Suffering: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation

Join us at the Fruit in Durham for a wide-ranging conversation about depictions of suffering in art and theology. RCWMS Artist-in-Residence MJ Sharp will be exhibiting and discussing her Terror Triptych with Art Historian Elizabeth Howie as part of the 2024 Click! Photography Festival. They will be joined by Theologian-in-Residence Racquel Gill, who will be discussing foundational feminist theology texts such as Phyllis Trible’s Texts of Terror with RCWMS Founder and Director Jeanette Stokes.

The exhibit will be open beginning at 2:00 on Sunday, with the presentations  beginning at 2:30. Audience questions and participation encouraged.

Leaders: A photographic artist and educator based in Durham, North Carolina, MJ was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Exeter, UK, for the 2021–2022 academic year pursuing the art/science collaboration Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night with nocturnal ecologist Dr. Kevin Gaston. Learn more about MJ and her work here. Dr. Elizabeth Howie has taught Art History at Coastal Carolina University since 2008. Learn more about Elizabeth here. Racquel Gill obtained her Masters of Divinity degree from Duke Divinity School in May of 2015, and currently serves as the Minister for Intercultural Engagement at Duke University Chapel in Durham. Racquel is the Theologian in Residence for RCWMS. Learn more about Racquel here.  Jeanette is the founder and executive director of RCWMS. Learn more about Jeanette here.

Crickets panel from The Terror Triptych