The Arts Room at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Poiesis present: Intersection, Identity, and Liberation – A Vanderbilt Divinity School Student Show, curated by Master of Theological Studies candidate Lauryn Peacock, in proud collaboration with the Program for Religion in the Arts and Culture and the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Black Seminarians Organization, Gable, Latinx Seminarians, and Al’s Pub.
Exhibit Title: Intersection, Identity, and Liberation: A Vanderbilt Divinity School Student ShowMulti-Art Opening Reception: Friday April 5, 2019 – Hors d’oeuvres, drinks provided, artist talk, musical presentation and discussion, open mic, coffeehouse, and art-making space
Schedule of events:
4pm: Doors
5pm: Artists’ talk and discussion
5:30: “All Sound is Breathing Together:” Musical performance by Lauryn Peacock, discussion
6:15: Open Mic, Feat. Spoken Word Artist Kizzy Thomas, PhD Candidate in Homiletics and Liturgics
6:30: Coffeehouse and art-making space opens
About the Exhibit: This exhibit explores art as a space of resistance and intersection, as we live out the locality of our identities and the human artistic response to trauma and spiritual growth. These works engage narratives of sexual violence in the Hebrew Bible, treatment of ancestral lands and the body, multiplicity and African diasporic religion, Marian theology, generational memory and silence, recovery from relationship violence, healing, healthcare inequality, and expressions of gender, race, class, and sexuality – in intersectionality. All student work embodies a liberation ethic, body positivity, and identity, liberation as a communal activity.
Artists in the Exhibit:
Ariana Fay Laine
Damien-Pascal Domenack
Emma Zyriek
Erica Joy Johnson
Keitlyn Alcantara
