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RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK -- VOTE #AOP2018

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Gregory & Ernest Disney-Britton
Ernest Disney-Britton stands in front of Chris Johnson's "A Question of Faith," a blackboard installation this week at the Oakland Museum of California. Image courtesy of Gregory Disney-Britton
This week, as supporters of President Trump either massacred, murdered or tried to bomb other Americans, the Oakland Museum of California asked visitors, "Do you have faith?" We experienced the museum's temporary public artwork by Chris Johnson this past Tuesday night at the museum, but versions of it are also being shared on billboards throughout Oakland. Johnson's work remixes photographs by celebrated 20th-century documentary photographer Dorothea Lange along with a quote by American preacher and scholar Theodore Parker. When we left Oakland to return home to Indianapolis, we returned with a renewed commitment to promoting faith and fighting racism, and that makes Chris Johnson's "A Question of Faith" our art of the week.

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February 2018 - Carole P. Kunstadt's "Sacred Poem XI," 7.5 × 8 × 1.5 in. 24 karat gold leaf, gampi tissue, thread, paper: pages from Parish Psalmody dated 1844. Private Collection
March 2018 - Gary Gee's "Even with a Cracked Crown, a King is Still a King" (2018). Underglaze, hematite, black diamond, and gold luster on ceramic. 6' x 3-1/3" x 3
April 2018 - Kehinde Wiley's "Lamentation Series"
May 2018 - Patrick McGrath Muniz's "Cruz Y Ficcion" (2018) in CREDO exhibition. Oil on canvas, 42 x 80 inches
June 2018 - Ramon Maiden tattoos Christ, the Virgin Mary and other Christian images
July 2018 - Bill Viola's video game to explore a spiritual journey
August 2018 - Stephen Sawyer's "Calvary" explores heroin addiction
September 2018 - John Gutoskey's "PULSE Nightclub: 49 Elegies" is a series made to honor and commemorate–-with a monoprint–-each of the 49 people massacred at the LQBTQ PULSE nightclub in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016.
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