Art

On a frigid January afternoon, students, faculty, staff, and alumni from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard College stepped carefully around the ice and snow surrounding Walden Pond. Accompanied only by a phone camera and a spirit of open curiosity, they...

Over the 2023-24 academic year, HDS Writer-in Residence Terry Tempest Williams and Professor Stephanie Paulsell led 16 students from the classroom to the landscape of Great Salt Lake through a year-long seminar. The course, “Walking the Inland Sea: Desert...

Tara Yazdan Panah is a first-year master of theological studies student at Harvard Divinity School. Her research interests include exploring the intersection of spiritual affect and artistic expression as well as childhood mystical experiences. In...

Harvard Divinity School recently hosted Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and legendary gospel artist Twinkie Clark, who talked about her musical journey and performed from her catalog of over 350 songs. Scholars Charrise Barron, Assistant...

Abstract art has long served as a vessel for artists — think Hilma af Klint or Wassily Kandinsky — to explore religion and spirituality. Isabel Haro ’24, a concentrator in art, film, and visual studies with a secondary in music, was inspired to pursue a...

This interview is one in an ongoing series exploring the intersection of art and religion in HDS courses. How can we imagine a better world from within our current context? When Charles Hallisey , MDiv ’78, and Molly Silverstein, MDiv ’22, began...

Kris Tompkins, former CEO of Patagonia and president of Tompkins Conservation, joined writer-in-residence Terry Tempest Williams and filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi in a conversation connecting academia, art, and spirituality to reckon with the climate crisis...

This interview is one in an ongoing series exploring the intersection of art and religion in HDS courses. The Harvard Divinity School course, “Spiritual Paths to Abstract Art,” is more than just an academic exploration. Led by Ann Braude, Senior Lecturer...

For Sitalin Sánchez, a second-year master of theological studies degree candidate at Harvard Divinity School, religion and the arts are inseparable. She is an illustrator, designer, poet, dancer, and academic. Art is not her hobby. It is her research...