Joyce del Rosario

Beauty Is a Basic Service

Arts & Literature

“Maria Fee's focus on the life and work of Theaster Gates has expanded my imagination and understanding of how to approach social transformation in action. For faith-rooted leaders, her theological connections to creating, creation, and the created, set within the hospitality practices of Gates, offer community activists ways to engage in art and the public in an embodied way that lends itself to the spiritual encounters of both the Divine and neighbors. I am thankful to Fee for lifting up the work of Gates as a theological practice that pushes and challenges the way in which we see and dwell in our neighborhoods.”