Art as Spiritual Practice: An Interview with Stuart Hobbs

For people of faith, the attempt at teaching and understanding the divine is frequently done through the various media of art. Whether music, literature, poetry, or sculpture, these are grasps at the ultimately ungraspable. For the Lenten Season of 2023, Ohio artist Stuart Hobbs created a series of paintings for his parish, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio. The installation is a series based on the Seven Last Words of Jesus. In this episode, Boisi Center director, Mark Massa, S.J., speaks with Hobbs about the installation and the relationship between art and spirituality.

 

For more information on the Seven Last Words installation, see http://ststephens-columbus.org/seven-last-words-of-jesus-a-lenten-art-show-in-the-sanctuary-beginning-ash-wednesday/.

And to learn more about the artist and see his other works, visit https://www.columbusmakesart.com/artist/8962-stuart-d-hobbs.

Credits:

Podcast Host: Mark Massa, S.J.

Production: R. Zachary Karanovich

Music: • Bourree 4th Lute Suite; Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com); Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.
• Double Violin Concerto 1st Movement; Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com); Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.• Bourree 4th Lute Suite; Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com); Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.• Double Violin Concerto 1st Movement; Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com); Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/.