Engaging Art for Justice
Rebecca Berru Davis
Monday, 26 Oct 2015 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Artist Rebecca Berru Davis is a graduate of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where she studied the intersection of art and religion. Her work explores the spiritual and religious expressions of those located on the margins of society or overlooked in the historical record. Since 2006, she has been engaged in an art exhibition project with Peruvian women artists who live in the shantytowns outside of Lima. The exhibition called Picturing Paradise draws attention to the beauty they create despite the challenging circumstances of their lives. Berru-Davis is currently the Louisville Institute Vocation of the Theological Educator Postdoctoral Fellow at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Msgr. James A. Supple Lecture SeriesThe Picturing Paradise exhibition is a series of thirty-nine embroidered and appliqued fabric artworks of varying sizes and themes created by two women's cooperatives in Peru, celebrating women, faith and creativity as a force for transformation.
Cosponsored By:
- St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church & Student Center
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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