Italian Street Painting Festival,
San Rafael, CA
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Freemasonry is strongly rooted in the liberal arts tradition of Western Europe. Mill Valley Masons, like their Masonic brethren everywhere, endeavor to support their local community, and especially youth. It was therefore an obvious choice for Mill Valley Lodge No. 356 to participate in the Italian Street Painting Festival to benefit Youth in the Arts.
Mill Valley Mason, Bro. Jeffrey Crozier, principal of Crozier Studios in Monterey, CA has lent his artistic talent to the Lodge Sponsored panels. Each of the Lodge's entries have been entirely original artistic concepts by Bro. Jeff Crozier. He has been helped in executing these exciting designs by his wife and Crozier Studios partner, Christine Mills Crozier.
Bro. Crozier said of the transitory nature of these chalk paintings, "The ephemeral nature of street painting teaches much the same lesson as Freemasonry - life itself is short and must be lived to the fullest and with beauty."
Jeff Crozier's Indian Dancer speaks to the initiatic tradition of Native Americans which has a kinship to the initiatic tradition of Freemasonry. During the 19th Century, many incidents were recorded wherein a Mason, in imminent peril before apparently hostile Indians, gave a particular Masonic sign and found themselves immediately received as a friend among the previously hostile natives.
King Solomon's Temple with the brazen sea and pillars of the porch in the foreground. The symbolism of the Masonic Degrees is based around the building of the Temple, which is an analogy for the building of each and every person.
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