In conjunction with the closing of the Environmental Art Show, please join us for Waymarks Toward Reunion: Making Beauty As a Return to the Earth an Artist Talk with Patrick Beldio, MFA, Ph.D. and Waymarks Fellow Gabriella Palmer, 26′ on April 21 at 5pm in the Charles Kratz Scranton Heritage Room.
What does it mean to return — to the earth, to ourselves, to what is sacred in the ordinary?
This talk brings together a sculptor and a playwright at a shared creative threshold. Patrick Beldio, Artist-in-Residence at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Scranton, introduces his grant-funded program Waymarks Toward Reunion and reflects on his own creative and spiritual practices, and how these inform and are informed by his scholarship and teaching in the classroom. Gabriella Palmer, Scranton student and Waymarks Fellow, shares her latest original play: a retelling of the Prodigal Son as family drama with magical realism, that also examines the theme of reunion with nature. Beldio and Palmer will discuss what making art asks of both artist and audience, what the word reunion means in a week devoted to the earth, and how they each entered the creative threshold from different doors. The talk concludes with a Q&A.
This event is free and open to the public, light refreshments will be available. This event qualifies as a Life of the Mind Event for First Year Seminar Students. We hope you can join us!
If you have any questions regarding this event please reach out to Marleen Cloutier via email at marleen.cloutier@scranton.edu