Jesuit Priest & Artist Father Jonathan Harmon on Art as a 'Work of Service', Defining Sacred Art and Seeking Justice Through Art
Description
To learn more, please visit Father Harmon's site.
Show notes:
1:15 Harmon’s background and work as priest since 2008
2:10 teaching fine arts and being a pastoral resource at Loyola University
3:00 his work in the arts
8:20 history of art in Jesuit community
12:00 Daniel Segers, Jesuit Priest and artist
12:30 Harmon’s process as a painter in light of being a ‘work of service’
16:00 Harmon’s painting from pilgrimage through Spain
17:30 students’ responses
19:15 his attendance at New York Academy of Art
23:30 Jerry Alonzo: how to communicate through your art
26:45 Pope Benedict XVI’s Encyclical Letter Caritas in Veritate
28:20 definition of ‘sacred art’
30:30 seeking social justice through art
32:00 his work in Brownsville, TX connected to his art
33:00 his series of Catholic objects
35:30 his balance of time
37:25 Alan Robertshaw’s comments about all art being sacred
42:10 Tolkien and Flannery O’Connor on religious imagination
44:00 incorporating Catholic objects into his work
46:50 Emily Gould - spiritual impact of artwork/architecture/nature
49:15 Jarnick Vitters - importance of the physical objects to Harmon’s faith
51:00 Alan Robertshaw - subjective importance of objects
53:30 Yelena Khajekian - art as a sacred endeavor
54:40 Nnebundo Obi - interest in hearing about priest’s pursuit of other vocations
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Music by Toulme.
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