Religious Sanctuary Creating Peace Through Art in Portland

PORTLAND TRIBUNE
By Josh Kulla

Artwork by founder Father John Domin in SSA collection

OREGON---Though all art is sacred to Paula Hamilton, religious artwork is even more so. As executive director of Sanctuary for Sacred Arts, collecting and cataloging sacred art is now her job. Sanctuary for Sacred Arts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving theology and the arts. Its mission is “to foster and encourage the promotion, use, development, study and preservation of sacred arts and architecture.” Sanctuary for Sacred Arts not only displays religious art in churches, including St. Francis of Assisi, but also in colleges, universities, abbeys and other religious and public spaces in the Pacific Northwest. Also, Hamilton is working to gather images of sacred art and architecture from all religions on its website, s4sa.org, thanks to an American Theology Library Association grant. [link]