Past MOCRA Events
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Day With(out) Art
December 1, 2006
MOCRA observes , a national day of action and mourning in response to the AIDS crisis, with a special presentation of images from the photographic project titled Living Proof.
The 1992鈥93 Living Proof project is a suite of positive portraits of people with HIV/AIDS鈥攑eople who did not experience their diagnosis as an imminent death sentence. Though the dynamics of the HIV/AIDS epidemic have shifted in the intervening years, the images and their accompanying stories are as fresh and compelling now as when they were first published in 1994.
The creative force behind the images is Carolyn Jones, whose wide-ranging career in photography and film includes stints shooting for national magazines like Esquire and Details and directing projects for PBS and Oxygen. MOCRA has five prints from Living Proof in its collection, and has arranged with Jones to project additional portraits in its nave gallery for this Day With(out) Art observance.
The Living Proof images complement MOCRA鈥檚 installation of Andy Warhol鈥檚 Silver Clouds, the mercurial and buoyant pillow-shaped silver mylar balloons that roam the air currents of MOCRA鈥檚 spacious nave gallery.
For many of our visitors who have confronted serious illness, the Silver Clouds have served as a tangible embodiment of the letting go of pain and the hope of healing. On December 1, we invite all those who have experienced HIV and AIDS in some way, to come to MOCRA and share in that experience of hope and healing. -Terrence Dempsey, S.J.
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Day With(out) Art flyer
Listen to artist Carolyn Jones reflecting on Living Proof on Episode 17: MOCRA Memories - Consecrations
Listen to a conversation about the origins of Day With(out) Art on Episode 3: Thomas Sokolowski
| Exhibition | |
|---|---|
| 2018-10-07 to 2018-10-14 | 
Walking in Hope: A Weeklong Celebration of the Canonization of Archbishop Oscar Romero |
| 2017-04-20 | 
鈥淭he Hand Acts Out a Joyous Dance鈥: Celebrating the Art of Bernard Maisner |
| 2016-09-25 | 
Erika Diettes: 鈥淪tories Told from the Threshold鈥 |
| 2015-12-06 | 
So That You Know Each Other: Intercultural Reflections on Art, Beauty, and Islam |
| 2014-11-15 | 
John Handley: “The Religious Art of Pablo Picasso” |
| 2018-09-28 to 2018-09-29 | 
Fleur-de-Lis Floral Art Walk |
| 2014-02-23 | 
鈥淭he Economy of Gift鈥 in Socially Engaged Art Practices: A Public Deliberation |
| 2013-10-02 | 
Art21: The Spiritual Light screening at CAM |
| 2013-03-02 | 
Rituals and Spirituality in the Performative Photographic Work of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons |
| 2012-11-11 | 
Breaking Boundaries: A Conversation about the Art of Patrick Graham |
| 2012-05-20 | 
Stephen P. Durchslag: 鈥淭he Jewish Experience and the Haggadah鈥 |
| 2012-03-27 |
2012 Loyola Chair Lecture: “The Image of the Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Consciousness” |
| 2011-10-06 |
2011 Loyola Chair Lecture: 鈥淭he Pursuit of the Spirit: The Renewed Interest in the Spiritual and Religious Dimensions in Contemporary Art鈥 |
| 2011-05-01 | 
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淕eorges Rouault and the Art of Sacred Engagement鈥 |
| 2010-11-15 |
Terrence Demspey, S.J.: “Creating a Religious Environment through Contemporary Art and Architecture” |
| 2010-03-28 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: “The Wounded Body of Christ and the Modern Social Conscience” |
| 2009-12-01 | 
Day With(out) Art |
| 2009-11-15 | 
Michael Byron: “Cosmic Tears: Word and Image” |
| 2009-03-29 | 
Art and the Religious Imagination |
| 2008-04-15 | 
Wu Hung: 鈥淲hat Is Contemporary Chinese Art?鈥 |
| 2007-10-07 | 
Celluloid Bible Classics: The Ten Commandments |
| 2007-11-04 | 
Celluloid Bible Classics: Ben-Hur |
| 2007-09-16 | 
Michael Morris, O.P.: 鈥淢oving Pictures: The Bible and Beyond鈥 |
| 2007-03-30 | 
Peter Frank: 鈥淎n Oskar Fischinger Tribute鈥 |
| 2006-12-01 |
Day With(out) Art |
| 2005-12-04 | 
Robert Rosenblum: 鈥淒oDo Jin Ming: An Art Historian's View鈥 |
| 2003-09-07 | 
To Make Extraordinary: The Role of Sacred Objects in Life and Worship |
| 2002-05-04 | 
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A University Response |
| 2002-04-30 | 
Fred D. Gray: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: A Study That Should Never Have Occurred |
| 2002-01-31 | 
Cloudlanders |
| 2002-01-26 | 
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Last Temptation: Andy Warhols Art as Belief鈥 |
| 2000-11-30 | 
Day With(out) Art |
| 2001-04-06 | 
Bare Naked Statues in concert |
| 1999-04-15 | 
Two Lectures: Ellen Dissanayake and Jack Renard |
| 1999-03-27 | 
Bernard Maisner: 鈥淭he Art of the Illuminator鈥 |
| 1998-03-22 | 
Renaissance and Modern |
| 1997-11-15 | 
The Role of the Computer in Contemporary Art |
| 1997-07-24 | 
Jennifer Biddle: Body, Country, Canvas: Meaning and Identity in Central Desert Aboriginal Women鈥檚 Art |
| 1997-06-07 |
Creativity as Ancestral Mind: Living with the Ancestors |
| 1997-02-27 | 
The Artist and the Theologian Dialogue: The Body of Christ as Veiling and Unveiling the Invisible God |
| 1996-12-01 | 
Day Without Art |
| 1996-05-19 | 
The Artist as Poet: Readings by Edward Boccia |
| 1995-05-20 | 
Ian Friend: 鈥淭he Edge of Belief鈥 |
| 1995-05-04 | 
Peter Selz: 鈥淒egenerate Art鈥 |
| 1995-02-05 | 
Lynn Hague in recital |
| 1994-11-13 |
Terrence Dempsey, S.J.: 鈥淭he Spiritual in Art in the Time of AIDS鈥 |
| 1994-12-01 |
Day Without Art |
| 1994-11-05 |
Thomas Sokolowski: 鈥淭he Changing Face of AIDS鈥 |
| 1994-11-01 |
The Amici String Quartet in recital |
| 1994-10-15 | 
Consecrations: The Spiritual in Art in the TIme of AIDS dance program and opening reception |
| 1993-10-29 | 
I Remember Alvin |
| 1993-11-05 | 
An Evening with Katherine Dunham |
| 1992-11-07 | 
The Artist and Sacred Space |