The Exhibit is Here!
The exhibit is open for viewing on Wednesdays 10 am – 4 pm and Saturdays 10 am – 4 pm between May 15th and June 5th, if volunteer docents are available to assist visitors. The volunteer docent position is a fun way to get familiar with the artwork and and meet the visitors to the exhibit. If you would like to be a volunteer docent for this exhibit, please contact Lea Delson at (510) 528-6725 or lea@lmi.net.
On Friday, June 7, there will be an Artist Meet-And-Greet during Oakland First Friday/Art Murmur, at the ICCNC (address above). There will be conversations with local artists, live music, and food. $10 Adults, $5 students.
Download the Interfaith Art Exhibit 2013 Flyer
The Background
MPC is one of three congregations that make up the Faith Trio, an interfaith collaboration with the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC) and Kehilla Synagogue.
These three congregations have collaborated on a variety of activities over the past eleven years, including a very successful interfaith art exhibit held in September and October of 2011. We are now looking forward to the second interfaith art exhibit, this time on the theme “Finding Common Ground through Sacred Words” which is taking place now through June 7.
Hundreds of beautiful and inspiring works of art have been submitted by a wide variety of artists to this exhibit, including calligraphy, needlework, paintings on silk, oil paintings, watercolor, photography, weavings, quilts, stained glass, sculpture, digital art, and paper collage. The theme of this exhibit is artwork that incorporates words, text or letters and that expresses a commitment to interfaith understanding, coexistence, peace and cultural exchange.
One of the main goals of this exhibit was to bring people together from different faiths and cultures, and the exhibit has certainly succeeded in doing that! Artwork has been submitted to the exhibit that incorporates writing in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Runes, Korean, Chinese, and more.
A committee representing the Faith Trio congregations (Kehila, ICCNC, and the Montclair Presbyterian Church) worked hard at designing the exhibit, working out all the logistics, and planning several events in connections with this exhibit. MPC is represented on this committee by Kathy Horn, Steve McKiernan, Gregg Schwinn and Jane Vanderveer.
A poster for the event is available for download at this link. Please download it and pass it along to anyone who might be interested. You can also check out the Interfaith Art Exhibit Facebook page.
Event Co-Sponsors:
- Afikomen Judaica: Contemporary Judaica for Inspired Living
- Albany Arts Gallery
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- Aquarian Minyan
- Berkeley Covenant Church
- California Arts Council
- CARE, The Center for Arts, Religion & Education, an affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union
- Chaplaincy Institute: An Interfaith Seminary and Community
- Chochmat HaLev
- Church Divinity School of the Pacific at the Graduate Theological Union
- Expressions Gallery, Berkeley
- Fremont Cultural Arts Council
- Heaven Hill & Pacific R.R. (Park and Garden Trains)
- The Interfaith Kirtan Chanting Group
- Islamic Art Exhibit
- Islamic Networks Group (ING)
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- Knesset HaLev
- MIIM Designs LLC
- Mythos Gallery, Berkeley
- Oakland Asian Cultural Center
- SAGRADA Sacred Arts
- San Francisco Foundation
- Ziya Multicultural Art Center
