Meet Jenny Gallo, artist and founder of Carrot Top Studio, a Wisconsin art studio creating handmade clergy stoles, custom clergy stoles, liturgical art, Christian gifts, worship resources, note cards, stickers, and digital faith resources. Discover the artist and creative process behind story-rich designs inspired by Christian symbols, scripture, the liturgical year, nature, art, and everyday life.

As Lent approaches, this reflective Carrot Top Studio blog post explores the surprising connection between charcoal drawing, erasure, and the theology of Ash Wednesday. Through the lens of an artist’s practice, we consider how subtraction, mercy, and making space shape both creative work and spiritual life. This piece invites readers to see Lent not as a season of adding more, but as a faithful practice of release, discernment, and gentle renewal.