On February 2 at 7:00 PM, Max Brumberg-Kraus (’20) and Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman, the author and illustrator of Visions of Love’s Divine, will converse about the project that led to the publication. Rev. Dr. Justin Sabia-Tanis will moderate.
Artist and activist Ricardo Pérez Gonzalez is United’s inaugural artist-organizer-in-residence, and has served both our Leadership Center for Social Justice and the Theology and Arts program since last fall. He has also been facilitating our monthly arts and social transformation lunches. Now we want to celebrate Ricardo with an exhibit of and talk about his work. Born and raised in Mexico, Ricardo is a self-taught mixed media artist with more ...
In anticipation of the November event for the Mementos of Failure exhibit at United, curator and current DMin student Tyrone Fowlkes and Dr. Jennifer Awes Freeman will discuss the concept behind the exhibit, the process of curation, and invite attendees to reflect on the complexity and benefits of “failure.” We will gather at 12:15 PM CT with a program beginning at 12:30 PM CT!
As part of our exhibition Mementos of Failure, we welcome Tyrone Fowlkes, curator and current DMin student in Theology and the Arts, who will reflect on the concept behind the exhibition, as well as the place and meanings of failure in our lives. After a brief presentation, he will be joined by a few panelists to extend the conversation, which will be followed by Q&A and further reflection with the audience. ...
Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi (b. 1979) is an Iranian artist from Tehran who studied as a painter at the Art University in Tehran and then continued his education at Brera Fine Arts Academy in Italy, graduating in Visual Arts. In his works, he combines the focus, uniformity, and tradition of the (Middle-)East with the Western ideals of creative expression. In many of his pieces, Saleh Mohammadi juxtaposes iconography from Persia to explore ...
