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The second annual Bay Area MFA Show showcased the work of graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the five leading MFA programs in the Bay Area. By bringing these works together, we saw connections between the artists and their treatment of the themes of identity, community, and ritual. This exhibition gave the GTU an opportunity to explore the impact of new art and new ways of thinking about the sacred.

This exhibition represented the culmination of years of rigorous refinement of each artist’s process and style. All five artists dealt with the topics of identity, community, and ritual...

Watch a video of musicians from the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble talking about their residency.

In Spring 2019, CARe hosted the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble residency, involving a packed schedule of performances and other music-related events. In conjuncture with the performative aspect of the residency, the Doug Adams Gallery exhibited Sacred Sounds, which featured items loaned from the Graduate Theological Union, San Francisco Theological Seminary and Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology archives.

By displaying a wide variety of sacred music, from 15^th-century sheet music from the...

The Doug Adams Gallery brought together representatives from the five leading Master of Fine Arts programs in the Bay Area for this, our first annual Bay Area MFA Show. The multi-media works on display dealt with issues ranging from the transformation of the American female identity to the mass-suicide of members of the religious group, "Heaven's Gate." Through the media of ceramics, watercolor, collage, wood, and ice, the artists explore the formation of belief and community, as well as the natural world and spiritual consciousness expressed through color and form.

This exhibition featured...