Opening reception:
"Muse/Reuse: Visual Reflections on Sustainability"
Doug Adams Gallery at the Badè Museum
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
Juried exhibition held in conjunction with Epiphany West 2010, Sacred Elements: Creating Sustainable Earth Communities, hosted by the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. This multi-media group show offers an ecumenical look at religious engagement with issues of environmental sustainability. Themes may include population, consumption, and the natural world and their relationship to the ethics and practice of sustainability. Artists include Ventana Amico, Edward Foley, Steven Holloway, Elizabeth Kenneday, Catherine Richardson, and Mariángeles Soto-Diaz. For more information about the conference, please visit www.cdsp.edu.

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Lecture and Discussion: Art and Authority
Doug Adams Gallery at the Badè Museum
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
The relationship between art and authority is complicated and unsettled. Even today, art continues to serve its perennial function as a socio-economic marker: one displays his status as cultured and affluent by owning art and to a lesser extent, appreciating it. And art continues to align itself with political and religious authority as public art and liturgical/religious art continue to be created and displayed. But in the early decades of the 20th century, artists stopped feeling compelled to pander to the narcissism of the aristocracy and of the Church, and began to paint new subjects -- and painted familiar subjects in ways which were not encouraged by the established authorities. Art's role as a form of self-expression became paramount, and by the later decades of the 20th century, the whole notion of "authority" started to come into question. BUt is this trend ending? This program seeks to stimulate discussion about art's relationship to authority in the church, in the museum, and in the art market.

Introduction by Carin Jacobs, Director of CARE; moderated by Dr. Peter Selz, Professor Emeritus of European and American Art, UC Berkeley.

Authority and the Church, by Prof. Michael Morris, OP, Professor of Religion and the Arts, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
Authority and the Museum, by Rene de Guzman, Senior Curator of Art, Oakland Museum of Art
Authority and the Art Market, by Catharine Clark, Owner/Director of the Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Authority and Authenticity, by Rafael Chodos, President, Foundation for Centripetal Art

Conservation of Sacred Art Objects: GLASS
Pacific School of Religion: PSR 6, under the Chapel; 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley.
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Gallery Reading of Winning Essay of CARE Writing Prize
Jon Sommer, Center for Jewish Studies: "Stewardship and the Prophetic Voice of the Artist"
Doug Adams Gallery at the Badè Museum
The Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education has initiated a writing prize for any student enrolled in a GTU class who in the course of the semester writes a paper addressing content of the current exhibition in the Doug Adams Gallery at the Badè Museum. The paper may also address related themes and artifacts from the Badè biblical archaeology collection. Jon Sommers, the writer of this year's winning essay, will deliver his paper, "Stewardship and the Prophetic Voice of the Artist," as a public lecture in the gallery. This essay will soon be published on the CARE website, under a new collection of “Emerging Voices” student work.
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Conservation of Sacred Art Objects: STONE
Pacific School of Religion: PSR 6, under the Chapel; 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley.
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The Land and the Dreaming: Aboriginal Art and Life of Australia
Two-part lecture series co-sponsored by CARE
First lecture: "The Land, Aboriginal Art, and the Dreaming"
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
2301 Vine Street, Berkeley; Classroom 1.
Aboriginal Art has always attracted a great deal of attention and drawn people into the Outback of Australia. It is the art of the oldest continuous culture on the planet. Aboriginal art is expressed through paintings on rock, bark, and the human body, and through ritual music. This art is both secular and religious, but all of it stems from attachment to the Land and the Dreaming--which both made and gave the Land to the Aboriginal people--time out of mind.

Fr. Hilary Martin, OP, has spent twenty years with an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia and has studied that art which, like the Dreaming, is timeless and unchanging, but grows and develops, too.

Fr. Hilary will give a short lecture on the meaning of the Dreaming, and invite discussion of two works of contemporary Aboriginal art in his possession. But no presentation is complete without a film and so Fr. Hilary will also show the film, Singing the Milky Way.

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Conservation of Sacred Art Objects: PAINT
Pacific School of Religion: PSR 6, under the Chapel; 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley.
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Opening reception:
Mining the Collection: An Archaeology of the Senses by Pamela Blotner
Doug Adams Gallery at the Badè Museum
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
Each year, a single artist is invited to create a body of work inspired by the Badè archaeology collection. The guest artist will gain access to the entire Badè collection, spend time with staff archaeologists and curators, and conduct research that will drive their final exhibition. This series helps to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and brings to life significant artifacts from biblical times, placing them in a new contemporary context.

How do we comprehend a lost civilization? And how do we use art to recreate the sights, sounds, smells, and tactile impressions encapsulated in its surviving artifacts? While scientific reasoning helps us reconstruct the purpose of artifacts, it is the artistic imagination—aided by the most basic building blocks of human understanding: the senses—that divines their true meaning.

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Conservation of Sacred Art Objects: PAINT
Pacific School of Religion: PSR 6, under the Chapel; 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley.
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The Land and the Dreaming: Aboriginal Art and Life of Australia
Two-part lecture series co-sponsored by CARE
Second lecture: "Aboriginal Life in a Global World"
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
2301 Vine Street, Berkeley; Classroom 1.
Even a most ancient art, music, and lifestyle can change. Can Aboriginal culture keep its life and develop, or will it dissipate and dissolve into water? Can any culture retain its integrity without folding into the mainstream?

Fr. Hilary Martin, OP will offer the two films, Experience Eutopia and Samson and Delilah, to help explore these questions.

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Panel Discussion: “Mining the Collection: An Archaeology of the Senses”
Doug Adams Gallery at the Badè Museum
Moderated by Carin Jacobs, Director of the Center for the Arts, Religion and Education, and the Doug Adams Gallery.

Featured artist Pamela Blotner will talk about her process in the Mining the Collection series, and how we use art to recreate the sights, sounds, smells, and tactile impressions encapsulated in a lost civilization and its material artifacts.

Catherine Foster, associate curator of the BadË Museum of Biblical Archaeology, will probe the interdisciplinary links between art and archaeology, as well as the links between ancient and modern culture reflected in this unique museum space.

Kristen Olson, Academic and Educational Technology Liaison at Stanford's Cantor Arts Center, will explore the links between sensory experience and the visual arts, and how museum educators can design interpretive tools and strategies to underscore these connections.

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