{"id":8277,"date":"2024-09-11T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T16:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstuccdc.org\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2024-10-18T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T18:02:19","slug":"barbara-gerlach-art-show-through-october-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstuccdc.org\/index.php\/2024\/09\/11\/barbara-gerlach-art-show-through-october-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Gerlach Art Show: Through October 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Cries, Comfort, Courage Too Deep For Word: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The Persistance of Refugees, Displaced Communities, and Immigrants<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Barbara Gerlach shares the following about her upcoming art show at First Church, running from September 1 through October 20 with a special opening on September 8, Homecoming Sunday: \u201cThe attack of Hamas on Israelis on October 7, 2023, followed by war in Gaza that has killed 40,000 Palestinians, catapulted me back into my art to complete paintings I\u2019ve been working on for decades. 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