Welcome to Illuminations: Student Voices on the Arts!
Illuminations is a showcase for the work of our fine students,
usually produced in courses on the sacred arts here at St. Vladimir’s.
Illuminations is curated by Dr. Rossitza Schroeder, associate professor of
art history at our seminary and assistant director of the Institute of Sacred Arts.
John Capones is a first-year MDiv student. In this post he shows how the icon of the Anastasis can help structure a homily and inspire its content. He also reveals the icon’s participatory nature by including invitations to the faithful to imagine themselves as the characters represented in it. Indeed, John offers a perfect example of the marriage of the verbal and the visual.
Read MoreElizabeth Bouteneff joined St Vladimir’s as a special student in the Fall of 2020. Her interest in art history and her love for icons, led her to an heirloom of sorts—a small icon with the Virgin and Child which belonged to her grandmother. Elizabeth’s offering is an invitation to experience the materiality of the icon as an inevitable and important conduit for its spiritual messages.
Read MoreMatthew Poozhikunnel is an MDiv student from the Malankara Orthodox Church. Here he offers a meditation on a small icon of St Anthony painted in the Coptic style and demonstrates how its visual aspects allow the viewer to relate the image to the saint’s vita while furthering his or her understanding of asceticism and its role in the lives of Orthodox Christians.
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