The first release of Faltering Toward Perfection by artist and author Jody Stephenson will be presented at Studio 62 at 335 W. Van Buren on Saturday, Jan. 19 from 2 to 6 p.m.

  The book is an extended visual meditation based on Stephenson's own paintings and examines the artistic and spiritual processes that propel creative life. Woven through its pages are personal perspectives on the quest for perfection, vocation and depression, and living the life of faith in the world of art.