New Haven
Religious Artists Make The World A Gallery
by | Jul 3, 2024 10:00 am
Posted to: Visual Art
Mia Lang
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“Life could be black and white like the old TVs. Instead, God made it like an art gallery.” These are the words of Msgr. Paul Steimel on Aug. 27, 2020, hanging beside his portrait, Clothed in Christ, in the Blessed Michael McGivney Pilgrimage Center’s new exhibit,“Do This In Memory of Me: National Sacred Art Exhibit,” running now through Aug. 25.
The show — its title taken from the words of Jesus during the Last Supper, before he was crucified — demonstrates the ways in which humans represent and interpret that which they hold sacred, showing how people relate to Christianity and how they can share it with others through the medium of art.
Much of the artwork in the gallery depicts the figure of Jesus in a variety of interpretations.
