Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree encapsulates 6 years in communion with a single tree. Bridging art, ecology, and queer experience, the project approaches wood as a living being and explores interconnection, habitat, and environmental responsibility. Organized by the Museum for Art in Wood and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken.

Rooke Chapel provides Childcare during our Gospel Residency from 11am-12pm

The 2025-26 Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellowship offers current master's or doctoral students (and recent graduates) the opportunity to cultivate the Gospel music tradition within a vibrant, multicultural University worship setting. The fellow leads, in collaboration with the Protestant chaplain and director of music, weekend residencies open to students, staff, faculty and the local community through the course of the academic year, which are designed to teach, explore and celebrate Gospel music. Rooke Chapel is pleased to welcome back Rev. Angela Jones as our 2025-2026 Gospel Music Fellow! The Rev. Angela Jones is a Howard University School of Divinity graduate and gospel recording artist who has performed with genre Billboard-charting artists such as Richard Smallwood, Yolanda Adams, Bebe Winans, Marvin Sapp, Brandon Camphor & OneWay, to name a few. Her singing group, Brandon Camphor & One Way, has been nominated for Stellar Awards, has been included on Billboard's top-30 chart four times, and has received three Wammie Awards. Jones currently serves as minister of worship arts at Word For Life Church Ministries in Maryland. In 2024-25 Rev. Jones served as the Rooke Chapel Gospel Music Fellow and we look forward to welcoming her back to Bucknell. Join us Saturdays 2pm-4pm for rehearsals and Sunday 11am-12pm. Learn more about Rev. Angela here: https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship (https://www.bucknell.edu/life-bucknell/diversity-equity-inclusion/religious-spiritual-life/rooke-chapel/rooke-chapel-gospel-music-fellowship) Contact chapel@bucknell.edu with any questions. Co-sponsored by the Office of Religious & Spiritual Life, the Rooke Chapel Congregation, The Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives & Cultures, the Bucknell University Choir, and Voice Lab. Rooke Chapel values inclusion and is committed to ensuring accessibility. To request an accommodation or for questions about accessibility, please contact chapel@bucknell.edu or dial 711 for TDD/TTY.

Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree encapsulates 6 years in communion with a single tree. Bridging art, ecology, and queer experience, the project approaches wood as a living being and explores interconnection, habitat, and environmental responsibility. Organized by the Museum for Art in Wood and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken.

Rooke Chapel provides Childcare during our Gospel Residency from 11am-12pm

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress

Sarah Ghazal Ali, a former Stadler Fellow at Bucknell, is the author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024), winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and California B (https://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/special-events/california-book-awards)ook Award and a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.​​ She teaches at Macalaster College.Tiffany Mi, the Fall 2025 Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell, is a Chinese-American poet interested in collective memory and the archive. Her work appears in Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. She recently completed an MFA in Literary Arts at Brown University. 

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress

Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree encapsulates 6 years in communion with a single tree. Bridging art, ecology, and queer experience, the project approaches wood as a living being and explores interconnection, habitat, and environmental responsibility. Organized by the Museum for Art in Wood and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken.

Birckhead's approach to woodwind artistry is driven by his compulsion for creative risk and deep respect for legacy. His place in a storied lineage begins with his surname, Birckhead, and extends to his extensive musical education and work ethic. Educated at Howard University, Birckhead was named best blues/pop/rock soloist and outstanding instrumental jazz soloist by Downbeat magazine as part of the annual Student Music Awards. In 2011 he was named Best Alto Saxophonist by the Washington City Paper. The New York Times calls Birckhead "one of the most riveting young improvisers in New York."

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress

Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree encapsulates 6 years in communion with a single tree. Bridging art, ecology, and queer experience, the project approaches wood as a living being and explores interconnection, habitat, and environmental responsibility. Organized by the Museum for Art in Wood and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken.

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress

Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree encapsulates 6 years in communion with a single tree. Bridging art, ecology, and queer experience, the project approaches wood as a living being and explores interconnection, habitat, and environmental responsibility. Organized by the Museum for Art in Wood and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken.

Gina Siepel: To Understand a Tree encapsulates 6 years in communion with a single tree. Bridging art, ecology, and queer experience, the project approaches wood as a living being and explores interconnection, habitat, and environmental responsibility. Organized by the Museum for Art in Wood and curated by Jennifer-Navva Milliken.

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress

Exhibition: Stafford Smith & Ritsu Katsumata: Ancestry in Progress