How a Small Art Studio in Utah Can Lead Out in Helping Abandon Attitudes and Actions of Prejudice in the US Through Developing an Art Movement Promoting Greater Peace, Love, and Unity. Público

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A small art studio in Utah (Paulson Creativity Studio, LLC) is working to become a force in helping to abandon attitudes and actions of prejudice. Though progress has been made since the days of chattel slavery, the antebellum South, and Jim Crow laws, much remains to be done because racial inequality, police brutality, oppression, and contemporary situations filled with racist violence continue. Attitudes and actions of prejudice are significant causes of systemic racism, and this work advances a solution through building greater peace, love, and unity to help people abandon them. A new art movement called “Totalityism” is developing by merging art with Christ-centered theology as a catalyst for social change. Like Martin Luther King Jr., who actively combined theology with social change in his time as a minister, Totalityism is based on art and theology, enjoying enriching vitality when they interact and become a force for social change. Artists from the past, including Romare Bearden, Sam Doyle, Norman Rockwell, and others, utilized their art to bring attention to social issues and to advocate change, which, along with the lives and teachings of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Russell M. Nelson, inform this project. Resources engaged to help answer the problem of race prejudice began with the Gandhi-King-Mandela Peace Prize given by Morehouse College to Russell M. Nelson. Timothy Paulson created several paintings as part of a new ministry innovation with the theoretical insight that merging art and theology centered on Christ, with an intention for social impact, moves people and can trigger attention to stimulate change. The conclusion shares that which has been learned from this project, the progress made to date, and the future of the work of helping to abandon attitudes and actions of prejudice.

 

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School	Candler School of Theology
Department	Ministry
Degree	DMin
Submission	Dissertation
Language	English
Research Field	Education, Art African American Studies Art History
Palavra-chave	Love LACMA Art Peace Prize Paulson Sam Doyle Racism Kandinsky Martin Luther King, Jr. Howard Thurman Romare Bearden Social Change Gandhi Social Impact Art History High Art Gallery Peace Prejudice Mandela Morehouse College Unity Russell M. Nelson Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Committee Chair / Thesis Advisor	R. Kendall Soulen, Emory University Roger Nam, Emory University

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