We Remember: Spiritual Reflections, Visions and Meditations
Featuring the work of Rosie Fedorchuk, Beth Ettensohn, and Debbie Graviss

We Remember: Spiritual Reflections, Visions and Meditations is a collaborative exhibition created by three artists, and fellow art teachers, who lovingly call themselves “artners.” Though each works in distinct media and visual language, Rosie Fedorchuk, Beth Ettensohn, and Debbie Graviss share a deep bond rooted in faith and a shared desire to encounter God through the act of creation. 

As Catholic artists in the Catholic Diocese of Lexington, they gather regularly to make, reflect, pray, and create in community. For them, art is a way of remembering. Remembering who God is and how He moves, as well as the quiet ways the Spirit continues to shape their lives. Their work arises from prayer, meditation, and spiritual imagination, grounded in their shared Christian tradition and deeply influenced by the life and ministry of the late Father Norman Fischer. His joy, generosity, and openness to the Spirit left a profound mark on each of them. 

Within the exhibition, visitors will see Beth’s earthen vessels and Sabbath circles in clay, Rosie’s mixed-media paintings, collages, and rosaries, and Debbie’s paintings that reflect her long-standing connection to God, nature, and animals. Each artist works in a different medium, but all share the same purpose: to use their creative gifts in a way that reflects their faith and encourages others to reflect on God’s presence. 

The artists hope this exhibition helps viewers pause, reflect, and become more aware of the spiritual dimension of daily life. Their intention is to support others on their Lenten journey and to offer work that points toward God’s ongoing presence and work in the world. 

 Debbie Graviss
Born and raised in the rolling bluegrass hills of Central Kentucky, Debbie Graviss has always been passionate about family, animals, and the creative life. Her artistic journey began at age four, when she was handed finger paints simply to keep her occupied, an act that sparked her first “masterpiece” and a joy that never left her. After earning a BA in Interior Design and a BFA in Graphic Design, Debbie eventually found her way back to intuitive, hands-on creating. In 2006, soft pastels in hand, she began painting rescue animals, flowers, birds, butterflies, and landscapes. 

Only a few years into this work, Debbie experienced a profound spiritual encounter while painting a rescue dog. Approaching the canvas with the simple intention to “paint purely for the joy of painting,” she created Lulu’s Smile with unexpected ease and a deep sense of joy. The moment left her wondering whether she had been guided by her guardian angel or the Holy Spirit. In time, she came to understand that experience as an invitation from the Holy Spirit to commune through the act of creating, something that continues to shape her artistic practice. 

Today, Debbie lives on a small farm in Woodford County, Kentucky, with her husband, Joe, surrounded by a lively collection of animals. Her studio, Graviss Studios, is located just minutes away in historic downtown Midway, where she continues to create artwork rooted in joy, faith, nature, and the enduring beauty of God’s creatures. 

Rosie Fedorchik, O.F.S.
Rosie Fedorchuk, O.F.S., has been drawn to both art and music since childhood—a passion that ultimately shaped her vocation as an art, music, and religion teacher at Saint Leo School in Versailles, Kentucky. She views her work as a calling: to nurture children’s creativity and, more importantly, to share God’s love through the arts. For Fedorchuk, artistic expression is inherently communal, fostering connection with God and with one another. As she often reflects, “By our very nature, we are all artists, for we are children of the Divine Artist.” 

A multimedia artist, Fedorchuk creates in watercolor and collage and has recently begun studying iconography with an international icon-painting community. Her artistic practice is deeply informed by her faith and her Franciscan spirituality. 

In 2023, Fedorchuk professed as a Secular Franciscan and now serves as the Formation Director for the Clare Francis Fraternity in the Diocese of Lexington. She lives in Versailles with her husband, Robert. Outside the classroom, she enjoys creating art, spending time in nature, traveling, cooking, and being with her adult children and grandson. 

Beth Ettensohn
Guided by the words of Luke 2:19, “Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart,” Beth Ettensohn approaches her art as a form of prayerful remembrance. Her creative process begins with research and quiet reflection, remaining attentive to the “thin places” where the Divine becomes present through the materials in her hands. Through this openness, she seeks moments of beauty, insight, and connection with the ever-creative God. 

As she nears her 70th year, Ettensohn continues to explore her identity and vocation through her work. Sabbath Circles, her Lenten series of colored pencil drawings, emerged from her private journal as visual meditations on the Sunday readings, each piece reflecting her search for harmony between the physical and spiritual self. 

Her Vessels of Libation series is rooted in the Christian understanding of remembrance as participation in the ongoing reality of Christ’s sacrifice. Each clay vessel is dedicated to a particular saint or person, honoring the belief in a living Communion of Saints who “pour out” grace across time. 

Ettensohn also incorporates personal experiences of symbolic synchronicity, especially through the appearance of ladybugs, which she associates with her late mother’s presence and comfort. She recognizes that such encounters, whether with butterflies, cardinals, or other signs, can offer reassurance, insight, and reminders of God’s nearness. Through all her work, Ettensohn invites viewers to reflect, remember, and discover the quiet ways God’s love continues to unfold in the world. 

 Exhibition Dates:
February 28 – April 18, 2026
Mary Anderson Gallery at Mount Saint Francis
101 St Anthony Dr, Mt St Francis, IN 47146 

Gallery Hours:
Sunday: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Tuesday: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Thursday: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Friday: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM 

Recepción de apertura:
February 28 | 4–6 PM 

Charla del artista:
March 21 | 4–6 PM  

Recepción de apertura:
February 28 | 4–6 PM 

Exhibition Dates:
February 28 – April 18, 2026
Mary Anderson Gallery at Mount Saint Francis
101 St Anthony Dr, Mt St Francis, IN 47146 

Gallery Hours:
Sunday: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Tuesday: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Thursday: 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Friday: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM 

Charla del artista:
March 21 | 4–6 PM