{"id":1930,"date":"2024-06-12T19:21:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T19:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/programs\/conference\/?page_id=1930"},"modified":"2024-10-01T16:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T16:40:55","slug":"2024-speakers-artists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cslewis.org\/programs\/conference\/2024-mass\/2024-speakers-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Speakers & Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Below, you will find our current list of speakers, artists, and session leaders. We will be adding names as they are confirmed, so check back regularly!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bruce Herman<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Bruce Herman is a painter, writer, and speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herman\u2019s art has been shown in more than 150 exhibitions \u2014 nationally in many US cities, including New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Houston \u2014 and internationally in England, Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, Canada, and Israel. His artwork is featured in many public and private art collections including the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art in Rome; The Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts print collection; The Grunewald Print Collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; DeCordova Museum in Boston; the Cape Ann Museum; and in many colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herman taught at Gordon College for nearly four decades, and is the founding chair of the Art Department there. He held the Lothl\u00f3rien Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts for more than fifteen years, and continues to curate exhibitions and manage the College art collection there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herman completed both BFA and MFA degrees at Boston University College of Fine Arts under American artists Philip Guston, James Weeks, David Aronson, Reed Kay, and Arthur Polonsky. He was named Boston University College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumnus of the Year 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herman\u2019s art may be found in dozens of journals, popular magazines, newspapers, and online art features. He and co-author Walter Hansen wrote the book Through Your Eyes<\/em><\/a>: The Art of Bruce Herman<\/a><\/em>, 2013, Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, a thirty-year retrospective of Herman\u2019s art as seen through the eyes of his most dedicated collector. Other publications include Ordinary Saints<\/em><\/a>, a collaborative project with J.A.C. Redford and Malcolm Guite, and QU4RTETS<\/em><\/a>, a collaboration with Jeremy Begbie, Makoto Fujimura, and Christopher Theofanidis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read more about Herman’s plenary address to the 2024 C.S. Lewis Conference & Faculty Forum here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.bruceherman.com\/<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margaret I. Hughes<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A native of Connecticut, Dr. Hughes<\/a> is a graduate of the University of Chicago. She earned her master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in philosophy at Fordham University, where she taught undergraduate philosophy, and then served for six years at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York. She is now a Tutor (professor) at Thomas Aquinas College \u2013 New England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her interests run both broad and deep, as might be observed in the titles of some of her publications and presentations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n