Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Meinrad Craighead


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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:28, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Meinrad Craighead

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Appears to fail WP:GNG and WP:NARTIST. Cannot find secondary reliable sources about this person other than the single one cited in the article  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 20:39, 21 July 2017 (UTC)
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 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Delete other than the fact that Duke University has her papers in their collection, there is little evidence of notability.104.163.153.14 (talk) 06:18, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * An academic search produced a few more results, including a 7-paragraph review of "The Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother by Meinrad Craighead" by Nancy Corson Carter in Woman's Art Journal, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring - Summer, 1987), p. 51 (JSTOR); a 4-paragraph review in CrossCurrents, Vol. 42, No. 1, Perseverance...Preservation...Transformation? KENTUCKY (SPRING 1992), pp. 127-132 (JSTOR); and a magazine article from Arkansas: "Art for God's Sake" by Trevor Holloway, in America. 12/20/1980, Vol. 143 Issue 20, p403-406. 4p. I haven't been able to read the latter, and don't know anything about the journal. Having papers held by Duke is certainly an indication of importance. She's also the subject of an hour-long film although I can't find any evidence of it being screened on TV or in theaters. --Colapeninsula (talk) 14:43, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Crow Mother and the Dog God, a 350 page retrospective of her work was produced by Pomegranate (publisher) in 2004. This is interesting: according the the Wiki page about Pomegranate publisher, they publish works for the National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, the British Library, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Sierra Club, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Pomegranate is also the licensee for artists M. C. Escher, Edward Gorey, Charley Harper, Wolf Kahn, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Gustave Baumann. If this publisher chose to produce a big book about this artist, perhaps that argues for her significance as an artist. A Google search brings up 18 pages for her name. (I only read through the first couple.) Craighead seems to be a significant figure also in the area of women and religion. According to a review of the Crow Mother book, Virginia Beane Rutter (a Jungian analyst and author of Embracing Persephone and Embracing Girls) has an essay in the book in which she "commends the various ways in which Craighead's art has been a source of solace and inspiration to women who are searching for their own creativity and spirituality."  As noted in previous comment, an hourlong documentary, Meinrad Craighead: Praying with Images was produced about her in 2009  Lengthy articles about her were written in The National Catholic Reporter (a US Catholic newspaper with an apparent circulation of 35,000) in 2008  and another in 2011.  Soul Sisters: The Five Sacred Qualities of a Woman's Soul by Pythia Peay (Penguin, 2002) includes a section about her.  She is referred to as an important figure in art related to the emerging scholarship on women and religion in the second half of the 20th Century in: Women's Spirituality: Resources for Christian Development ed. Joanne Wolski Conn (Paulist Press, 1996); Radical Wisdom, Beverly Lanzetta (Augsburg Fortress, 2005); and New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views ed. Mary E. Hunt and Diann L. Neu (Skylight Paths: 2010).Stokesnet (talk) 04:38, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
 * No idea why this entry is marked for deletion. Meinrad Craighead is a highly regarded artists whose work combines feminist spirituality, mythology, and creative images, many including animals, nature images and the like. She is used widely for meditation. She belongs to an important group of feminist writers/artists who are reshaping the Christian tradition by moving well beyond its artistic limits. Mary E. Hunt, Ph.D.WATER Women (talk) 13:36, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  15:27, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep. The 2008 piece in the National Catholic Reporter provides significant independent coverage on its own, and I assume there is other reliable coverage as well.  Seems important, notable. -- do  ncr  am  16:20, 29 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep. Some other coverage: Albuquerque Journal 1991 Albuquerque Journal 1986 Stokesnet (talk) 03:21, 1 August 2017 (UTC)


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