
Most sessions take place in the Music Building.
Thursday, September 28
8:45-9:15am Registration
9:15-9:30am Welcome + Opening Remarks
9:30-10:50am Session 1
Openers (Rm 210)
- Rondall Reynoso // An Argument for Visual Theology
- Chris Morrissey // Five Ways That Art Knows Spiritual Reality
10:50-11:10am Break
11:10am-12:15pm Keynote Address (Rm 210)
- Cam Anderson // Consumption, Terror, and Affection
12:15-1:10pm Lunch
1:10-2:20pm Session 2
Context + Process (Rm 210)
- Anne Keener // Pattern Thinking: Encountering Indigenous Australian Painting
- Cindy Gould + Praveen Singh Rathore // The Phar and Mata-ni-pachedi: Sacred Textile Arts of Rajasthan and Gujarat, India
Testament (Rm 201)
- Joy Steem // The Most Reluctant Christian Artist: Madeleine L’Engle and Artmaking as Spiritual Practice
- Laurel Gasque // Hans Rookmaaker: An Open Life in the Arts
2:20-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:45pm Session 3
Mystical Landscapes (Rm 210)
- David Baird // This Submerged Sunrise: Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Spirit of Holy Saturday
- John Franklin // Beyond Appearances: Art as a Location for Spiritual Encounter
- Ron Dart // Emily Carr: Painter/Writer of the Spirit
Being Well (Rm 201)
- Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Sonya Sharma, Melania Calestani, + Brenda Smith // Prayer and Art as Lived Experience: Images from British and Canadian Hospitals
- Michelle Bythrow // The Healing Music of Taizé
7:00-9:00pm Exhibition Opening (SAMC Gallery, Norma Marion Alloway Library)
Matthew Whitney // Contemplative Geographies
Friday, September 29
9:00-10:50am Session 4
New Song (Rm 210)
- Ray Harris // Spirit + Song = pneusong
- James Falzone // The Already and the Not Yet: Improvisation as Spiritual Practice
Words of Hope (Rm 201)
- Leah Cameron // An Alphabet of Hope in the “Hierarchy of Grief”
- Sharon Fish Mooney // Vincent van Gogh and the Poetic Principle
- Kirsten McAllister // The Beauty of Orthodoxy: the aesthetic center to Dostoevsky's ecofeminist vision in The Brothers Karamazov
10:50-11:10am Break
11:10am-12:15pm Session 5
Listening Well (Rm 210)
- Kate Muchmore Woo // Towards a Pedagogy of Listening Well: Hearing (and Seeing) God in the Theatrical Context
Arts in Action: Commentary (Rm 201)
- Kaia Magnusen // The Great War and the “Good Fight”: Visualizing an Existential Crisis of Faith in Otto Dix’s War Triptych
- Joanne Pepper // The Face(s) of War: Can Public Art Installations Foster Spiritual Foci in the Midst of Military Conflict?
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-2:25pm Session 6
Arts in Action: Ethics (Rm 210)
- John Skillen // Francis & Dominic and the Arts of Devotion
- Angela Konrad + Jessica Garden // Evangelists for Empathy: The Making of an Anabaptist Theatre Company
Spiritual Practices (Rm 201)
- Deborah Saidel // Paleolithic Spiritual Practices: An Audiovisual Perspective
- Jeff R. Warren // Performances of Spirituality and Relationality in Contemporary Worship Music
2:25-2:45pm Break
2:45-4:30pm Session 7
Spiritual Formation (Rm 210)
- Matthew Steem // Chesterton’s Idea of Divine Participation: Humility and Wonder in the Artistic Endeavour
- Joshua Hale + Kelly Arbeau // Common Ground: On the Faith-Creativity Connection
- Wes Vander Lugt // Unbent by Beauty: The Role of Art in Spiritual Formation