Exhibition and national symposium on religious images of women in art. Exhibit, academic symposium, keynote speaker, additional related events.
This cross-cultural, cross-temporal exhibition encompasses the various roles women have played in religion as reflected in visual culture from antiquity to the present. Artworks represent the ancient Mediterranean (Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Early Christian/Byzantine), western Europe from medieval to present, the Americas, and the non-western world of Africa and Asia. A wide range of media will also be represented, including bronze, stone, wood, and terracotta sculpture, painting, and textiles.
Exhibit runs Aug. 29, 2009 to Dec. 24, 2009
Museum of Art and Archaeology
Pickard Hall, University of Missouri
Exhibition opening:
Aug. 28, 2009
Museum Associates Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Exhibition Preview: 6:30 p.m.
Cast Gallery, Museum of Art and Archaeology
Pickard Hall, University of Missouri
National Symposium:
Oct. 17, 2009
Reception: Oct. 16, 2009
Keynote speaker:
Dr. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, professor of religious art and cultural history in Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. She also is an adjunct professor and core faculty of visual culture in the Graduate Liberal Studies Program at Georgetown University and an adjunct professor of religious art and cultural history in the Catholic Studies Program at Georgetown University. Apostolos-Cappadona has authored and edited numerous articles and texts exploring religious images of women in art.
Topic: TBA
National symposium speakers:
Robert Baum, associate professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Missouri
African female prophets
Kristin Schwain, associate professor of American Art and Architecture, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Missouri
Modern Madonnas
Kathy Gaca, associate professor of Classics, Vanderbilt University
Antipathy toward pagan goddesses by the early church; supplantation with the cult of the Virgin
Karen Winstead, associate professor, Department of English, Ohio State University
The cult of virgin martyrs (with focus on Katherine of Alexandria)
Alison Futrell, associate professor of Roman History, Department of History, University of Arizona
Cleopatra’s divinity
Loriliai Biernacki, associate professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
The female role in Tantric sex ritual
Cathleen Fleck, lecturer in the Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Studies Program, Washington University in St. Louis
Jerusalem through the eyes of a 13th-century female pilgrim
Read Schuchardt, assistant professor of Media Ecology and Web Communication, Department of Communication, Wheaton College
The femme fatale in film
Times and lecture titles – TBA
Hosted by the MU Museum of Art and Archaeology with co-sponsorship from the Center on Religion & the Professions and other campus organizations. For additional information, see http://maa.missouri.edu/
