In conjunction with the closing of the\u00a0Environmental\u00a0Art\u00a0Show at the Weinberg Memorial Library, members of the University community are invited to join for “Waymarks Toward Reunion: Making Beauty as a Return to the Earth,” an\u00a0artist talk with Patrick Beldio, Ph.D. and Waymarks Fellow Gabriella Palmer ’26 on April 21 at 5 p.m. in the Charles Kratz Scranton Heritage Room.<\/p>\n
What does it mean to return \u2014 to the earth, to ourselves, to what is sacred in the ordinary? This talk brings together a sculptor and a playwright at a shared creative threshold:<\/p>\n
* Beldio,\u00a0Artist-in-Residence at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land and Visiting Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at The University of Scranton, introduces his grant-funded program Waymarks Toward Reunion and reflects on his own creative and spiritual practices, and how these inform and are informed by his scholarship and teaching in the classroom.<\/p>\n
* Palmer ’26, a Scranton student and Waymarks Fellow, shares her latest original play: a retelling of “The Prodigal Son” as family drama with magical realism, that also examines the theme of reunion with nature.<\/p>\n
Beldio and Palmer will discuss what making\u00a0art\u00a0asks of both\u00a0artist and audience, what the word reunion means in a week devoted to the Earth, and how they each entered the creative threshold from different doors. The talk concludes with a Q&A.<\/p>\n
Planning To Attend? Get the Details.<\/p>\n
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be available.<\/p>\n
The 2026\u00a0Environmental\u00a0Art\u00a0Show runs from April 13 to 22 in the Charles Kratz Scranton Heritage Room and is open to the public during the library’s operational hours.<\/p>\n
Direct questions regarding this event to Marleen Cloutier via email at marleen.cloutier@scranton.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In conjunction with the closing of the\u00a0Environmental\u00a0Art\u00a0Show at the Weinberg Memorial Library, members of the University community are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-160650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}