Visual Arts

Artist Talk with Cathy Busby

AST Art Gallery (Located in the AST Library, 624 Francklyn Street, Halifax, NS)

Wednesday, November 30

6:30 p.m.

AST is extremely pleased to be able to host an artist talk by Nova Scotia artist Cathy Busby. Please join us as she discusses her work We Are Sorry as it appeared in Winnipeg and in Melbourne, Australia. She will also show a video about her work that includes interview clips from four Aboriginal people who address the impact of the so-called “Stolen Generations” and the apology for it.

From Cathy Busby’s website

We Are Sorry (Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2010) is an installation made up of two panels with excerpts from the 2008 landmark apologies to Aboriginal peoples by Prime Ministers Stephen Harper (Canada) and Kevin Rudd (Australia), along with two prints of their mouths at the time of these apologies. The installation was accompanied by a publication, We Are Sorry (Artists & Activists series, Printed Matter, New York). We Are Sorry was presented in Winnipeg by invitation from The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Theology Symposium . . . getting to the ART of it

AST hosted a theology symposium on June 30, 2011. The symposium was made possible by the generous support of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology. For more information on the Wabash grant and the AST Art and theology project, please read this article (pdf) from the Spring 2011 issue of AST Magazine. Speakers for this event were:

Regina Coupar, AST Artist in Residence (2010/2011)

Dr. David Deane, AST Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology

Dr. Deborah Sokolove, Artist in Residence, Wesley Seminary in Washington, DC

Check out the AST YouTube channel for more on the Art and Theology Symposium.

Left to Right: Dr. Deborah Sokolove, Regina Coupar, Dr. David Deane

Visual Arts Program

Welcome to the Visual Arts Program at AST. The purpose of the program is to foster a positive relationship between contemporary visual art and theology, one which will be of benefit to students, faculty, staff, and the greater church communities they serve.

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