Goose Creek Studio

09/08/2026

We have two new offerings to help you tap into your senses for calm and clarity. Soaps from My Cluck Hut (our new favorite is Cedar Orange) and incense from Triloka Incense (Angel of Hope is amazing - smells like church).

08/15/2026

Judy Blooms made a generous donation and we got a nice shout out from the Wildlife Center of Virginia on their art auction website!

07/31/2026

We love these Earth & Herb incenses. Apparently many of you do to. The frankincense was sold out but is now back in stock. Come find the perfect scent for your space.

07/26/2026

As we struggle to redefine the retail and gallery space of Goose Creek Studio amid a growing dystopian political and spiritual worldview, we are inspired by the generative work of local artists and activists who utilize their gifts to wake us from our despair to work for justice. Come by to see “In the Summer of the Semiquincentennial”, quilts and poems by Lisa Mansel ... through election day 2026.

“Gifts are a means of connection, not achievement. When we stop measuring our gifts by achievement, then the use of our gifts becomes about the action instead of the outcome. Instead of looking for what can be achieved, we can look for what can be connected and contribute to its connection.” Damon Garcia, What Are Our Gifts For? In Sojourners, August 2026

07/25/2026

“Find your practice and practice it. Find your teaching and follow it. Find your community and be faithful to it. Otherwise, you will tend to float around with no accountability system for what you too easily “believe” in your head. Your own ego will end up being the decider and chooser moment by moment.” - James Finley

Spiritual practice refers to the activities and techniques we engage in to deepen our spiritual connection and growth. Practices are often chosen because they resonate with us personally and create meaningful experiences or insights. They can feel nourishing, uplifting, or transformative in the moment. Paradoxically, these often interior practices ultimately lead us to a deep connection with things beyond ourselves – a sacred community and a sacred presence.

To read more, see https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=ed9fadb5ed95067154cfc62ee&id=d7094d7825

Photography by Jean Wibbens

07/25/2026

Spiritual practice refers to the activities and techniques we engage in to deepen our spiritual connection and growth. Practices are often chosen because they resonate with us personally and create meaningful experiences or insights. They can feel nourishing, uplifting, or transformative in the moment. Paradoxically, these often interior practices ultimately lead us to a deep connection with things beyond ourselves – a sacred community and a sacred presence.

Find your practice and practice it. Find your teaching and follow it. Find your community and be faithful to it. Otherwise, you will tend to float around with no accountability system for what you too easily "believe" in your head. Your own ego will end up being the decider and chooser moment by mom...

07/21/2026

“Your Yes to God demands your No to all injustice, to all evil, to all lies, to all oppression and violation of the weak and the poor, to all godlessness and mocking of the holy.”
Diedrich Bonhoeffer, The Gift of Faith (1938 sermon)

We are honored to highlight the generative work of local artists as they find expression for the chaos, hate, and cruelty that is ever present in our daily news feeds. Lisa Mansel has created three small quilts as a response to the recent Christian Nationalist march in Washington, DC, as well as the recent ICE killings in Houston, TX and Biddeford, ME. These raw and urgent works are filled with emotion, insight, and a profound symbolism that roots the narrative in our cultural and religious divisions. Lisa adds short poems to accompany each quilt and to give voice to the anxiety and sadness so many of us feel.

06/23/2026

We always love working with creative folks! Sally DiGia came to us with a vision for creating a fireplace screen with her cross stitch sampler. Here's the result of a great collaboration.

06/15/2026

An exhibition curator creates meaning through intentional selection and juxtaposition — letting images and metaphors speak to one another, generating productive tension between them. Like a poet or a preacher, the curator’s task is to surface what no single work could reveal alone.

Biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine writes that parables “challenge us to investigate the hidden aspects of our own values, our own lives — revealing the answers we have already known but refuse to acknowledge.” Like her approach to the parables, the current exhibit at Goose Creek Studio titled INFERNO seeks to disturb rather than reassure, placing our community in honest dialogue with its current situation. We trust one another to sit with difficulty and make meaning together.

In truth, this series is more improvisational than planned. The chaos of MAGA politics and the heresy of White Christian Nationalism is moving too quickly and too violently to allow for measured or dispassionate response. And so the creative imagination does what it has always done: answers with truth-telling, sacred story, metaphor, and symbol — making meaning at the edge of chaos.

Ken Templeton’s monumental painting anchors the show in Dante’s vision, mapping contemporary and historical figures onto an ancient moral landscape. Around it: a father called to sacrifice his son, and a mother whose son was offered up for many (Mary Grace Thul). The birth of the primordial sisters of divine vengeance (Patrick Ellis). Atonement and divine protection amid the violence of war (Bobby Fuller). A collective shrine holding grief and hope (Bobbie Brooks Crow). The ultimate cost of faithful witness and truth-telling (Daniel Kennedy).

These are dark and difficult images — and rightly so. But every one of these narratives ultimately points toward the same horizon: hope, and the reconciliation of the human spirit.

06/15/2026

Check out this awesome community collaboration. Time for some deep listening.