Margaret Adams Parker is a sculptor, painter, and printmaker with an extensive record of exhibitions. Her liturgical commissions include sculptures for Duke Divinity School, Virginia Theological Seminary, and churches across the country; painted Stations of the Cross for the University Chapel at Duke University; and etched glass designs for churches in West Virginia and Washington DC. The Episcopal Church in Navajoland recently installed her painting, Diyin Christ of the Diné (Holy Christ of the Navajo.)
A Senior Lecturer at Virginia Theological Seminary, Parker is co-author, with Katherine Sonderegger, of Praying the Stations of the Cross – Finding Hope in a Weary Land (Eerdmans 2019) and, with Ellen Davis, of Who are you, my daughter? Reading Ruth through Image and Text (Westminster John Knox 2003.) Her work in in the collection of the Library of Congress and has been published by Christian Century, Tikkun, Augsburg Fortress Press, and the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees.
Ms. Parker hopes to enlarge the canon of religious imagery by depicting holy figures “from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages. (Revelation 7:9) Read more about her at www.margaretadamsparker.com.
