Featured Artist Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell: March

We’re thrilled to feature the powerful work of Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell for this year's newsletter! 🖼️✨ Each month we'll be sharing their artwork along with a description of the art from Carmelle herself. Enjoy her art which invites us to slow down, notice the details, and reflect on the deeper layers of meaning within and around us.

Carmelle Beaugelin Caldwell is an interdisciplinary artist and visual theologian whose work explores ancestral memory, sacred imagination, and communal care.

Website: carmellebeaugelin.com

Instagram: @carmellebcaldwell

Sinnerman (Album: Nina Simone, Pastel Blues 1965)

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

About The Art: Nina’s Liturgy: The Last Words

This visual collection, punctuated by the seven last recorded words of Jesus as he faces execution is carried along by a curated musical liturgy as sung by Nina Simone. The courage of Jesus in facing capital execution in fulfillment of a cosmic mission, alongside the courage of Miss Simone in challenging the structural racism of American culture through art and music, moves us to remember that Lent is an invitation into divine storytelling– a reminder that the Christian faith is as much about action and transformation as it is about contemplation and reflection.

Note: The title of each piece corresponds to a recorded Nina Simone Track. The caption for each painting is one of Christ’ Seven Last Words. The Artists encourage each peace to be contemplated alongside the scripture and the listening of the musical accompaniment by Nina Simone.

Materials: Charcoal, Gold Gilding Flakes, Acrylic on Paper, 11x14in