Mary Reid Brunstrom explains how two major sculptures by Richard Serra prompted a new direction in her life. This is an Audio Extra to Episode 8: Mary Reid Brunstrom . Original release date: 6/7/2014
From the late 1980s through 2000, Austral Gallery brought St. Louis audiences the best in contemporary Australian art. In this episode, Mary Reid Brunstrom talks with MOCRA director Terrence Dempsey, S.J., about founding Austral Gallery, her collaborations with MOCRA, and her decision to return to school to pursue studies in art history. Be sure to listen to the Audio Extra, " Serra Shows the Way ." Visit the MOCRA Voices website to learn more about Mary Reid Brunstrom and to explore a Listening...
An invitation to China's Guangzhou Triennial leads artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons to the unexpected realization that her Cuban family includes Chinese relatives. This is an Audio Extra to Episode 7: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons . Original release date: 11/15/2013
Multi-disciplinary artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons came to Saint Louis University in March 2013 to deliver The Kristen Peterson Distinguished Lecture in Art and Art History. Her talk, titled “Rituals and Spirituality in the Performative Photographic Work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons,” concerned her exploration of themes of separation, fragmentation, and memory through multiple artistic disciplines. The day before her talk, Campos-Pons sat down with MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, S.J., and...
Revered Ralph Peterson and Dr. Jane Daggett Dillenberger reminisce about commissioning artist Louis Nevelson to design the Chapel of the Good Shepherd at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan. This is an Audio Extra to Episode 6: Ralph Peterson and Jane Daggett Dillenberger . Original release date: 7/8/2013
Rev. Ralph Peterson has had a lifelong passion for incorporating the arts into his ministry. He speaks with MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, SJ, about his role in commissioning the Erol Beker Chapel of the Good Shepherd, designed by artist Louise Nevelson, and located in St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan. They are also joined by art historian Dr. Jane Daggett Dillenberger, who consulted on the chapel project. Be sure to listen to the Audio Extra, " Taking the Narrative Seriously ." Visit ...
Museum directors Pamela Ambrose, Terrence Dempsey, S.J., and Ena Heller, talk about their favorite exhibitions from their respective museums. This is an Audio Extra to Episode 5: Pamela Ambrose and Ena Heller . Original release date: 6/6/2013
MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, S.J., is joined by two fellow museum directors: Pamela Ambrose (Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago) and Ena Heller (Museum of Biblical Art). All three museums focus on art that engages the religious and spiritual dimensions. Ambrose, Heller, and Dempsey discuss a range of topics, including the place of religious art museums in the ecosystems of both art and religion, the challenges of presenting art in a spiritual and religious context, and the wide range o...
Artist Archie Granot and collector Max Thurm discuss the Jewish concept of hiddur mitzvah and its application to The Papercut Haggadah . This is an Audio Extra to Episode 4: Archie Granot . Original release date: 8/9/2012
Israeli artist Archie Granot describes a harrowing experience with his chosen artistic tool: a surgical scalpel. This is an Audio Extra to Episode 4: Archie Granot . Original release date: 8/9/2012
For this episode of MOCRA Voices, MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, S.J., and Assistant Director David Brinker talk with Israeli artist Archie Granot and American collector Max Thurm. Thurm and his wife Sandra commissioned a body of work from Granot titled The Papercut Haggadah , which was displayed at MOCRA in 2012. They discuss a range of topics, including how Granot was drawn to the art of papercutting, how the commission came about, the special considerations engaged in creating an artwork ba...
These are excerpts from a talk called "The Changing Face of AIDS" delivered by curator and art historian Thomas Sokolowski at MOCRA in 1994. The talk was in conjunction with the exhibition Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS . This is an Audio Extra to Episode 3: Thomas Sokolowski . Original release date: 12/1/2011
Curator and art historian Thomas Sokolowski is no stranger to MOCRA audiences, having lectured at the museum in 1994 with a talk called "The Changing Face of AIDS" and again in 2002 with a talk called "The Last Impression: Andy Warhol's Art as Belief." In this interview, MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, SJ, and Sokolowski discuss issues related to art and AIDS. Topics include Sokolowski's experiences in presenting some of the earliest exhibitions of art about AIDS, and his role in the creation o...
Artist Regina DeLuise and gallerist Susan Schreiber join MOCRA Voices to talk about the life and art of Adrian Kellard (1959–1991). DeLuise and Schreiber share stories of Kellard that serve to illuminate his artistic aims and influences, his distinctive visual style and treatment of his woodcut medium, and the ways in which Kellard's upbringing, sexual orientation, and faith found expression in his work. Kellard was the subject of a retrospective exhibit, The Learned Art of Compassion, organized...
Artist James Rosen proposes swimming as a metaphor for the act of painting. He's talking with MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, SJ. This is an Audio Extra to Episode 1: James Rosen . Original release date: 6/4/2011
In this wide-ranging conversation with MOCRA Director Terrence Dempsey, SJ, artist James Rosen discusses his childhood in Detroit, his friendship with art critic Meyer Schapiro, the development of his distinctive oil/wax-oil emulsion painting technique, and his use of "veils" to camouflage his images. Rosen was the subject of a retrospective exhibit, The Artist and the Capable Observer , organized by MOCRA in 2010. Visit the MOCRA Voices website to learn more about Rosen, and to explore a Listen...
