birth. Sr. Gloria made a series of drawings to illustrate
different situations, the functionning of the human body, and the reality around.
She
has a great capacity to grasp life. Her scenes of Chadian rural life are simple
and vivid.
In
Mexico where she did "Mission Animation", she created awareness on Africa,
in her encounters and common work with other artists. |
| | | Sr.
Gloria with Franklin, a young
friend in Chad | |
During
the following seasons we will be presenting some of her drawings.
Click
on the drawings to vision a bigger one!!!
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Sr.
Gyslaine Dubé
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Sr.
Gyslaine Dubé (Canada)
Africa in three coloursGyslaine's
art work is inspired mostly from her life experience in Burundi and the Congo.
"Her
art expresses a "dramatic, powerful love of Celebration" . She draws
on three years
of training as an art student in Burundi. Sr. Dube learned
a great deal from the varied
styles of her fellow students, but has evolved
her own distinctive style by concentrating
on the use of black, red and white.
Her
subjects are frequently the stylized images of familiar sights she absorbed "on
the
hills of Burundi.": the cattle, huts, drinking gourds, drums,and
celebration masks.
CELEBRATION is the key to the spirit of Dube's work."
( Catholic New Times, " PAINTING WITH LOVE- AND NEW EYES.") ( March
1982, Kim Herberner.)
"My
curved lines stem from the African notion of life as growth, as aprocess of constant
evolution that leads eventually to a passage to eternity. That is why my
figures are in
perpetual motion..." says Sr. Gyslaine Dubé.
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Gyslaine Dube was born in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada. She
has worked as a missionary in Burundi, and in the D.R. Congo. From 1991 to 1996
she was a, member of the animating team of the Central African province of the
MSOLA, comprising D.R. Congo, Burundi and Rwanda.
She
was part of the first group of MSOLA community
in the Philippines. There, she created awareness
on the African reality through her art. She organized art exhibitions that were
the occasion to open the Philippino to the African reality. The exhibitions were
the occasion to present videos and lectures on different aspects of Africa. She
also collaborated in the chaplaincy of the Jesuit university in Davao (Mindanao
Island)
She
has been working in Davao City (Mindanao) doing Mission Animation work through
her art, and, also working part time as a resource person at the Chaplaincy of
the Jesuit University of Davao (Ateneo)
Actually
Sr. Gyslaine is in Canada doing Missionary Animation and preparing the Centenary
of the presence of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa in Canada.. Click
on the drawings to vision a bigger one!!!
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