Sarah McCune is the
current Student Christian Movement-USA National Organizer. She received
her Bachelor of Arts in English from Birmingham-Southern College and was
active in her colleges' Allies movement. In 2010 McCune was a Hess
Fellow partnered with the United Nations Alliance and Civilizations and a
member of the 2011 Moore Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
cohort at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is currently enrolled at the Graduate
Theological Union, affiliated with the Pacific School of Religion, in
Berkeley, California where she is a Master’s candidate in Art and
Religion. Highlights of seminary have included SCM-LTP meetings,
designing sacred spaces, meeting Pat Schneider, and meeting people
excited about good news. Sarah has used her seminary education as
foundation for new artistic exploration: her first exhibition, “Ossuary:
Exhuming Poetry” was inspired by Ezekiel’s Valley of Dry Bones, her
mixed media piece “Prayer in a Time of Distress” won first place for
visual art in the National Religion Campaign Against Torture’s Call for
Art--Life in a Box - Solitary Confinement: Torture in Your Backyard, and
she is currently working on a new series about biblical call stories
using candle wax. Recently she launched her new website Thy Flesh and
Thy Bone, which explores art as incarnational theology.
Art Project: Altar*ed
Sarah
will lead an art project that extend for the three days of the
conference with a concrete outcome of displaying the art in welcoming
congregations across the country.
The
project will be a photographic exploration of bodies as church altars.
Participants will be required to sign a waiver and be willing to help
implement this project idea.
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