Community Events

Currently on display through December 7, 2007

Erdman Art Gallery Exhibit: “Picturing Paradise: Textiles from the Peruvian Women of the Pamplona Alta as Visions of Hope”
Weekdays: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sunday, 2:30–9:00 p.m.
Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public

“Picturing Paradise: Textiles from the Peruvian Women of the Pamplona Alta as Visions of Hope” features textiles created by women of the Compacto Humano, a cooperative located in Pamplona Alta, a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. The exhibit places emphasis on the women as artists and the way that their art reflects resilience, faith, and hope in the midst of poverty. It acknowledges the women’s unique insights and voices manifested in the colorful hand-sewn textiles.

The embroidered textile work is the result of two separate commissioned projects conducted over the past two years. Hopes and Dreams (January 2006) consist of fifteen cuadros reflecting each woman’s personal aspiration for herself, her family, or for the world. Inspirations and Motivations (January 2007) depict narratives illustrating the individuals or the communities they draw on for support and the experiences or events that sustain them.

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December 1, 2007

Continuing Education Book Series
Meet the Author of Listen with Your Heart
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public (space is limited, so please register early)

How can we achieve a deeper connectedness with God? How can lectio divina (sacred reading as a way of prayer) be used as a spiritual gateway to deeper understanding? How can the natural wonders of the earth reveal the Presence that is in all things?

During the advent season we invite you to a morning of conversation about how to turn one’s prayer time into a deeper connection with God, through picture and word.

The Reverend Dr. Kathy J. Nelson is a Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) minister and president of the Funding Individual Spiritual Health Foundation of Plainsboro, New Jersey.

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December 3 and 4, 2007

The Students’ Lectureship on Missions: “The Transfiguration of Christianity: Insights for Christian Mission Today from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910”
Free and open to the public
All lectures will be held in the Main Lounge, Mackay Campus Center

Lecture I: “Visions of the Kingdom: Edinburgh 1910 and the History of Christianity”; Monday, December 3, 7:00 p.m.

Lecture II: “The World Comes to Edinburgh: the Conference in Session”; Tuesday, December 4, 1:15 p.m.

Lecture III: “The Legacy of Edinburgh 1910”; Tuesday, December 4, 7:00 p.m.

Speaker: Dr. Brian Stanley, director of the Henry Martyn Centre and Henry Martyn Lecturer in Mission Studies, Westminster College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 through Friday, January 4, 2008

Erdman Art Gallery Exhibit: “Visions of Wholeness: The Arts in Mission and the Mission of Art”
Weekdays: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sunday, 2:30–9:00 p.m.
Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public

“Visions of Wholeness: The Arts in Mission and the Mission of Art” features paintings by Rosemarie Adcock, and Linnea Gabriella Spransy, presenting two different approaches exemplifying the integration of the arts and Christian outreach.

The Reverend Rosemarie Adcock’s current work is a painting series intended for large public spaces, evangelism, and dialoguing of the Old Testament narratives as types of Christ, the coming Messiah, and other symbolic painting depicting biblical principles.

Adcock is an artist, speaker, evangelist, and the founder and president of Arts for Relief and Missions, an “association of music and arts Christian professionals working in the marketplace in their field of expertise or serving in ministry in that capacity, as in the cases of ministers of music and worship leaders of associated churches.”

Linnea Gabriella Spransy’s art is informed by architecture of fractal images which serve, in her words, “as an uncanny segue between the highly abstract and physcially familiar.” Spransy is delighted to have discovered that the “two most simultaneously antagonistic and essential elements in my life—art and mission—have finally interlaced.”

This exhibit is sponsored by the Erdman Center, the Theological Students’ Fellowship, and The Women’s Center at Princeton Theological Seminary.

An opening reception and artists’ talk will take place on Tuesday, December 11 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the Erdman Art Gallery.

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December 13, 2007

A Roundtable Discussion with The Reverend Rosemarie Adcock, Linnea Gabriella Spransy, Dr. Gordon Graham, and Dr. Darrell Guder
7:00–8:30 p.m.
Cooper Conference Room, Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public

The roundtable discussion presents the opportunity to reflect on the interplay between art and Christian mission with artists Adcock and Spransy, Gordon Graham, Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Darrell Guder, dean of academic affairs, and Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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December 19, 2007

Carols of Many Nations
6:30 and 8:30 p.m. (two identical services)
Miller Chapel
Free and open to the public

A service of readings, choral anthems, and congregational carols led by the Princeton Seminary Choir and international students and staff of the Seminary.

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