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Planting Letters and Weaving Lines with guest teacher, PROFESSOR JOANNA HOMRIGHAUSEN

May 26 @ 8:00 am - June 2 @ 10:00 am

Join us for two sessions of our Adult Forum with guest teacher Professor JOANNA HOMRIGHAUSEN, Planting Letters and Weaving Lines, (and daughter of parishioner, April Flowers!) on Sundays May 26 & June 2 at 9:00 AM in the Wilkinson Center.

Professor Homrighausen, teaches Judaic Studies at the College of William and Mary. She will discuss her book, Planting Letters and Weaving Lines, centering on The Saint John’s Bible which was commissioned by St. John’s Abbey and the University of St. John. The Abbey and the University asked renowned calligrapher Donald Jackson to create a hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible.Professor Homrighausen uses poetic images of the biblical Song of Songs and the letters of this unique Bible to show how to look at letters as art. During the two sessions, she will show how writing is like weaving, how a page is a garden, and how even the form of this Bible brings life out of death.

Professor Homrighausen is captivated by the religious worlds people create and inhabit, how words fashion such worlds, and how language is made sensory and tangible in writing and in sound. She recently received her doctorate degree in Religious Studies from Duke University, and she is now into her third year teaching Biblical Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the College of William and Mary. Homrighausen has written two books on calligraphy and sacred text: Planting Letters and Weaving Lines (2022) and Illuminating Justice (2018).In 2021, during COVID lockdown, she curated a virtual exhibit, Visual Music: Calligraphy and Sacred Texts for Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary. Homrighausen’s current project, Sensory Letters, examines the lettering arts and wooden sculptures of Martin Wenham.

Following the sessions, there will be a book signing.


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Start:
May 26 @ 8:00 am
End:
June 2 @ 10:00 am
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