Communicating via Art
News
+colored+pencil+by+s+jewell+s+mcghee.jpg)
.jpg)
McGhee grew up in Quad Cities in Illinois and went to Wheaton College, where she majored in ancient languages and minored in theater. It was working in set design that set her on the path of community art – and art that communicates. Although she enjoyed working in theater, as a mother of four, theater didn’t seem like an option as it required work with a schedule determined by other people.

“Art was something I could do around doing other things,” she said. “Theater is hard to do solo.”
Most of her art tends to be something you walk into and experience rather than something you hang on the wall. While at Crossroads Presbyterian Church she illustrated a sermon series, with her drawings projected on the screens, originals on easels in the narthex and reproduced in the worship bulletin.
photo+credit+s+jewell+s+mcghee+.jpg)

“My pastor (at the time Rev. Kim Shirar) was very supportive of my journey,” McGhee said. She is currently attending Eden Seminary in St. Louis and participated in the Missouri Conference Candidacy Summit in July.