Icons for a Living Earth: In conversation with Angela Manno - International Artist

Send us Fan MailToday, we are honored to welcome Angela Manno, an internationally recognized artist whose work bridges the worlds of science, spirituality, and ecology. Angela’s artistic journey has taken her from being commissioned by NASA to commemorate the return of U.S. space flight after the Challenger accident, to being invited by the Vatican to create a program for Laudato Si’ Week, Pope Francis’ landmark call to care for our common home.Angela Manno is an award-winning artist based in New York City.  She is a graduate of Bard College and studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, and l’Ecole des Arts in France. She trained with master iconographer Vladislav Andrejev in the ancient liturgical art of Byzantine-Russian iconography. Angela Manno’s art has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions including the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and other museums around the world. Her works reside in many private collections throughout the Americas, the Middle East, Europe, and Southeast Asia and in distinguished public collections including NASA and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum. Angela’s exhibition, Conscious Evolution: The World at One, toured internationally, inspiring more than a quarter of a million people, and her current series, Contemporary Icons of Threatened and Endangered Species, brings the ancient practice of iconography into one of the most urgent realities of our time: the biodiversity crisis.  Through her luminous icons, Angela elevates endangered species to their rightful place: the community of being--offering us an invitation to reverence, re-enchantment, and hope.Preorder her Sacred Biodiversity Cards and Guidebook here.https://angelamanno.com___________________________________________________________________________________________From Stardust to Us explores spirituality, consciousness, and culture in an evolving universe through conversations at the intersection of science, soul, and lived experience.