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When I was a kid growing up in Iowa, my mother wrote for the Des Moines Register and Tribune and my two older brothers, who were at or near draft age delivered it. I remember well coming downstairs first thing in the morning to see several copies of the paper laying on the kitchen table with a photograph of some grisly scene from the Vietnam war on the front page, repeated again and again and again. These images, repeated multiple times, lead me to become a printmaker.(more)
Fresh from the
Studio
and in the Board Room:
Students working with David Kamm, one of Wesleys artists-in-residence this semester, created work in response to a project initiated by the Holter Museum of Art in Helena, Montana and the Montana Human Rights Agency. Those organizations asked artists to respond to hate literature published by the Church of the Creator, a white-supremacist group that has migrated to Montana. Copies of their literature were provided to the artists for use with the
Abner Hershberger: A reception and artist's talk will be held at noon on Thursday, January 25, 2007 Abner Herschberger was one of the
seminary's earliest Artists-in-Residence, during the1981-82 academic year.
Welcoming him back 25 years after his residency, this exhibition presents his
recent abstract paintings, which he refers to as "field notes."
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A community dialogue with the artist will be held at noon on Wednesday, March 8, 2007, in the Board Room. All are invited. My
relationship with the HIV/AIDS community began in the summer of 2003. As I
listened to people express the ways that living with AIDS changed their lives,
my life began to change. What I heard was a collective voice of wisdom and
humor, healing and hope, and a perspective on living and dying that challenged
my beliefs and pointed to a path deep in grace. I began to keep a notebook and
pen close at hand, so I could jot down the things that people said, along with
the first name of the person who said it. As my collection of sayings grew, I
became aware that my little notebook contained a treasure, and I wanted others
to hear the message and be touched by the spirit of my beloved HIV/AIDS
community. So I began to create collages based on the quotes, each piece serving
as a visual interpretation of a phrase that had been spoken.(more)
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Speaking
Volumes: Transforming Hate
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