Gerald Folkerts passed away after a brief battle against cancer on May 30, 2009. A graduate of Dordt College (Iowa), Gerald Folkerts moved to Winnipeg to begin a teaching career that would span eighteen years. After this he left the classroom to devote more time to his art. Gerald has participated in solo and group exhibitions in North America and was an award-winner in IMAGO's 30th Anniversary National Juried Competition with his painting Waiting for Eternity in 2002. He has served as juror for various exhibitions, led workshops, and has been a featured presenter at art conferences and schools in Canada and the USA. Gerald is a past-president of the Manitoba Society of Artists. imago-arts.org/artist-gerald-folkerts/ Dr. Calvin Seerveld: ‘Folkerts has the wisdom to let his Christian faith subtly percolate in the spirit of his painterly art by showing compassion for the problematic figures he treats.’ Jenna Smith: ‘Folkerts' Christian values of love and compassion were intrinsically present on his canvases: he painted the sick, the marginalized, the unloved. His subjects were homeless men, fatigued women or people in wheelchairs.’