Worship and the Arts Conference III
July 28–31, 2010
Art demands attention: stopping, listening hard, seeing beyond what is obvious. Art expects surrender to an unpredicted path. In art and in worship something is at stake.
To respond is to take a risk.
“Then I saw new heavens and a new earth… And I heard a loud voice calling from the throne, ‘Look! God’s Tabernacle is among humankind!” (Revelation 21, excerpts)
Come to the 2010 Worship and the Arts Conference to engage your theological imagination, expand your liturgical horizons, and renew your creative spirit as we consider the theme “Danger: Art at Work.” Sponsored by Louisville Seminary and the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), this four-day event will offer pastors, worship leaders, liturgical artists, church members, and seminarians ideas and inspiration for creative approaches to worship planning and leadership. Through lectures, workshops with professional artists, and creative worship, participants will explore the dangerous work of worship in a variety of media, including music, pottery, theater, and visual art.
KEYNOTE LECTURES
 Janet Walton
Janet R. Walton is Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary in New York, NY. Her research and teaching focus on ritual traditions and practices in religious communities, with particular interest in artistic dimensions, feminist perspectives, and commitments to justice.
Professor Walton is a past president of the North American Academy of Liturgy (1995-97), a Henry Luce Fellow in Theology and the Arts (1998), the 2003 recipient of the AAR Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2009 recipient of the North American Academy of Liturgy Berakah Award. Her books include Worship and Art: A Vital Connection, Sacred Sound and Social Change, co edited with Lawrence Hoffman; Women at Worship: Interpretations of North American Diversity co edited with Marjorie Procter-Smith; and Feminist Liturgy: A Matter of Justice. She is currently writing a book, entitled Improvisation, Imagination and Imperialism in Congregational Worship.
VISUAL ARTS
 Carol Marples
Carol Marples is the creative director and artist for the Soul Marks Trust, which was established in 2003 to "encourage and enable creativity using all the senses, particularly through the visual arts, to express and inspire faith in God." Carol has been involved in creating visuals for worship, setting up quiet spaces and running art and prayer workshops throughout Scotland and other parts of the world for the past 15 years. She is particularly interested in the way that art can transcend our dominant language of words and what the spaces we create have to say about us and who we are.
Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1988 as a tapestry artist, Carol worked as a self-employed artist and teacher exhibiting her own work and leading workshops for all ages and abilities in textiles, drawing and painting with Leith School of Art ,the L'Arche community, and in community education. She created two large-scale tapestries with the international communities of Faith and Light and L'Arche in both France and Canada.
POTTERY
 Ann Laird Jones
Pottery brings form to the integral relationship between art and theology. Working in community with clay in our hands enhances our understanding not only of the intimate embrace between arts and theology, but of God dwelling with us. Ann Laird Jones is a potter and a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister.
She is a graduate of Eckerd College (’77), Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary (’82), and Wesley Theological Seminary (’07), where she completed her DMin in Arts and Theology under the leadership of Catherine Kapikian. Ann is getting ready for her 17th summer as Director of Arts Ministry (including the Pottery with all its porches!) at Montreat Conference Center in North Carolina. She lives in Greenville, Miss., (the Delta) where she preaches in Benoit, Sumner, Hollandale and Leland Presbyterian Churches; leads pottery workshops; and tries to start potteries in every church she visits. She was the 2009 Women’s Center Artist-in- Residence at Louisville Seminary, where she taught a January-term pottery class, transforming the entire space beneath the Chapel into a memorable pottery studio for one month. She has enjoyed leading pottery workshops and retreats for Presbyterian churches around the denomination.
MUSIC
 Dave Trevino
Dave Trevino has been interested in music ever since he could remember. As a child he discovered the gift of perfect pitch, which enabled him to teach himself to play, first the ukelele, then the guitar, then the bass guitar. He joined the school band in the sixth grade when his brother laid aside his trumpet in favor of football. David went on to major in Applied trumpet, studying at Auburn university. He also holds a B.S. in Communication from Tennessee State University. He worked as a radio announcer, an audio production specialist, a jingle writer, and a musician, playing in studios, clubs, restaurants, and churches in the Nashville area. David is very talented, creative, and has a wonderful sense of humor. Father of three children, David currently resides in Louisville where his wife, Deb, is pursuing dual MDiv/MAMFT degrees.
 Jorges Sayago Gonzalez
Jorge Sayago-Gonzalez is Associate Pastor for Youth and Young Adults at Second Presbyterian Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Originally from Puerto Rico, Jorge has worked for more than ten years as a worship and music leader in Puerto Rico and the United States. He earned his undergraduate degree in music from the University of Puerto Rico and received his M.Div. from Louisville Seminary. Jorge is a songwriter and singer with special interest in multicultural, contemporary, and emergent worship. Jorge is married to Jannine Sayago-Gonzalez, also a Louisville Seminary graduate, and both enjoy going out for walks and traveling.
THEATER
 Adrian-Alice Hansel
Adrien-Alice Hansel is the Director of New Play Development at Actors Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky, where she heads the literary department. She has served as production dramaturg on roughly 50 plays at Actors, including the Humana Festival premieres of plays by Naomi Wallace, Gina Gionfriddo, Kirk Lynn and Rude Mechs, The Civilians, Craig Wright, Charles Mee, Alice Tuan and New Paradise Laboratories, Lisa Dillman, Jordan Harrison, Anne Bogart and SITI Company, Adam Bock, and John Belluso. With Marc Masterson, she co-adapted Wendell Berry’s poetry for the 2009 Humana Festival production of Wild Blessings. She has worked in the literary offices of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the Seattle Repertory Theatre, and she has served on funding panels for the Joyce Foundation, LMDA, and Creative Capital’s MAP Fund, among others. She is the co-editor of seven anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre, holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. Currently, she serves on the board of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, which promotes social justice by funding feminist art. Ms. Hansel is a member of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Louisville.
Workshops in Liturgical Arts
Conference participants will have the opportunity to choose from workshops in four areas: music, pottery, theater, and visual art. Each three-hour workshop, guided by an experienced liturgical artist and teacher, will feature participatory exercises, exploration and discussion of selected topics, and constructive feedback on liturgical creativity and leadership.
Workshops take place from 2 – 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday during the conference. The workshops are independent, so that participants may attend the same workshop (e.g., theater) both days (different topics will be addressed on Thursday and Friday), or may choose to register for different workshops (e.g. music and pottery) on Thursday and Friday. |
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