James Patrick Reid
James Patrick Reid is a painter and scholar specializing in the intersection of art and theology. He has taught drawing and painting at Union College, the New York Academy of Art, the Art Students League, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, and teaches the history and theory of Catholic art for the Franciscan University of Steubenville. Mr. Reid’s writings have appeared in the monograph Intimations of Paradise: the Photographs of Christopher Burkett, and in various journals, including American Arts Quarterly, the Saint Austin Review, Prosopon, Seen, and (online) The Catholic Thing and The Imaginative Conservative.
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Upcoming Programs by James Patrick Reid
Saint Francis in the Desert: A Sacred Art Workshop
How does a painting manifest divine beauty? In this workshop, we will draw and paint a series of studies from Giovanni Bellini's masterpiece "Saint Francis in the Desert," guided by lectures and demonstrations investigating the qualities of line, shape, color, light, form, and composition, the theological dimension of these qualities, and their role in the […]