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Eastern Mennonite University’s Visual and Communication Arts (VaCA)<\/a>, in collaboration with the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (CJP)<\/a>, presents artist-in-residence and CJP student Frances Miller and her art\/performance installation “Renaming Infinity, in Search of a God Who Looks Like Me,” Saturday, Nov. 5, in the Hartzler Library gallery with live performances at 2 and 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

Miller’s show is the first chapter in the gallery’s exhibition series “Creative Instigations: Guided Journeys to Art and Community.”<\/p>\n

The series is an experimental process that involves a progression of gallery showings across disciplines and among artists. Each show will draw inspiration from the previous show and each artistic endeavor will serve as a catalyst for the next. In this way, artists will be acting in collaboration with each other throughout a series of presentations rather than creating from an isolated space.<\/p>\n

“We are doing this in hopes of fostering creative dialogue through the arts as a way of building community,” said Miller.\u00a0 “We hope to transform our gallery spaces into vibrant places of interaction rather than distilled spaces that are separate from communal life.\u00a0 A number of issues important to our community can be explored and re-envisioned within this context.”<\/p>\n

“The arts offer peacebuilders unique tools for transforming intractable interpersonal, intercommunal, national and global conflicts – tools that are not currently prevalent or available within the peacebuilding field,” said Lisa Schirch<\/a>, PhD, founding director of 3P Security. “The task for peacebuilding practitioners is to find strategic ways of incorporating the arts into the work of peacebuilding and to create a space where people in conflict can express themselves, heal themselves, and reconcile themselves through the arts.”<\/p>\n

A cutting-edge adventure<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Traditional art programs are becoming more focused on working in community and the peacebuilding world increasingly sees the arts as unique tools for healing and community building,” said Paulette Moore<\/a>, art galleries director and professor of the practice of media arts and peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University.<\/p>\n

VaCA students Susan Alexander and Katie Landis have been working with Miller throughout the fall, creating a blog and series films about the exhibit.\u00a0 Alexander and Landis will also help shape the next artistic chapter of the series.<\/p>\n

“The goal of\u00a0\u2019Renaming Infinity,’ is to examine how metaphors about God, especially gendered metaphors, shape our identity, perceptions and resulting life experiences,” said Miller.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 5, after the opening performance, individuals will be invited to respond visually and in sharing circles.<\/p>\n

“Arts and peacebuilding combined<\/a> is tremendously powerful,” said Miller. “We are excited for the opportunity to experiment and create new spaces and practices in both fields.”<\/p>\n

The next chapters of the series will be announced in December.<\/p>\n

For more information on the exhibit or the Eastern Mennonite University art galleries<\/a> contact Moore at paulette.moore@emu.edu or 703-597-7766.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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