Spirituality and Eco-art: Blurring Boundaries and Creating Interconnected Relationship
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Abstract
Workshop: Seeing the earth as comprising inanimate objects, as an it, we are deprived of experiencing the earth as the spiritual, bountiful place that it is. This workshop offers art as an opportunity to blur the boundaries and experience relationship with the earth as a lively, spiritual place. This is a workshop about our spiritual interconnection, our interbeing. We will explore art as an epistemology to experience the small and “mundane” earth – available to all people, everywhere in the world, at all times. We will then create art outdoors - visualize, draw, paint, write, sing... – and re-gather to share our spiritual creations.
Presenter Biographies
Jenellen Good, Ph.D. (Cornell University) is an associate professor in the department of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University (Ontario, Canada). She researches, writes and teaches at intersections of screens, an earth in crisis and spirituality. She is especially interested in exploring how eco-spirituality can counter the meta materialism story.
Etsuko Kinefuchi, Ph.D. (Arizona State University) is a professor of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty with Geography, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She is interested in studying and practicing communication to create a life-affirming world. She serves on the Board of the International Environmental Communication Association.