Museum of Contemporary Religious Art
St. Louis, Missouri | |
Coordinates | 38°38′11″N 90°14′17″W / 38.6365°N 90.2380°W |
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Type | Art museum |
Public transit access | MetroBus |
Website | www |
The Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) is the world's first interfaith museum of contemporary art that engages religious and spiritual themes. MOCRA highlights the ongoing dialogue between contemporary artists and the world's faith traditions, as well as the ways visual art can encourage and facilitate interfaith understanding. MOCRA is located on the campus of
History
MOCRA had its genesis in the doctoral dissertation of
In 1990 Dempsey was hired as an assistant professor of art history at Saint Louis University, and as the assistant to Maurice B. McNamee, S.J., founding Director of
Renovation of the space began in the spring of 1992, with completion targeted for early September 1992, in time to host a pre-opening conference of the Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture (ARC). Despite unexpected hurdles such as the discovery of asbestos in much of the ceiling and the subsequent abatement measures, which extended the renovation until November 4, 1992, the entire inaugural exhibition was installed in time for the opening of the ARC conference on November 7, 1992.[6]
MOCRA opened to the public on February 14, 1993, with the inaugural exhibition Sanctuaries: Recovering the Holy in Contemporary Art, which featured more than 100 works from a wide-ranging roster of 25 artists.[7]
References
- ^ Miller, Sarah Bryan (24 September 2014). "Axis Mundi' exhibition has art you can take with you". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ Wecker, Menachem (9 April 2015). "A Museum as Big as Texas". Forward. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
- ^ Sudduth, Samantha (29 January 2015). "January 29, 2015 at 2:59 pm MOCRA exhibit shows snapshots of Bhutani life". University News. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ Weir, Alex (22 January 2015). "Vast Bhutan: Images from the Phenomenal World". Riverfront Times. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ "December | 2008 | Museum of Contemporary Religious Art". mocra.wordpress.com. 23 December 2008. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
- ^ "The Artist and Sacred Space". Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2015-10-21.
- ^ "Sanctuaries". Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. 5 December 2008. Retrieved 2015-10-21.