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.

Artist Marie Cochran reimagines the novel "Those We Thought We Knew," by David Joy that explores themes of generational trauma, and betrayal through the story of a young Black artist who returns to her ancestral home. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with Bucknell's Critical Black Studies program.

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 from 2-4pm for rehearsals and Sundays 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.

Exhibition: November 5 – December 15Lecture & Opening Reception: November 5, 5:00 PMSmith (visual art) and Katsumata (electric violin) present their collaborative practice weaving image, sound, history, and memory. Smith draws from comic books, manga, surrealism, Ukiyo-e, anime, and pop culture to examine cultural narratives, while Katsumata creates vivid soundscapes blending classical training with experimental composition. Together, their work explores ancestry, cultural identity, and the stories that connect us.