Fr. Dwight Longenecker shares his experience in working with Jim at Our Lady of the Rosary in Greenville and the traditional aspect of creative art that Jim uses.
Skilled as a potter and painter, Craft teaches art at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida. With an MFA from Clemson University, for twenty five years he’s been teaching college students art history and heading up the studio art department as well as serving as professor of sculpture and ceramics.
Fr. Longenecker says,
Having decided to build our new parish church in a Romanesque style, we commissioned Craft to produce the artwork to fill the tympanum arches over the three West doors, and the door to the lower church. Since the church was being built during the Year of Mercy, we asked him to produce a central relief carving with muted glaze colors, portraying the Merciful Lord in glory. This was to be flanked by the story of the woman taken in adultery and the reconciliation of the prodigal son.