Ethiopian Sister Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru (1923-2023) developed into one of the world’s most distinctive pianists and composers.

One of the crafts by which the monastics supported themselves was ceramics. In the showroom of the pottery at the time will be a mini-exhibition featuring ceramics by Venezuelan-Aruban artist Samuel Sarmiento.

Artist and atheist Bronwen Jones used needle and thread and natural dyes to conjure new pieces from the bit of textile waste – cut-up clothes, sheets and tablecloths – of the radically recycling sisters.

Ceija Stojka was a particularly resilient woman. As a Roma girl, she survived three concentration camps. Around age 50, she began painting her traumas from scratch.

On a wide, tens of meters long roll of paper, Vincent de Boer calligraphs the names, birth and death dates of all the sisters of this community during the h3h biennial A Deeper Shade of Soul.