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Board Members

Jennifer Awes-Freeman
Jennifer Awes Freeman is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of St Thomas for 2016-2018 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Louisville Institute, and also teaches medieval art at the University of Minnesota. 

Valerie Bridgeman

Valerie Bridgeman is president & CEO of WomanPreach! Inc. and adjuncts for various seminaries. She is consultant to the Academy of Preachers and a published poet and performing artist. Her research is as a Womanist biblical and homiletical scholar, and in the area of the arts—all in service to justice.

​William Cahoy

Bill Cahoy is dean of the School of Theology at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, a position he has held since 1999.

​Cláudio Carvalhaes

Cláudio Carvalhaes is a theologian and artist.

Amy E. Gray

Amy Gray is a practicing artist, Associate Director of the Luce Center for the Arts & Religion, and Assistant Professor of the Arts & Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC.

​Cindi Beth Johnson

Cindi Beth Johnson is director of community programming in the arts, religion and spirituality at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. She is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and is a regular writer for "Behold:  Arts for the Church Year."

​Paul Myhre

Rev. Dr. Paul O. Myhre is the president of SARTS, and currently serves as an associate director for the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion.

​Maureen O'Connell

Maureen H. O’Connell is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Chair the Department of Religion at LaSalle University in Philadelphia.

Elizabeth Peña

Elizabeth Peña is the Executive Director of CARE: Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education, an affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union.

​John Shorb

John Shorb is a visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

Kimberly Vrudny

Kimberly Vrudny is an associate professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the senior editor of ARTS: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, the academic journal of SARTS.

​Janet Walton

Janet R. Walton is Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary in New York, NY. Her research and teaching focus on ritual traditions and practices in religious communities, with particular interest in artistic dimensions, feminist perspectives, and commitments to justice.

​Wilson Yates

Wilson Yates is president emeritus of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities as well as professor emeritus of religion, society and the arts. Ordained in the United Methodist Church, he holds dual standing in the United Church of Christ.