You can bring this fourteen-year project to realization!
Between 2009 and 2024 Karen has undertaken the design of the 14 Stations of the Cross, a mini-pilgrimage of Jesus’ journey from condemnation by Pilate to the Cross. These designs for future fabric art have been toured across B.C. in 5 separate tours.
One Station (number 9), "Shattered", has now been created in fabric and was shown during the 2017 Anglican Foundation's exhibit: (in)finite: spiritual conversations in cloth, in Vancouver, B.C. as well as The Craft of Spirit; BC Liturgical Textiles at The Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver, B.C.
Now, Karen launches a new fundraising campaign with the goal of realizing all 14 Stations in fabric. Please join us to learn about how you can help bring this vibrant fabric art series to life!
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We're almost halfway to our fundraising goal of $42,000!
Thanks to the generous support of numourous patrons across the world! Will you join us in bringing these project to life?
YES! Please allow me to support this fabric art ministry.
Discover how you can support this project below:
Support the Stations of the Cross
YES! I want to be a patron of this project! Please allow me to support the ministry of liturgical fabric artist Karen Brodie Designs to bear ‘fruit that will last’ in the world as she brings her Stations of the Cross project to life in textiles.
There are many ways to contribute to match all financial abilities and interests. Please note that tax receipts are not available for this project; Karen Brodie Designs operates according to the laws of Canada as a business.
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Experience the Patterns of the Cross
A Stations of the Cross Retreat
Does your Lenten season hold intentional time away for nourishment? Or is it more of a sprint to Easter? Whatever your walk with God, whatever shape your ministry or servanthood takes, we all benefit from sabbath time.
As a fundraiser for Bringing the 14 Stations of the Cross to Life in fabric art, you are warmly invited to an intimate group setting that will feed your spirit and soothe your soul. Created and ably guided by internationally commissioned liturgical artist and licensed lay minister Karen Brodie Archibald, this retreat will include 7 hours of rest and prayer, as well as contemporary art and reflections from Karen's Stations of the Cross project. This is a 'Stations' devotional unlike any you've ever experienced!
Once again Karen is offering this retreat in an online format through Zoom. For the first time, the retreat will also be offered in an intimate in-person space: St. Andrews Anglican Church in Kelowna, British Columbia. In both spaces, Karen guides a restful, meditative experience in which you can journey closely with Jesus from the Garden of Gethsemane to resurrection joy.
Jesus took time away to rest and pray. Jesus took 40 days in the wilderness to re-align himself as God’s beloved. Allow yourself the time to do the same.
Please send any questions to karen@brodiedesigns.com. Registrations with a donation are available below!
This is a safe, welcoming, inclusive retreat where diversity is respected and honoured.
Meet the artist:
Karen Brodie Archibald
Karen’s path to a career making liturgical fabric art began with a diploma in fashion design at the Phyllis Herndl College of Fashion 1988-89. Early jobs, pattern drafting, cutting and sewing in small factories, brought Karen to the technique of fabric appliqué. Self employment with these skills began in 1991 in Vancouver, B.C. with custom dressmaking, and the beginning of liturgical (church) art as Karen applied her new skills of fabric appliqué. Her life-long involvement in church, as well as a stint as a youth ministry worker, brought her to the intersection of these two passions.
For more than a quarter of a century from her studio in rural Golden, B.C., Karen’s sole work has been producing liturgical fabric art. This work has led to a large portfolio, being commissioned by churches and individuals of many Christian denominations across the continent and beyond. This includes hundreds of clergy and deacon stoles, vestments, altar sets, and banners large and small.
"As a Christian I have spent my life saying ‘Yes’ to the Spirit of God. This allows me to become a vessel for stories, symbols, movement, and emotion as I seek to illustrate God’s love for all people. It brings me joy to work with people from churches and clergy across the globe, to get to know fellow leaders and how I can best be in service to their ministry. Prayer and contemplation are a daily part of this process."
This series will premiere in Vancouver B.C. in January, 2026. It will be shown in Toronto in the first quarter of 2027 and other locations in between. Stay tuned for more details.
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