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  Read more about the exhibit here: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2023/02/01/vanderbilt-divinity-school-exhibits-culture-commodity-in-recognition-of-black-history-month/ Artist Bio Elisheba Israel Mrozik is an Award winning multidisciplinary fine artist and international award winning Tattooist from Memphis, TN.  She graduated from Memphis College of Art in 2006 with a BFA in Computer Arts. After moving… Read More

Read more about the exhibit here: https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2022/08/31/lawson-among-nashville-civil-rights-icons-featured-in-photo-exhibit-at-vanderbilt-divinity-school/?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MyVU+Faculty+8.31.22&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fnews.vanderbilt.edu%2f2022%2f08%2f31%2flawson-among-nashville-civil-rights-icons-featured-in-photo-exhibit-at-vanderbilt-divinity-school%2f&utm_id=273741&sfmc_id=49011290… Read More

Vanderbilt Divinity School alumni who helped bring historic shifts to the United Methodist Church’s stances on sexuality credit a variety of learning experiences—in the classroom and in field education—for their preparedness as agents of social justice. Carter Ellis, MDiv, ’13, was selected as a delegate to the UMC General… Read More

A virtual gathering.  The March 2021 installment of Vanderbilt Divinity’s Relevant Religion series: A Liturgy of Art and Social Healing, hosted by Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture. We will envision the revolution outside of the ways we’ve been conscripted as we move away from theologies that accelerate supremacy… Read More

Read the writeup in Vanderbilt News.     Featured Artists from Nashville: A Pandemic Observed ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Artist’s Statement: Joon Powell No one will forget those first harrowing weeks of scanning the news and seeing rates of infection dot maps and then turn entire continents red. Since… Read More

Artist’s Statement Enter Exit Enter Enter Exit Enter is an exploration of faith and the human condition.  We are born, we live, we die, and our spirits travel.  Although very small in its physical appearance, the dash in between one’s birthdate and date of death is arguably the… Read More

Join us February 18-19, 2021 for a two-day virtual gathering with the creators of The Black Trans Prayer Book. For more information and the complete schedule, please see: https://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/tbtpb.php The Black Trans Prayer Book is an interfaith, multi-dimensional, artistic and theological work that collects the stories, poems,… Read More

Artist Statement – “Resilient Souls: We Rest Then We Rise” My work compiles stories that are my own as well as those of my loved ones, my ancestors and the humble words of strangers. With themes of poverty, death, mental illness, masculinity/femininity and racial injustice, the bright colors and… Read More