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The Artist and Sacred Space
November 7, 1992
This symposium held in conjunction with the Fall 1992 meeting of celebrates the birth of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. Read more about this conference on the
This conference is made possible by The Mellon Faculty Development Fund of 老司机福利网 and The Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture.
Speakers:
Jane Daggett Dillenberger
Professor of Art History, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
John Renard
Professor of Theological Studies, 老司机福利网, St. Louis, MO
Terrence E. Dempsey, S.J.
Founding Director of MOCRA and Assistant Professor of Art History, 老司机福利网, St. Louis, MO
Doug Adams
Professor of Art History, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
David Miller
Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Maurice B. McNamee, S.J.
Professor Emeritus and Founding Director of Samuel Cupples House, 老司机福利网, St. Louis, MO
Artist panel:
Seyed Alavi | Lita Albuquerque | Craig Antrim | Frederick J. Brown | Eleanor Dickinson | Tobi Kahn | Charlotte Lichtblau | Stephen Luecking | Bernard Maisner | James Rosen | Daniel Ramirez | Thomas Skomski
above:
Installation view of Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art at MOCRA, 1993. Photo by Cheryl Ungar.
Episode 6: Ralph Peterson and Jane Daggett Dillenberger
Episode 10: MOCRA Memories - The Early Years
Exhibition | |
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2018-10-07 to 2018-10-14 |
Walking in Hope: A Weeklong Celebration of the Canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero |
2017-04-20 |
鈥淭he Hand Acts Out a Joyous Dance鈥: Celebrating the Art of Bernard Maisner |
2016-09-25 |
Erika Diettes: 鈥淪tories Told from the Threshold鈥 |
2015-12-06 |
So That You Know Each Other: Intercultural Reflections on Art, Beauty, and Islam |
2014-11-15 |
John Handley: “The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso” |
2018-09-28 to 2018-09-29 |
Fleur-de-Lis Floral Art Walk |
2014-02-23 |
鈥淭he Economy of Gift鈥 in Socially Engaged Art Practices: A Public Deliberation |
2013-10-02 |
Art21: The Spiritual Light screening at CAM |
2013-03-02 |
Rituals and Spirituality in the Performative Photographic Work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons |
2012-11-11 |
Breaking Boundaries: A Conversation about the Art of Patrick Graham |
2012-05-20 |
Stephen P. Durchslag: 鈥淭he Jewish Experience and the Haggadah鈥 |
2012-03-27 |
2012 Loyola Chair Lecture: “The Image of the Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Consciousness” |
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 |
2011-05-01 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淕eorges Rouault and the Art of Sacred Engagement鈥 |
2010-11-15 |
Terrence Demspey, S.J.: “Creating a Religious Environment through Contemporary Art and Architecture” |
2010-03-28 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “The Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Conscience” |
2009-12-01 |
Day With(out) Art |
2009-11-15 |
Michael Byron: “Cosmic Tears: Word and Image” |
2009-03-29 |
Art and the Religious Imagination |
2008-04-15 |
Wu Hung: 鈥淲hat Is Contemporary Chinese Art?鈥 |
2007-10-07 |
Celluloid Bible Classics: The Ten Commandments |
2007-11-04 |
Celluloid Bible Classics: Ben-Hur |
2007-09-16 |
Michael Morris, O.P.: 鈥淢oving Pictures: The Bible and Beyond鈥 |
2007-03-30 |
Peter Frank: 鈥淎n Oskar Fischinger Tribute鈥 |
2006-12-01 |
Day With(out) Art |
2005-12-04 |
Robert Rosenblum: 鈥淒oDo Jin Ming: An Art Historian's View鈥 |
2003-09-07 |
To Make Extraordinary: The Role of Sacred Objects in Life and Worship |
2002-05-04 |
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A University Response |
2002-04-30 |
Fred D. Gray: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Study That Should Never Have Occurred |
2002-01-31 |
Cloudlanders |
2002-01-26 |
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Last Temptation: Andy Warhols Art as Belief鈥 |
2000-11-30 |
Day With(out) Art |
2001-04-06 |
Bare Naked Statues in concert |
1999-04-15 |
Two Lectures: Ellen Dissanayake and Jack Renard |
1999-03-27 |
Bernard Maisner: 鈥淭he Art of the Illuminator鈥 |
1998-03-22 |
Renaissance and Modern |
1997-11-15 |
The Role of the Computer in Contemporary Art |
1997-07-24 |
Jennifer Biddle: Body, Country, Canvas: Meaning and Identity in Central Desert Aboriginal Women鈥檚 Art |
1997-06-07 |
Creativity as Ancestral Mind: Living with the Ancestors |
1997-02-27 |
The Artist and the Theologian Dialogue: The Body of Christ as Veiling and Unveiling the Invisible God |
1996-12-01 |
Day Without Art |
1996-05-19 |
The Artist as Poet: Readings by Edward Boccia |
1995-05-20 |
Ian Friend: 鈥淭he Edge of Belief鈥 |
1995-05-04 |
Peter Selz: 鈥淒egenerate Art鈥 |
1995-02-05 |
Lynn Hague in recital |
1994-11-13 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淭he Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS鈥 |
1994-12-01 |
Day Without Art |
1994-11-05 |
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Changing Face of AIDS鈥 |
1994-11-01 |
The Amici String Quartet in recital |
1994-10-15 |
Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the TIme of AIDS dance program and opening reception |
1993-10-29 |
I Remember Alvin |
1993-11-05 |
An Evening with Katherine Dunham |
1992-11-07 |
The Artist and Sacred Space |