Studio Information
Novato Art Center Campus
Studio F
About The Artist
My lifelong love has been photography; I have used film – developing and printing my own work- as well as digital extensively. I am currently exploring pinhole cameras made out of found soft drink cans as a way to freshly explore this medium.
I love ephemeral things in nature – the seasonal waterfalls that come each year in Yosemite and then recede. The fleeting light and shadows that invite me to make photographs both through my eyes and with a camera or my phone. I also love contemplation, which is sometimes referred to as “a long loving look at the real.” It is in this interplay between the ephemeral and the contemplative that I find inspiration for all of my art.
My first photograph was of brother Peter in Hong Kong, at our flat which was called Eden View. This wonderful name of our home, which overlooked the village of Chek Chue (Stanley, under colonial rule) and the South China Sea, reminds me that my work has always integrated my love of the divine and of nature.
I am a priest in the Episcopal Church and have served many congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am deeply committed to interreligious experience. During the Pandemic, I wholeheartedly embraced artmaking as solace and public statement and in this time, I have rediscovered my first joy.
Since 2020, I have been creating prayer cards; this activity kept me sane during lockdown. I also began to experiment with found objects in nature, in particular obsidian from Mt. Konocti, a volcano. Obsidian is of course Mother Earth’s original glass.
I find the contemplative act of long periods of looking and gazing at “what is in front of me right now” – beholding, in religious language – to be a life-giving spiritual practice conducive to all areas of my life.
sg+ March 2025
Stacey Grossman (she/her) is an Episcopal priest whose ministry has taken place entirely in the San Francisco Bay Area; she has served numerous congregations as an intentional transition specialist and had a long pastorate at the Church of the Nativity in San Rafael. She has also trained as a hospital chaplain. She was ordained a priest at Grace Cathedral in 1997.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Pomona College as well as an MBA in finance from New York University. Her master’s in divinity was earned at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California. She has taught spiritual care in many places, including her seminary.
Stacey lives in Novato in Marin County, California with her Corgi Dazzle, who rescued Stacey during the Coronavirus Pandemic. She lives under monastic vows made in 2005 in friendship with the Order of the Holy Cross, an Episcopal religious order. While not engaged in the work of the church, she works in her art studio and is proud to call herself a gym rat. She has been a competitive rower for many years and is about to step back into the boat. She loves all things Yosemite and is an avid contemplative photographer.
Watercolor, Digital Art, Photography, Sculpture, Glass
