The topic for this semester is Imagining the Divine: Religion and Art. This class uses hands-on projects in a Technology Enhanced classroom to study the relationship between art and religion. Centered on important themes in religious art from the Judeo-Christian tradition, the class will explore the nature and function of both art and religion,: the ways in which art attempts to provide material access to the divine, the ways art (and the destruction of art) can represent power and creates religious identity, and how art helps to transform ordinary objects (e.g. writings, body parts) into sites of spiritually powerful transcendence. More specifically, we will look at the topics of iconography, relics, ritual, canonicity, superstition, colonialism, cultural appropriation and exchange, religious architecture, and the interplay between religious stories and their artistic portrayals. Topics might include: the role of gender in scenes of Susannah and the Elders, the Santos of New Mexico, the controversy around Michelangelo's "Last Judgement," the monstrous and mythical in the works of Hieronymus Bosch, abstraction in Picasso's crucifixions, and the role of nature as a spiritual element in Tiffany' stained glass windows.