Alumni in the area should visit the Evergreen Library lobby before January 11, 2013 to see this display of students’ illuminated manuscripts from the program Religion, Society and Change.
Rebecca Chamberlain (right), students and selected images from her program Religion, Society and Change. In February, Rebecca will facilitate an Evergreen Traveling Seminar on storytelling for Greeners and friends in Los Angeles.
Illuminated manuscripts: the tactile relationship between word and image; the ways in which manuscripts mirror the self. We explore manuscripts through the lenses of interpretation, religion, art history; we draw upon manuscript traditions — Jewish, Muslim, and Christian, the ancient, medieval, modern.The images ask questions: what is the relationship between word and image? Mythos and logos? Spirit and flesh? Suffering and joy? Personal and cultural? Humans and the natural world?
We seek a deeper understanding of the contexts and forms of various manuscript traditions – awareness of pattern, texts, images and rituals, that enhance our understanding of poetic and lyrical word-play –“meaning making.”
We engage with ideas of the sacred and profane, mythic and historic. We pursue deeper understanding of the power of poetic and visual imagination.
Rebecca will present an Evergreen Traveling Seminar in Los Angeles on February 9, 2013. Her co-facilitator will be writer/animator Craig Bartlett ’81. Topic: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Students did a terrific job with their illuminated manuscripts, which engaged those passing through the library with stories, images, and questions based on themes from religious and iconic art.