Engaging Art for Justice

Artist Rebecca Berru Davis is a graduate of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where she studied the intersection of art and religion. Her work explores the spiritual and religious expressions of those located on the margins of society or overlooked in the historical record. Since 2006, she has been engaged in an art exhibition project with Peruvian women artists who live in the shantytowns outside of Lima. The exhibition called Picturing Paradise draws attention to the beauty they create despite the challenging circumstances of their lives. Berru-Davis is currently the Louisville Institute Vocation of the Theological Educator Postdoctoral Fellow at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture Series