Art Theology, Non-Violence, and Wisdom from Margins

Art Theology is a method of making art to make new knowledge and understanding of theological ideas that discursive reasoning alone cannot provide.  This interactive and collaborative workshop will engage participants in making theology.  Participants will be invited to gather their own experience, knowledge, and wisdom through various materials (pastels, paints, colored pencils, markers, crayons, fabrics, and colored paper will all be supplied). We will make theology on the question: What is divine love in the margins? and/or What is non-violence?  We will then discuss the emerging ideas of art historians and cognitive scientists, which explain how Art Theology arrives at different knowledge than discursive reasoning. Art Theology is an interdisciplinary method that centers on indigenous wisdom like the matauranga Maori of Aotearoa, New Zealand, which has always included a variety of ways of accessing knowledge, including making art.

Angela Hummel will facilitate this workshop. Hummel has an MFA and is completing her Doctorate at the Iliff School of Theology. She is a top blogger for the Wabash Foundation and has published poetry in Bombay Gin.