Explorations on Nature, Art, and Spirituality

• Main Author: Dy, Jason, SJ
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: Art Practice; Religion
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/magisterial-lectures/15; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=magisterial-lectures
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In this lecture, Fr. Jason shares his personal explorations on the intersection of nature, art, and spirituality. Speaker: Dy is a Jesuit priest and Filipino contemporary artist who is currently lecturing at the Fine Arts Department of the Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City. He is a self-taught artist who developed his artistic interests by attending art workshops, art classes, art conferences and art exhibitions as well as integrating art into his studies in theology and his pastoral ministry. In 2013, after being a parochial vicar at Sacred Heart Parish, Cebu City and holding his solo exhibition Testimony of What Remains at the Fernando Amorsolo Gallery, Cultural Center of the Philippines, he pursued his graduate studies in the arts, namely, MA by Creative Practice and MA in Art History and Curating at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Through his graduate studies, he is able to articulate his current creative practice that investigates into “the community and studio-based responses to changing religious and cultural circumstances, locations and events” (LHU).