This event was recorded live at Upper House on April 12, 2025.

ABOUT THE MODERATOR:

CAM ANDERSON is an artist and a writer, a maker of things and texts. From the outside my career path seems to tell a different tale. Beginning with a two-year stint teaching art at Notre Dame High School in East Detroit, I found lifelong paid employment in the non-profit sector. After teaching, I invested 30 years in ministry to university students and faculty with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and following that, nearly a decade leading Christians in the Visual Arts. Since 2018, I have served as the Associate Director of Upper House, a center for Christian study located in the heart of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Though not always at the fore, my artist’s life has remained central to my vision and labor in each of these settings.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

MIA CHUNG-YEE is an internationally known concert pianist and the founder and executive director of the Octet Collaborative, a Christian Study Center based at MIT. In 1993, Chung-Yee won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition and, in 1997, received the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the highest recognition for young concert artists in the United States. Chung-Yee earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a master’s degree from Yale University, and a PhD from the Juilliard School. After serving as Professor of Music and Artist in Residence at Gordon College from 1991 to 2011, she has been a Professor of Musical Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music. Learn more about Chung-Yee at https://www.curtis.edu/person/mia-chung/.

BRUCE HERMAN is a painter, writer, and speaker. His art has been shown in more than 150 national and international exhibitions and is in many public and private art collections, including the Vatican Museum of Modern Religious Art in Rome and museums throughout the United States and Canada. For nearly four decades, Herman taught at Gordon College, where he is the founding chair of the Art Department. He completed BFA and MFA degrees at Boston University College of Fine Arts. Learn more about Herman’s art, exhibitions, many art features, and books at https://www.bruceherman.com/.

KRISSY KLUDT is a poet who writes about mystery, the land, divine love, and the passage of time. Creator of Writing the Wild, she guides retreats and workshops on writing, creativity, and nature connection. She is a convener, and as a former public-school teacher she brings a holistic learning approach to each experience she guides. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Humana Obscura; Tremblings; and Stories from the Trail, an anthology coming in 2024 from Wayfarer Books. Her first volume of poetry is forthcoming. She works and plays in the East Bay outside of San Francisco, on the ancestral lands of the Ohlone and Miwok peoples, with her husband and two sons.