Where: Arts and Humanities Institute Maynooth University (North Campus)
When: Tuesday 21st May: 10 am – 4 pm
Maynooth University’s Department of English is delighted to welcome three leading female iconographers from Britain Mexico and the United States for a roundtable discussion about their art practice and experiences as female artists working in a sacred art tradition from which women have been historically excluded. In presentations showcasing their work and spiritual journeys as artists and in conversation with one another our delegates will reflect on their interventions in the artform. This roundtable is part of a larger programme of events hosted by the Contemporary Women Icons AHRC-funded Research Project led by Dr Azelina Flint. This project raises awareness of women’s understudied accomplishments in iconography and supports local community groups in creating icons of overlooked or obscured women from their own communities. We are grateful to Maynooth University’s Impact Through Dissemination Fund for co-funding this event.
Register for free on EventBrite (lunch and refreshments included): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/884439380997?aff=oddtdtcreator
Contact Dr Azelina Flint ([email protected]) for online attendance.
Our Speakers…
Sharon Seager specialises in the contemporary expression of the Russian Byzantine style. Sharon continues to be mentored in both painting and teaching practice by the Prosopon School Of Iconolgy in EU USA and online. Her work can be seen locally where she currently lives and works in London. Her previous studies work as a scenic artist in the theatre and meditation practice as well as the Jewish tradition of her birth all combine to inform her current practice.
Mary Jane Miller is a Mexico-based self-taught Byzantine-style iconographer with over three decades of experience using egg tempera. She is a passionate artist designer teacher and author. Miller’s work is unique provocative and at times unorthodox with a particular slant towards remembrance for the Earth and unrecognized female mystics.
Angela Yarber an 8-time award-winning author and artist. With a Ph.D. in Art and Religion nearly 150 of her folk-feminist icons have been sold in galleries homes and churches around the world. She is the founder of Tehom Center Publishing an imprint publishing feminist and queer authors with a commitment to elevate BIPOC writers and an Affiliate Professor of Women in Religious Leadership at Drew University. Her art and writing focuses on elevating the stories of marginalized women and has been featured in Forbes NPR HuffPo Ms Magazine and the television show Tiny House Nation.
Event Venue
Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute, Maynooth UniversityIontas BuildingNorth CampusMaynoothCo. Kildare, Kildare, Ireland
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