Asta Nenortas

Graphic artist Asta Nenortas plays a central role in Connecticut’s Lithuanian community, for many years helping to organize the annual Lithuanian Scouts Food and Crafts Fair held at Holy Trinity Church at 53 Capitol Avenue in Hartford, the spiritual heart of the community. Asta has been a dancer in and the leader of the Lithuanian folk dance group Berzelis that performs nationally. She also makes Easter wands of straw and flowers. Called Palms of Vilnius, these decorations symbolize the first growth of plants in the spring, represent health and healing, and also simulate the consecrated palms of Easter.