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Creativity as Ancestral Mind: Living with the Ancestors
June 7, 1997
MOCRA presents an afternoon symposium focusing on the art of the Aborigines of Australia's Central Desert. In the unique setting of the world's first museum of contemporary interfaith art, surrounded by dazzling aboriginal art which presents a 40,000-year-old visual tradition to modern eyes, we will explore the renaissance of traditional Aboriginal culture, its encounter and mastery of Western media, and the deep meaning of the intricate patterns traced in its art.
This program takes place in conjunction with the exhibition Utopia Body Paint Collection and Australian Aboriginal Art from St. Louis Collections.
This talk is made possible through the generous financial support of the Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.
Participants:
Mary Reid Brunstrom: “The Development of Contemporary Art at Utopia”
Director, Austral Gallery - Australian Contemporary Art, St. Louis
Jacqueline Lewis-Harris: "More than Dot Paintings: Sacred Geology"
Assistant Curator for Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Saint Louis Art Museum
Dr. John Nunley: "Ancestors, Art and Regeneration"
Morton D. May Curator of the Arts for Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Saint Louis Art Museum
Dr. Mary Wells Baron: Response
Jungian psychoanalyst, St. Louis
Dr. Diane Martin: Response
clinical psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst; Abbot, Udumbara Zen Center, Evanston, IL
above:
Installation view of Utopia Body Paint Collection and Australian Aboriginal Art from St. Louis Collections at MOCRA, 1997. Photo by Jeffrey Vaughn.
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