The Rev. Dr. Melody Bellefeuille-Frost is a theologian, artist, and minister from Canada.

 

Melody received a PhD in Divinity through the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) at the University of St Andrews. Her research examined images of Christ from 16th- and 17th-century European Jesuit and Japanese Christian religious visual cultures. As a result, she developed the concept of visual missiology and drew out the theological aspects of Japanese Christian artworks in their historical, intercultural context. She received an MA in Intercultural Studies (emphasis in Worship, Theology, and the Arts) from Fuller Theological Seminary and a BA in Applied Linguistics from Moody Bible Institute.​

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Through her artistic practice, Melody makes mixed-media collages that often explore themes of journey and home. The layered materials are gathered from and transported between various locations. The collages may reference mapped or imagined places while also suggesting portability, juxtaposition, and (re)contextualization. For Melody, such artmaking is a method of navigating transience and rootedness, with collages becoming milestones or havens along the way. These spaces invite viewers to contemplate their own journeys and the possibility of sacred encounter.

 

Melody is an ordained minister with the Wesleyan Church.​