About
Margaret Adams Parker is a sculptor, painter, and printmaker with an extensive record of exhibitions and commissions. Her works include the award-winning Mary as Prophet for Virginia Theological Seminary, Reconciliation for Duke Divinity School, Harriet Tubman for St Paul’s Church, Rock Creek Parish, Washington DC, The Communion of Saints for St. Agnes Catholic Church, Shepherdstown, WV, and a set of painted Stations of the Cross at the Duke University Chapel.
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 F. Davis, of Who are you, my
daughter? Reading Ruth through Image and Text (Westminster John Knox, 2003.) Her work is in the collection of the Library of Congress and has been published by Christian Century, Tikkun, Augsburg Fortress Press, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Parker holds the BA from Wellesley College, the MFA from American University, and has been awarded a Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship. Parker served as Artist in Residence at the Luce Center for Art and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington DC, and as a Fellow with the Calvin College Summer Seminars and the Association for Religion & Intellectual Life.
Parker hopes to enlarge the canon of religious imagery by depicting holy figures as persons from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages. (Revelation 7:9)