Renew Your GCC Membership or Become a Member for $25 and Receive Book Modern Icons by MF Dondelinger
Renew Your GCC Membership or Become a Member for $25 and Receive MF Dondelinger’s New Book Modern Icons
Thanks to the generosity of Mary Frances Dondelinger, we are pleased to offer a special gift to new or renewing members of the Gila Conservation Coalition. Become a member of GCC or renew your membership for $25 and receive a copy of Modern Icons: The Sacrifice of Endangered Species of the American Southwest.
You may renew your membership or become a member at the November 13 panel discussion, Threatened and Endangered: Perspectives on Biodiversity Loss in the Southwest. Dondelinger will be on hand to sign books at the event to be held at the Silco Theater at 7pm.
You can also renew your membership/become a member by mail by sending a check for $25 to the Gila Conservation Coalition, 305A North Cooper St., Silver City, NM 88061 or on-line via GCC’s secure donation page.
Your membership in the Gila Conservation Coalition will bring you:
- Opportunities to get involved in local con-servation efforts through volunteering, grassroots organizing, advocacy, educational field trips and events, and service learning;
- Quarterly e-mail issues of River Currents, GCC’s electronic newsletter;
- Periodic action alerts and updates on important Gila River protection efforts;
- Special invitations to GCC events;
- Discounts on GCC activities and promotional items.
From the Book Jacket:
MF Dondelinger’s jewel of a book features images of once-familiar Southwest species rendered in exquisite detail. Short entries accompany each painting, describing the plant or animal, its habitat, and the cause of it’s endangerment.
Dondelinger’s work always surprises. She juxtaposes the ancient art of egg tempera iconography onto the most disposable of backdrops, the humble paper plate. The plate-as-canvas serves as a symbol of twenty-first century throwaway culture, just as the creatures she so painstakingly depicts (using precious materials like 23 carat gold, egg tempera and rabbit skin glue) have become expedient in our fast moving culture. In Modern Icons, readers will gain a new view of what is-or is no longer-to be found in our own back yards.
MF Dondelinger apprenticed in Italy with an orthodox iconographer. She applies the traditional materials and theories of this sacred art form to contemporary themes. She divides her time between Arizona and New Mexico.
This book is sponsored by ARTSPIRE, a program of New York Foundation for the Arts, Gallery One Visual Arts Center, Margaret W. Reed Foundation and amazing individual supporters.