Jamar Turner, DMin, BCC
Founder & Director, Critical Artist Laboratory
 
Jamar Turner, DMin, is a board-certified hospital chaplain, poet, playwright, and the founder of Poetry Caviar, an arts-based spiritual care practice. He currently serves as a staff chaplain at an academic medical center.

Jamar’s work lives at the intersection of spiritual care, creative practice, and Womanist theology. As the creator of Womanist ArtCare and Womanist Care for Black Men (WFBM), he develops clinical-theological models that use poetry, visual art, storytelling, and performance as forms of spiritual caregiving for individuals and communities impacted by incarceration, serious illness, racialized trauma, and moral injury.

Grounded in Womanist theology and clinical practice, his scholarship explores how creative practice itself becomes spiritual care—challenging traditional binaries between caregiver and care-receiver and cultivating reciprocal models of healing. His work centers the interior lives of Black men while remaining in accountable dialogue with the wisdom, leadership, and ethical commitments of Black women and Womanist scholars.

Through the Critical Artist Laboratory, Jamar designs and facilitates institutional programs, residencies, workshops, and public humanities initiatives that support moral repair, resilience, and whole-person wellness in healthcare, academic, and community settings.