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Exhibitions

In the Library Gallery

Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, 2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley
Exhibits can be viewed during library hours; admission is always free.

Past Exhibitions

In the Doug Adams Gallery

Doug Adams Gallery
The Center for the Arts & Religion (CARe)
2465 LeConte Avenue, Berkeley
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10am - 3pm

CARe’s Doug Adams Gallery presents exhibitions that examine themes of religion and spirituality, broadly defined. Three exhibitions each year and related public programming offer opportunities for learning, reflection, and enjoyment for GTU students, faculty, and staff, and for the wider community.

Interested in showing your work at the Doug Adams Gallery? Submit an exhibition proposal.

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Current Exhibitions

Drawing the Soul Towards Truth: Muslim and Hindu Sacred Geometry

Thursday, September 10th 2020 to Thursday, December 10th 2020

www.drawingthesoul.com

Missed the opening of this online exhibition? Don't worry! Catch the full discussion between guest curator Rachelle Syed and artists from the show.

Guest curated by Rachelle Syed, GTU PhD Student

In partnership with the Center for Islamic Studies and the Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies.

Drawing the Soul toward Truth explores Islamic and Hindu geometric design in their particularities and as a tool of interfaith dialog. The art in this show can facilitate new thoughts, ideas, and relationships, creating opportunities for inquiry and learning for the benefit of students, spiritual communities, and others. This online exhibition features geometric design as an expression of faith and its use in the theology, art, and history of Islam and Hinduism. This includes geometry as a tool of representation of divinity, divine communion, or unlocking the language of creation.
Past Exhibitions

In the Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology

Pacific School of Religion, 1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley

The Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology strives to foster a greater understanding of and appreciation for the ancient biblical world through the preservation, research, interpretation, and presentation of artifacts recovered by its founder, William F. Badè, professor of Old Testament literature and Semitic languages at PSR from 1902 until 1936.

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Current Exhibitions

Tell en-Nasbeh

This exhibit is the "heart and soul" of the Badè Museum. It displays a wealth of finds from the excavations at Tell en-Nasbeh, Palestine, whose objects span from the Early Bronze Age (3100–2200 BC) through the Iron Age (1200–586 BC) and into the Roman and Hellenistic periods. Highlights of the exhibit include "Tools of the Trade" (featuring real archaeological tools used by Badè and his team), an oil lamp typology, a Second Temple period (586 BC–70 AD) limestone ossuary, and a selection of painted Greek pottery.

In addition to the permanent exhibit, other objects in the Badè collection are highlighted in temporary exhibitions. Please check the Badè Museum website for a more detailed description of our current exhibits

In the Blackfriars Gallery

Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology, 2301 Vine Street, Berkeley
Monday through Friday 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

The Blackfriars Gallery, located in the main gathering area of the classroom building at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, is open to the public and has displayed many fascinating exhibits including the largest collection of biblical movie posters, 18th century liturgical vestments, restored stained glass windows from the Neo-Gothic church of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Islamic calligraphy and paintings, contemporary aboriginal art and more.

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Current Exhibitions

Via Pulchritudinis

In celebrating the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Dominican Order, the General Chapter of Trogir (2013) recommended offering events which promote knowledge of the artistic heritage of the Order. Many Provinces throughout the world have prepared art exhibits reflecting this heritage. Santa Sabina recently opened its own exhibition, Auguri! Expressing the Dominican Tradition in Contemporary Art for the Jubilee. In his prefatory comments to this exhibit, Fr. Bruno Cadore, Master of the Dominican Order noted, "The tradition and rule of the Friars preachers calls on them to learn ‘to recognize the Spirit working in the midst of God’s people, and to discern the treasures hidden in the various forms of human culture, by which human nature is more fully manifested and new paths to truth are opened.’ (LCO 99 § II). This Jubilee exhibition stems from such a desire to search, with others and especially in dialogue with artistic creation, these new paths ad veritatem.”

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