Here I Am...
by Margaret Adams Parker

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Margaret (Peggy) Adams Parker has a dual vocation: as an artist and as a teacher in the church.  Her artworks – sculptures and prints - often treat religious and social justice themes.  Her sculpture of MARY is installed at the Cathedral College (at Washington National Cathedral) and at churches across the country. Her sculpture Reconciliation, depicting the parable of the prodigal son, is at Duke Divinity School. Her woodcuts accompany Ellen Davis’ translation, Who Are You, My Daughter? Reading Ruth through Image and Text (Westminster John Knox, 2003). Her suite of 15 woodcuts, WOMEN, is owned by the Library of Congress, and her woodcut, African Exodus, is the frontispiece to the UNHCR publication, Refugee Children.  She is currently completing drawings for life-sized figures picturing the Communion of Saints, to be etched onto glass panels for St. Agnes Catholic Church, Shepherdstown, WV.  

Parker has taught since 1992 on the adjunct faculty at Virginia Theological Seminary; she also writes and lectures widely. She contributed essays to Scrolls of Love – Ruth and the Song of Songs (Fordham University Press) and Heaven (Seabury Press) and wrote a catalogue essay for Visual Exegesis (Religious Art by African American Artists), an exhibition held at Yale Divinity School.