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2018-10-07 to 2018-10-14	Walking in Hope: A Weeklong Celebration of the Canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero October 7, 2018 to October 14, 2018 MOCRA joined with 麻豆视频下载's Campus Ministry, the Archdiocese of Saint Louis, and numerous other local organizations, in a weeklong St. Louis celebration of the canonization of Archbi...
2017-04-20	鈥淭he Hand Acts Out a Joyous Dance鈥�: Celebrating the Art of Bernard Maisner April 20, 2017 A master calligrapher and manuscript illuminator, artist Bernard Maisner brings together materials and design in unexpected ways. From tiny illuminated manuscripts to large-scale paintings reminisc...
2016-09-25	Erika Diettes: 鈥淪tories Told from the Threshold鈥� September 25, 2016 Colombian artist Erika Diettes has received international acclaim for a body of work that draws upon her training as both an artist and an anthropologist. In 2011 she set up a studio in the Colombi...
2015-12-06	So That You Know Each Other: Intercultural Reflections on Art, Beauty, and Islam December 6, 2015 This program explores historic and contemporary approaches to Islamic art, from perspectives both within and outside of Islam. The guiding concept of the program is interculturality. When...
2014-11-15	John Handley: “The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso” November 15, 2014 Art historian and theologian John Handley will shed light on a scarcely known aspect of the career of the renowned twentieth-century artist Pablo Picasso: his religious beliefs and his incorporatio...
2018-09-28 to 2018-09-29	Fleur-de-Lis Floral Art Walk September 28, 2018 to September 29, 2018 Celebrate 麻豆视频下载's Bicentennial with a Floral Art Walk taking place throughout campus and the nearby Grand Center Arts District, and see art in a new way through the magic of flowers. Each stop along ...
2014-02-23	鈥淭he Economy of Gift鈥� in Socially Engaged Art Practices: A Public Deliberation February 23, 2014 Gift involves moving out of oneself. The economy of gift questions the dominant measure of value in the art world and beyond. Socially engag...
2013-10-02	Art21: The Spiritual Light screening at CAM October 2, 2013 MOCRA's neighbor institution, , offers an opportunity to view a special ...
2013-03-02	Rituals and Spirituality in the Performative Photographic Work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons March 2, 2013 Hailed as a leading artist of the Afro-Cuban diaspora, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons' work encompasses installation art, performative photography, painting and cultural activism, all of which, says a...
2012-11-11	Breaking Boundaries: A Conversation about the Art of Patrick Graham November 11, 2012 Patrick Graham has been credited with changing the face of contemporary painting i...
2012-05-20	Stephen P. Durchslag: 鈥淭he Jewish Experience and the Haggadah鈥� May 20, 2012 The Jewish holiday of Passover recalls and celebrates the freeing of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. The haggadah is the book that contains the ritual guide to the Passover Seder meal, along ...
2012-03-27	2012 Loyola Chair Lecture: “The Image of the Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Consciousness” March 27, 2012 MOCRA's Director, Terrence Dempsey, S.J., delivers the Loyola Chair Lecture at Fordham University. 鈥淭he Image of the Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Consciousness鈥� will o...
2011-10-06	2011 Loyola Chair Lecture: 鈥淭he Pursuit of the Spirit: The Renewed Interest in the Spiritual and Religious Dimensions in Contemporary Art鈥� October 6, 2011 MOCRA's Director, Terrence Dempsey, S.J., delivers the Loyola Chair Lecture at Fordham University. 鈥淭he Pursuit of the Spirit: The Renewed Interest in the Spiritual and Religious Dimens...
2011-05-01	Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淕eorges Rouault and the Art of Sacred Engagement鈥� May 1, 2011 From his earliest works, Georges Rouault selected subjects that combined a stron...
2010-11-15	Terrence Demspey, S.J.: “Creating a Religious Environment through Contemporary Art and Architecture” November 15, 2010 Rev. Terrence Dempsey, S.J., founding Director of MOCRA, presents the lecture "Creating a Religious Environment Through Contemporary Art and Architecture." Celebrating his 25th year as a Jesuit pri...
2010-03-28	Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “The Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Conscience” March 28, 2010 MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, S.J., offers an overview of how images associated with the suffering and death of Jesus still have vitality, even in a pluralistic world. Images referring to the ev...
2009-12-01	Day With(out) Art December 1, 2009 MOCRA observes the twentieth anniversary of , a national day of actio...
2009-11-15	Michael Byron: “Cosmic Tears: Word and Image” November 15, 2009 Artist Michael Byron will discuss the development of his Cosmic ...
2009-03-29	Art and the Religious Imagination March 29, 2009 MOCRA assembles a panel of distinguished museum directors and theologians to discuss the roles that secular and religious art museums can play in the presentation of art with spiritual and religiou...
2008-04-15	Wu Hung: 鈥淲hat Is Contemporary Chinese Art?鈥� April 15, 2008 The curator of the MOCRA exhibition Miao Xiaochun: The Last...
2007-10-07	Celluloid Bible Classics: The Ten Commandments October 7, 2007 In conjunction with the exhibition The Celluloid Bible: Marketing Films Inspired by Sc...
2007-11-04	Celluloid Bible Classics: Ben-Hur November 4, 2007 In conjunction with the exhibition The Celluloid Bible: Marketing Films Inspired by Scrip...
2007-09-16	Michael Morris, O.P.: 鈥淢oving Pictures: The Bible and Beyond鈥� September 16, 2007 Professor and Dominican priest Rev. Michael Morris, O.P., gives a wry and highly informed survey of Hollywood's relationship with Judeo-Christian scripture (in fact, the motion picture's interest ...
2007-03-30	Peter Frank: 鈥淎n Oskar Fischinger Tribute鈥� March 30, 2007 Peter Frank, curator of the MOCRA exhibition Oskar Fischinger: Movem...
2006-12-01	Day With(out) Art December 1, 2006 MOCRA observes , a national day of action and mourning in response to...
2005-12-04	Robert Rosenblum: 鈥淒oDo Jin Ming: An Art Historian's View鈥� December 4, 2005 Renowned art historian Robert Rosenblum places the work of photographer DoDo Jin Ming
2003-09-07	To Make Extraordinary: The Role of Sacred Objects in Life and Worship September 7, 2003 MOCRA presents an interfaith panel discussion that considers the wide range in form, use, and significance of sacred objects across the world's religious traditions. This event is held on t...
2002-05-04	The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A University Response May 4, 2002 With this panel discussion about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, approached from diverse disciplines and personal backgrounds, we seek to encourage the St. Louis community to assess the ramificat...
2002-04-30	Fred D. Gray: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Study That Should Never Have Occurred April 30, 2002 Fred D. Gray is a civil rights attorney whose career spans...
2002-01-31	Cloudlanders January 31, 2002 MOCRA presents several of St. Louis' finest dancers performing two evenings of improvisatory dance with and amidst Pop artist Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds. The dancers respond to the mutable,...
2002-01-26	Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Last Temptation: Andy Warhols Art as Belief鈥� January 26, 2002 Thomas Sokolowski examines Pop artist Andy Warhol鈥檚 outlook on art and aesthetics as t...
2000-11-30	Day With(out) Art November 30, 2000 MOCRA observes , a national day of action and mourning in response to...
2001-04-06	Bare Naked Statues in concert April 6, 2001 The , 麻豆视频下载鈥檚 premier all-male a capella ensemble, present their debu...
1999-04-15	Two Lectures: Ellen Dissanayake and Jack Renard April 15, 1999 MOCRA presents lectures by two distinguished scholars. Ellen Dissanayake 鈥淚n the Beginning, Art鈥� An innovative scholar makes a case for an innate hu...
1999-03-27	Bernard Maisner: 鈥淭he Art of the Illuminator鈥� March 27, 1999 Bernard Maisner, considered one of today's foremost practitione...
1998-03-22	Renaissance and Modern March 22, 1998 MOCRA presents a lecture and a public conversation. Dr. Carolyn Valone 鈥淢atrons and Motives: Why Women Built in 16th-century Rome鈥� Carolyn Valone is Pr...
1997-11-15	The Role of the Computer in Contemporary Art November 15, 1997 Join artist Manfred Stumpf and members of the St. Louis arts community in an exploration of the role of the computer in contemporary art, examined from the perspectives of the artist, the art histo...
1997-07-24	Jennifer Biddle: Body, Country, Canvas: Meaning and Identity in Central Desert Aboriginal Women鈥檚 Art July 24, 1997 , of the department of Anthropology, Macquar...
1997-06-07	Creativity as Ancestral Mind: Living with the Ancestors June 7, 1997 MOCRA presents an afternoon symposium focusing on the art of the Aborigines of Australia's Central Desert. In the unique setting of the world's first museum of contemporary interfaith art, surround...
1997-02-27	The Artist and the Theologian Dialogue: The Body of Christ as Veiling and Unveiling the Invisible God February 27, 1997 In conjunction with the exhibition Steven Heilmer: Pietre Sante...
1996-12-01	Day Without Art December 1, 1996 MOCRA observes , a national day of action and mourning in response to...
1996-05-19	The Artist as Poet: Readings by Edward Boccia May 19, 1996 In conjunction with the joint exhibition Edward Boccia: Eye of the Paint...
1995-05-20	Ian Friend: 鈥淭he Edge of Belief鈥� May 20, 1995 Artist Ian Friend delivers a lecture focusing on his series of paintings ...
1995-05-04	Peter Selz: 鈥淒egenerate Art鈥� May 4, 1995 In this lecture, renowned art historian, author and curator Peter Selz examines the 1937 Nazi-organized Entartete Kunst (鈥淒egenerate Art鈥�) exhibition, the most virulent campaign ever org...
1995-02-05	Lynn Hague in recital February 5, 1995 MOCRA welcomes Lynn Hague of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra in a solo violin recital. The program includes works by Bach and Paganini, as well as original improvisations that take advantage of ...
1994-11-13	Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淭he Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS鈥� November 13, 1994 MOCRA鈥檚 exhibition Consecrations: The Spiritual ...
1994-12-01	Day Without Art December 1, 1994 MOCRA observes , a national day of action and mourning in response to...
1994-11-05	Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Changing Face of AIDS鈥� November 5, 1994 Thomas Sokolowski is the Director of the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center of New York University. He is also a co-founder of Day Without Art, an annual observance by galleries and...
1994-11-01	The Amici String Quartet in recital November 1, 1994 The Amici Quartet performs an evening recital in the elegant setting of Historic Samuel Cupples House. This pe...
1994-10-15	Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the TIme of AIDS dance program and opening reception October 15, 1994 MOCRA marks the opening of the first national group e...
1993-10-29	I Remember Alvin October 29, 1993 Three people closely connected with Alvin Ailey reminisce about their experiences with t...
1993-11-05	An Evening with Katherine Dunham November 5, 1993 Living legend discusses the famous 鈥淒unham Technique鈥� and provides valuable in...
1992-11-07	The Artist and Sacred Space November 7, 1992 This symposium held in conjunction with the Fall 1992 meeting of Visit Campus Apply 麻豆视频下载 Higher purpose. Greater good. Quick Links Campus Map Work at 麻豆视频下载 A-Z Directory Emergency Info Disclaimer Resources For You Parents and Families Alumni Donors Current Students Faculty and Staff 麻豆视频下载-Madrid Request Information St. Louis, Missouri, and Madrid, Spain Copyright 漏 1818-2024 麻豆视频下载