Speaker: Dr. Sarah Maple, Research Scholar, University of Oxford
Tuesday, September 29 | McCosh 28 | 5-6:15pm
Join us for a lecture by Dr. Sarah Maple, a painter, theologian, and professor who presents the artist as a model for anyone seeking to live well and pursue truth. Drawing on her new book (to be released October 2026), Maple proposes that the arts – and Abstract Expressionist painting in particular – are “capable of holding the weight of metaphysical truths.” Through art and creativity, Maple restores an understanding of the origins of humanity, our nature, and our responsibility.
Dr. Sarah Maple’s work emphasizes the intersection of creative bodily expression, the sacred imagination, and the interior life of the artist. She lectures graduate students in theology and art at both the University of Notre Dame and St. Joseph’s Seminary. She is a Research Scholar at The William G. Congdon Foundation and the University of Oxford’s Blackfriars Hall within the Centre for Theology and the Arts.
This lecture will be recorded.
