About the Studio — ARTFAITHHISTORY (3)

the mission of the studio is to put the arts back to work in the places where

churches, schools, and communities gather to do their work

Entranced, a young fellow comes closer to the action in the play about The Fall, performed in front of the Orvieto Duomo, in the production of Strangers & Other Angels by Karin Coonrod’s Compagnia de’ Colombari. Dissolving the invisible walls be… — Entranced, a young fellow comes closer to the action in the play about The Fall, performed in front of the Orvieto Duomo, in the production of *Strangers & Other Angels* by Karin Coonrod’s *Compagnia de’ Colombari*. Dissolving the invisible walls between art and action, turning spectators into participants, is the work of the *Studio for Art, Faith & History*. (Photo credit Massimo Achille)

Adam and Eve bit the apple, from the Creation and Fall performed in front of the Duomo (photo Massimo Achille)

“Glory to God in the Highest …” The angels who appeared to the shepherds were framed in light from the belltower of Sant’Andrea. (photo Massimo Achille)

In January we have the Sala dei Nove in the Siena palazzo pubblico, with Lorenzetti’s frescoes of good and bad government, all to ourselves.

The Lilly Foundation Summer Seminar for College Teachers discussing how to cross the divide between art departments and theology-Bible departments, with the Madonna della Misericordia painting accomplished by Bruce Herman and Matthew Milliner and their students.

The Carmelite nuns in the Reign of Terror: stepping through the guillotine and into the Light.

Yes, please touch. A little girl has a close encounter with one of the Stations of the Cross painted by Gay Cox and arranged slalom-like on the ski slope location of SoulFest summer music festival in the mountains of New Hampshire. The Studio has sponsored installations of Cox’s Traveling Tabernacles.

Reciting speeches in the amphitheater at Ostia Antica.

Studying the frescoes in the Chapter House of the Dominican Santa Maria Novella monastery in Florence.

The January 2019 theater project of the Studio and KaminaTeatro: a play about the legendary Saint Julian the Hospitaler, parricide and penitent, staged under the ruined fresco of the story, long forgotten even by the local folk, in the church of Sant’Andrea.

A “Jerusalem & Athens” winter seminar group enjoying the view from the fort in Piazza Cahen.

Balak rapping, skeptical of the prophet Balaam and his talking donkey.