October 11, 2014, New York City, NY
In partnership with The King’s College and All Angels’ Church, CIVA has created this forum to serve artists, curators, critics, and professors who are deeply engaged in Serious Art, Serious Faith. The CIVA symposium is an excellent opportunity to consider the deep issues facing artists and the church and learn from leaders in the field offering practical solutions for navigating the art world. Please join us!
The registration fee is $55 for CIVA Members, $70 for non-members. Registration includes a free Friday evening opening reception and the complete 9 – 5 program on Saturday. Coffee and afternoon snacks will be provided, but lunch is not included with registration. Register Now Online.
Symposium Location and Schedule
Saturday October 11 Symposium
The King’s College, 56 Broadway, New York, NY 10004. (map)
8:00 AM – Coffee & Registration
9:00 AM – Welcome (Mark Hijleh, Provost, The King’s College) & Introductions (Wayne Adams, Symposium Moderator)
9:30 AM – Session 1: The Art World – Kelly Crow & John Silvis (moderated conversation with Dan Siedell)
11:00 AM – Dan Siedell Interviews Eleanor Heartney
Noon – 1:30 PM- Lunch Break
1:30 PM – Session 2: Art & the Church – Kathryn Reklis & Taylor Worley (moderated conversation with Dan Siedell)
3:00 PM – Coffee Break
3:30 PM – Session 3: Theology & the Art World – Panel Discussion – Wayne Adams, Albert Pedulla + guests
5:00 PM – Closing Remarks – Cam Anderson
Sunday October 12 Guided Museum Experience at MoMA, with Daniel Siedell (Optional, $40 including admission)
11:30 AM (Tour is filled)
Symposium Featured Speakers
Daniel Siedell, The King’s College
Kelly Crow, Wall Street Journal
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University
John Silvis, Founder of Outlet Gallery
Taylor Worley, Union University
Eleanor Heartney, Contemporary Critic and Author
(see speaker bios, below)
Kelly Crow @KellyCrowWSJ
is a staff reporter covering the art world for The Wall Street Journal. In 2011, she won a Clarion Award from the Association of Women in Communications for her art coverage. In 2010, she was a finalist for the Society of Professional Journalists’ Deadline Club Award for her art coverage. In 2009, she won the Newswomens Club of New York’s Front Page Award for her story about an FBI agent who chases down stolen art, “From the Art World to the Underworld.” Before joining the Journal in 2005, she wrote for the New York Times, based at the City desk where she covered city government, neighborhoods and the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. She also helped Pulitzer-Prize winner James B. Stewart report DisneyWar, a 2005 nonfiction narrative about the Walt Disney Company during Michael Eisner’s final years as CEO of the company. The book reached No. 5 on the New York Times Bestsellers’ List. She has helped teach classes at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her master’s degree in 2000. In 2011, she joined the board of the Newswomens Club’s Anne O’Hare McCormick Scholarship Fund, which gives scholarships to women reporters studying journalism at Columbia. She splits her time between New York and Washington, D.C.
Kathryn Reklis @KathrynReklis
is Assistant Professor of Modern Protestant Theology at Fordham University in New York City. She holds a PhD in religious studies from Yale University, where she concentrated in historical and constructive Christian theology. Her first book, Theology and the Kinesthetic Imagination: Jonathan Edwards and the Making of Modernity (June 2014, Oxford University Press), explores the intersection of theology and performance studies to investigate the role of the body, desire, and beauty as sources for theological knowledge in the making of modernity. The project engages the colonial puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards and his writings about ecstatic bodily experience of the divine. In addition to her work in academic theology, she is the co-founder of The Moth Chase, a blog on pop culture, gender, religion, and other big questions of life; an erstwhile contributor to the Imminent Frame; and a regular contributor to the “On Media” column at The Christian Century. She is also Co-Director of the Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice at Union Theological Seminary, where she served as Director of Theological Initiatives and Senior Adviser to the President from 2008-2011. She lives in Astoria, Queens with her husband and her train-loving son, who will be joined by a baby sister in fall 2014.
Taylor Worley @TaylorWorley
serves as the Assistant Vice President for University Ministries and as an Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He completed a Ph.D. in the areas of contemporary art and theological aesthetics in the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at the University of St. Andrews. He is a co-editor of Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Conversations with the Work of David Brown (Oxford University Press, 2012) and contributed to Re-Enchantment (The Art Seminar), co-edited by James Elkins and David Morgan (Routledge, 2009).
Daniel A. Siedell @DanSiedell
(Ph.D. The University of Iowa) is Presidential Scholar & Art Historian in Residence at The King’s College in New York City. He was previously Professor of Modern Art at the University of Nebraska and organized over one hundred exhibitions and worked with numerous contemporary artists on exhibition and book projects during his decade-long tenure as Chief Curator of the Sheldon Museum of Art. His books include Weldon Kees and the Arts at Midcentury, Martínez Celaya: Early Work, and God in the Gallery. He served as the inaugural Scholar-in-Residence at the New City Arts Initiative in Charlottesville (2012-13). A collection of essays on modern art & theology is forthcoming from Cascade Books.
John Silvis @SilvisJohn
is a Brooklyn-based artist and curator. He received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and has received numerous grants and awards, including a commission for the Essl Collection in Vienna. Silvis’ recent art research has taken him to Beijing, Berlin and Zurich. Some recent exhibitions include “Crashcourse IV,” Norte Maar, “What I Know,” NYCAMS, New York (2012), “Crashcourse III,” Olson Gallery, Bethel University, MN (2012), and “Goodbye Space Shuttle,” Active Space, Brooklyn (2011). His recent curatorial projects include “New. New York,” Essl Museum, Vienna (2012), “1000 Rainbows,” Lia Chavez, First Things Gallery, New York (2012), and “Life Drawing,” Joshua Cave, First Things Gallery, New York (2013) and a forthcoming exhibition “With Love from Brooklyn” at the FADA Gallery at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2014).
Eleanor Heartney is the author of many books and articles on art and culture including Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art. Her awards include the College Art Association’s Frank Jewett Mather Award and the French government’s Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Here are a few resources to help you get acquainted with our featured speakers:
False Rivals by Taylor Worley
Three Questions for Daniel Siedell
A Conversation with Wayne Adams and Daniel Siedell