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. [Read more…]