Immanuel Icons
an orthodox christian iconography studio
in pittsburgh, pennsylvania
 

In all classes:

  • The primary requirements are prayer and humility
  • The traditional mediums are taught:  egg tempera, gold leaf, and gesso (the animal skin and chalk used to prepare the boards in a very specific process)
  • Students are equipped, over time, to understand for themselves the spiritual and aesthetic properties of iconography, enabling them to participate in the living tradition.  In other words, this is not a color-by-number iconography class.
Private Classes are available for students who have already done a group class with me, depending on my availability.

Contact me to arrange a time.
$40/hour.
Private classes are custom-designed to fit what you want to learn.
Classes taught by Immanuel Icons iconographer Randi Maria Sider-Rose are now online through the following online school.  Click on "Sacred Arts."  You will find a variety of 10-session and year-long options, for both 7th-12th graders and, in separate classes, for adults!

Iconography Talks and Workshops

Please contact me if you are interested a talk or workshop at your church or institution, or in being on an e-mail list for upcoming events



Examples of Workshops and Talks from the past:


Girls Retreat, Orthodox Church of America, St. Basil's Academy, NY, Nov. 11-13, 2016.


Iconography Talk, Orthodox Christian Fellowship, Fall 2015, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University campus group.


Talk and Hands-on Workshop at Academic Conference, St. Mary’s College and the University of Notre Dame, Spring 2015.


My talk, “Learning to See,” was part of the larger conference, “Seeing With the Eyes of the Heart:  Cultivating a Sacramental Imagination in an Age of Pornography.”  I also gave a 1.5/hour glass-icon workshop for conference participants.


2-Hour Iconography Workshop, Laurelville Mennonite Retreat Center, PA, 2008.


4-Session “Images of Advent” Art History Talk, Union Church, Chicago, IL, 2004.


Iconography Talk and Prayer Workshop, National Cathedral, Washington D.C., Summer, 2002.


This talk was part of a larger retreat on contemplative prayer.


etc.