Secularization Breeds Collaboration in “Blessed Are the Artists” Exhibit at Caldwell College

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By Elke Reva Sudin

Finding Home #79 “Ishq”, 2006 by Siona Benjamin

NEW JERSEY---Threatened by secularization in the wake of modernization, members of different religions are joining together to give strength and inspiration to one another, even if their practices, backgrounds, and beliefs differ. Comes to play, "Blessed Are the Artists," an exhibit at Caldwell College bringing together 20 artists from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds. Historically a Catholic college, the institution considered doing an exhibition on Christian art, when curator Yulia Tikhonova decided to make the exhibition theme broader. The exhibition shows such a variety of approaches to religion in art and does not make one stance or another, allowing for each approach to be right. [link]

Blessed Are the Artists runs from October 11 to November 10th, 2012. Caldwell College is located at 120 Bloomfield Ave., Caldwell, N.J.