Shapona Artists (Just wanted to share a bit of history and current news about my talented relatives) Holy Trinity is located at 1700 School Street, Moraga, California. Not long after the Church was acquired, the interior was remodeled to make it a more attractive facility in which to celebrate the Holy Liturgy, and part of that project was the design and building of the Iconostas. It has special meaning here because the wooden structure was designed and laid out by Mr. Nikola Vujnovic, one of the Church’s founding members and most devoted parishioners. And the icons that completed the project were painted by a very talented young artist, Stevan Shapona. Stevan is the son of Vic Shapona, who painted the original icons and other religious paintings on the walls and domes of the St. John’s Serbian Orthodox Church in San Francisco. Approximately forty years later, after studying numerous publications on iconography and literally hundreds of photographs of famous icons, Stevan, like his father before him, undertook the task of painting the Church icons for Holy Trinity. His work, in the Church that his grandfather helped to establish, adds special significance to our spiritual home. Two women washing by Paulina Shapona Paulina Shapona studied art in the San Francisco-Oakland area. For many years, Paulina apprenticed with Ugo Graziotti, the master of the Renaissance school in Italy. Paulina traveled to Europe where she lived for some time in the villages along the Adriatic. She drew, painted and sculpted village life where the way of life had not changed for many hundreds of years. When she returned to the US, she worked as a graphic artist and muralist and she sculpted a cast of puppet characters, beginning the Renaissance Puppet Theater. She now gives performances and teaches art throughout the Bay Area and is an artist in residence for the California Arts Council, Arts & Architecture.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 08:13:59 +0000
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