PROF. CHRIS CUTHILL
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Assistant Professor & Chair of Art
Phone: 905.648.2139 Ext 4523
Fax: 905.648.2134
Office:
Email: ccuthil@redeemer.ca
Courses taught 2011/2012:
ART225/HIS 211 Art History I ART226/HIS212 Art History II ART352 Art and the Imagination ART380 Directed Studio & Exhibition FIN103 Introduction to the Fine Arts ART103 Fundamentals of Art
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Candidate, Aesthetics and Theology, Institute for Christian Studies in conjunction with the Vrije Universiteit
M.A. (1999), Philosophical Aesthetics, Institute for Christian Studies
Thesis: "Mutilated Music: Towards an After Auschwitz Aesthetic."
B.A. (1996), Art, Redeemer University College
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Art and the Holocaust
- Iconoclasm in Jewish and Christian traditions
- Dialogue between faith and art
- Religious kitsch & propaganda
- Faith and popular culture
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
"Andy Warhol’s Last Supper" Christian Courier, April 2009.
"Art and the Prophetic Imagination" Christian Educators’ Journal, vol. 48, num. 2. December 2008.
"Making the Most of College: Looking at Paintings." Comment, Work Research Foundation. June 2006.
Jesus in Auschwitz: The Appropriation of Christian Iconography in Post-Holocaust Art. The 21st National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York City. October 2008.
Modernity, Art and Christian Worldview: The Legacy of Hans Rookmaaker’s Critique of Modern Art. The 20th National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York City. October 2007.
Imaging the Old Old Story: Narrative-based Art Within the Protestant Tradition. The 18th National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York City. October 2005.
"Restoration or Rest: Jubilee and the Holocaustal Ruins." Sacred Earth, Sacred Community: Jubilee, Ecology and Aboriginal Peoples. (Toronto: Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative, 2000)
The Theological Potential of Music: An Evaluation of Jeremy Begbie’s ‘Theology Music and Time’. With Adrienne Chaplin et al. Christian Scholars Review XXXIII:1 (Fall 2003)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Christians in the Visual Arts
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Art Gallery Director, Redeemer University College, January 2004-present
Practicing Artist. Various media, primarily watercolour painting, pen & ink.
Work shown in Canada, U.S.A. and Europe in juried exhibitions.
Works in several personal collections.
Freelance Graphic Design. London and Hamilton Fringe Festivals, Redeemer University College, Doorway Publications, Institute for Christian Studies.
Set and Lighting Design. Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts, Redeemer University College
Curator. IMAGO, Toronto. 2002
Curator. Institute for Christian Studies Art Gallery. 1998-2003.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Elder and Home Church Leader. The Meeting House, East Hamilton. 2006-present.
RELEVANT LINKS
Christians in the Visual Arts
IMAGO