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2011 CARe Grant recipient Laurie Wohl interwove Muslim, Jewish and Christian poetry and spiritual texts from the period of the Convivencia in Spain (eighth through fifteenth centuries) with contemporary Middle Eastern poets, particularly Palestinian and Israeli. Her exhibition presented common themes and striking parallels between Arabic and Hebrew texts—similarly rich in poetry of spiritual love, extensive poetry of exile, and poetry of nostalgia for Andalusia.

An audio component was integral to the project, consisting of English, Arabic, and Hebrew readings of poems and spiritual texts...

Inspired by the Badè Museum's collection of ancient biblical artifacts, visual artist Marianne Lettieri created a new body of work that incoporates objects of domestic and manual labor that reference culturally valued practices and individual identity. Her incorporation of disappearing relics of the past into pieces of art as a means of illuminating and informing current social, historical, political and cultural contexts intersected with the artifacts of the ancient Near East on display at the Badè Museum.

Marianne Lettieri works with cultural artifacts and common objects. Her mixed media...

In the ninth century, the Patriarch of Constantinople, Nikephoros, wrote that icons make that which is absent present. This exhibition of sixteen icons, primarily 18th- and 19th-century works from the collection of the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute, explored the paradoxical nature of icons as embodiments of both material beauty and divine presence. 

Present Absence was curated by three Graduate Theological Union doctoral students – Yohana Junker, Amy Taylor, and Colette Walker -- as part of a seminar led by Dr. Rossitza Schroeder. The exhibition was made possible thanks to the...

Tait's work is influenced by vernacular 19th-century memorials and the influence of industrialized printmaking on images of memory and domesticity. Prints, paintings, glass etchings, and embroidery pieces combine cemetery grave imagery with monograms. They are an extension of her work in stone carving.

CARe caught up with Anne back in 2018 -- be sure to read her reflections and updates on the CARe Package Blog!

The Hermitage of Landscape, the opening exhibit at the NEW Doug Adams Gallery, featured the luminous landscape paintings of Bay Area artist Nicholas Coley. Painting en plein aire, Coley experiments with light and shape, producing images that range from realism to abstraction. Familiar Bay Area sites – Mt. Tam, Baker Beach, Tennessee Valley, the Berkeley Hills – take on other-wordly qualities.

CARe caught up with Nick in 2018 -- be sure to read his reflection and updates on the CARe Package Blog!

Eva Bovenzi lives and works in San Francisco and Colorado. She first exhibited in 1981. Her work is routinely exhibited in museums and galleries.

From DeWitt Cheng's review of the exhibit in San Francisco Art Magazine, May 2007:

"Yet these rich, lyrical works, for all their elegance, aim at something more difficult; they aim, I believe, in effecting a kind of psychic or emotional healing in viewers, realigning them with the world of nature (so unfashionable lately in the world of art theory); they aspire to transcendent metaphor and even spiritual elevation.

From Peter Selz, Messenger Exhibit...

Ido Agassi designed the casing for this special edition of Nilly Digan's volume of poetry, In Everyone There Are Four Sons. Separated with a metal cutout by David Gerstein, one side holds a Hebrew edition, the other, an English one.

Ido Agassi and Even Hoshen Press of Ra’anana, Israel, are exhibiting their handcrafted fine art books in the display cases at the GTU Library December 7, 2009 through February 28, 2010. 

Ido Agassi is a master bookbinder,  printer, and publisher who, in an age of mass production, has returned bookmaking to a genuine craft and fine art form.  His handcrafted,...

Al Pounders: Umbria, The Pulse of Place is on display in the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library from March 17 through Summer 2010.

The artist is professor emeritus of Purdue University and has been a working artist for over 50 years. Since 1986, he and his wife Loren Olson, also an artist, have spent their summers at their home in Umbria.  During this time Pounders has focused on the Italian landscape as his primary "motif for metaphor" in his painting. 

Nicholas Ukrainiec, the curator, writes, "In these works, a window is opened to our mind and senses that enables us see and smell and feel the...