Donna has been painting for over 50 years. Using imagery evoked in meditation, writing and depth inquiry, Donna paints powerful, universal and archetypal images that tell ancient and modern stories of beauty, magic, love, imagination, faith and hope.
Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania and raised in Monongahela, Pennsylvania. Rev. Donna Papenhausen has always been an artist at heart. She began revealing her passion for art as a three year old who liberally decorated the walls of her parents’ home with her drawings, once in black grease pencil! As she got older, Donna graduated to art classes in grade school, middle and high school, even winning an award in a state sponsored show her senior
year.
As an undergrad at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA, Donna majored in Art Education, graduated with honors. She taught art at Windsor Locks High School in Connecticut and later became Director of Christian Education at the East Granby Congregational Church. Donna graduated from Yale Divinity School, in New Haven, CT, and served churches in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Florida before retiring in 2012. Throughout her ministry Donna created her own
art and used the arts in teaching and pastoral care.
Donna is a 2012 graduate of Expressive Arts Florida Institute Certificate Training Program.
