Panel Discussion:
"Echoes and Fragments"
Doug Adams Gallery at the Badè Museum
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
In honor of the week of Tisha B'Av, the Doug Adams Gallery presents a panel discussion on art and healing July 22, 2010. Speakers include Rene'e Powell; Naomi Seidman, Director, Center for Jewish Studies, GTU; and Rabbi Elliot Kukla, Bay Area Jewish Healing Center. Tisha B'Av is a fast day that commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples. It has also became a day of general mourning for other major disasters that have befallen the Jewish people, from the Edict of Expulsion from England in 1290 to the mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Opening Reception: Picturing the Word: The Visuality of Text
Doug Adams Gallery at the Badè Museum
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
This exhibition brings together five artists who investigate the relationship between text and image in various faith traditions. These artists reference diverse letter forms and types of script, reflecting the ways in which letters and symbols can signify a particular culture, and, in some instances, facilitate the blending of otherwise disparate cultures. These works underscore the figurative role of text and can be read as both humanistic and aesthetic narratives. Framed by dynamic color palettes, abstraction, and, in one case, the covers of a book, these cultural messages are encoded and decoded, allowing the viewer to decipher or make meaning through their own spiritual lens.

FEATURED ARTISTS:

• Salma Arastu
• Jamie Brunson
• Igael Gurin-Malous
• Wosene Worke Kosrof
• Sharon Siskin

Idea Lounge @ Noon
Picturing the Word: The Visuality of Text
Christina Hutchins- Pacific School of Religion (PSR)
Gabriella Lettini- Starr King School for the Ministry (SKSM)
Christopher Renz- Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT)

Join us for a new series of interfaith faculty debates and reflections centered on exhibition content. Each quarter, CARE will invite three faculty members from different GTU schools to come together in the Doug Adams Gallery and reflect on the current exhibition from their particular disciplinary and theological perspectives. These are not formal talks, but more unscripted dialogues or forums. Each professor will have 15 minutes, and we recommend that they visit the show in advance of the program to formulate their initial thoughts. The final 15 minutes will be open to dialogue between speakers and also invite contributions from the audience. GTU faculty, students and staff are invited to bring their own lunches and attend these one-hour noontime chats.

Panel discussion
Picturing the Word: The Visuality of Text

Annual Dillenberger Lecture:
Peter Selz, Figuration: New Images of Man Revisited
Reception preceding lecture
Dinner Boardroom, GTU Library