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This exhibition is a series of works by one of DITA's doctoral students, Andrew Hendrixson, Th.D. '26. The gallery is comprised of a variety of pieces taken from across Hendrixson's body of work, composed from 2010 to 2024.

"Given this survey of works," Hendrixson writes, "the exhibit is not unduly concerned with achieving a thematic cohesion beyond works that bear more evidence of a mind thinking than of a mouth asserting. It seems to me that different kinds of inquiries necessarily require different modes of working. Sometimes this means employing oil paint on canvas; other times it means making Goodwill suits stand or stitching a thousand stitches into remnant fabric."

The title of the exhibit comes from the tent revivals of the artist's childhood. The gallery is installed in the 00 Westbrook Hallway, located on the bottom level of the Divinity School, and is available for viewing whenever the building is open. 

Andrew Hendrixson is an artist, writer, and Th.D. student at Duke Divinity School. He holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from the University of Florida and an MA in Religion & the Arts from Yale University. He has been an artist-in-residence at the University of Dayton, the Springfield Museum of Art, the Byrdcliffe Colony, and the Chautauqua Institute. His artwork and writing can be found in publications including New American Paintings, the Princeton Theological ReviewImage, the International Painting Annual, Yale Letters, and Best American Essays 2021

Andrew Hendrixson headshot

"It seems to me that different kinds of inquiries necessarily require different modes of working. Sometimes this means employing oil paint on canvas; other times it means making Goodwill suits stand or stitching a thousand stitches into remnant fabric."