PUTTING ART (back) IN ITS PLACE

And yet a couple years ago at my own institution, two graduating art majors (Anna Taylor and Garrett Ames-Ledbetter, both alumni of the semester program in Orvieto that provided the seedbed for this book) drafted a proposal for a series of wall murals for the new Science Center on campus. (Photograph by the author)

Each of these combined figurative and abstract elements which, together, set into almost cosmic play the fundamental patterns at work in each science. The mural has since been put in its place in the community. After all, most sectors of the community contributed to its making. (Photograph by the author)

Finally, as I write this conclusion, my friend Bruce Herman has arrived at the Divinity School of Duke University to take up a commission to paint a Resurrection in one of the chapels. Having earned the appreciation of the dean for his theologically rich and visually complex treatments of the Passion, Herman was given the challenge to apply the same skill and sensibility to the mystery of the Lord’s Resurrection.  (Photograph courtesy of Dan Train)