The Art of Finding Home: Creative Pilgrimage and Placemaking at Immanuel Baptist Church, Paducah, KY

Brittany Riddle

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The Art of Finding Home: Creative Pilgrimage and Placemaking at Immanuel Baptist Church, Paducah, KY

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Brittany Riddle. The Art of Finding Home: Creative Pilgrimage and Placemaking At Immanuel Baptist Church, Paducah, Ky. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/46f7f2a7-6edc-4613-b2f0-753cee0d82e7.

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B. Riddle. The Art of Finding Home: Creative Pilgrimage and Placemaking at Immanuel Baptist Church, Paducah, KY. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/46f7f2a7-6edc-4613-b2f0-753cee0d82e7

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Brittany Riddle. The Art of Finding Home: Creative Pilgrimage and Placemaking At Immanuel Baptist Church, Paducah, Ky. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/46f7f2a7-6edc-4613-b2f0-753cee0d82e7.

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Creator

Brittany Riddle

Keyword

Church and community

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Abstract

By guiding participants to reflect on scripture and their life experiences through the creation of art in various mediums, this project was designed to teach a model of creative, theological reflection in order to provide artists at Immanuel Baptist Church in Paducah, KY with the opportunity to deepen their creative identity, to claim their identity as people who are created in the image of a creative and creating God, and to form meaningful community through shared, creative practices.Participants gathered for seven weeks to visually and creatively reflect on themes of home and community in scripture as a way to practice creative placemaking. By sharing stories, practicing lectio divina, and creating art together, the artists were invited on an inward journey that encouraged theological reflection as an embodied, creative process rather than simply an intellectual exercise. At the end of the seven weeks, participants showed significant movement in the depth of their theological reflections as well as a greater sense of connection to each other and belonging within the congregation.

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