Visions of the Sacred: Conversations with Bahá’í Artists began as a doctoral dissertation. A variety of experience had led me to understand that the arts are not only integral to our appreciation of beauty, or to confront us with the challenges of the world, or to delight us, or to make us laugh, or to be invited into wonder … and more. The arts can encourage our capacity to sense what spirituality means. The dissertation allowed me to interview 12 accomplished, seasoned artists who could speak to that process, and to describe themes that emerged in our conversations.
The Artists
I am deeply thankful to Sasha Rogers, Sky Glabush, Shadi Toloui-Wallace, Otto Don Rogers, Carol Evans, Hooper Dunbar, Siamak Hariri, Shaughnessy Johnson , Paula Murray, Pancho Amenábar, Lisa Puzon , and Roger Bansemer.
All of them are specially skilled in their field, and each is eloquent about their work which includes different styes of visual art, music, architecture, pottery, and sculpture.
I’m ever grateful to the Association for Bahá’í Studies for inviting me to shift the research from a dissertation format into a book that might be interesting to others. Information about that book can be found towards the end of this page.
But first, I’d like to share two short videos that include all the artists…
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Visions of the Sacred: Conversations with Bahá’í Artists 