Side By Side Saturday – Art with Charles Caldwell

The St. Vincent de Paul ministry is hosting a series of interactive events which will allow participants to focus on personal wellness and building connections within the community.

A key focus of these events is to allow members of the Basilica congregation and guests of the SVdP ministries to participate together, side by side.

No registration is required. Consider joining us at one, or a few or all of these sessions:

September 23 & 30 – Charles Caldwell, Art: Using art to tell your personal story.

Teresa of Calcutta Hall, Lower Level

For more information or if you are interested in serving as a volunteer leader for one of these events, please contact Julia.

Charles Caldwell

The Artist Charles Caldwell celebrates the African American experience as a universal story of everyman, exploring the wonder, sorrows, and joys of life in every portrait. His natural talent was nurtured by a mother that let him draw, an art teacher that told him he was an artist, and a community that supported his art. For over 40 years Caldwell’s illustrations of children playing, a grandmother feeding chickens, the bond between black men and women tell the stories of black people with love. Caldwell has developed several bodies of work in genres including portraits, glass mosaic, wood carvings, pencil drawing, watercolor, parallels, layered paper sculptured art, acrylics abstracts and murals. His images are shown on t-shirts, canvas, posters, and buildings.