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Magic of Ice Age Cave Comes to Chicago

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There are ways in which modern technology can serve the most ancient landscapes of myth and art.  A prime example is a special exhibit currently showing at the Field Museum in Chicago:  Scenes from the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux.   Interior rooms of the magnificent Lascaux cave are reproduced to provide a simulated experience of the art of our ancient ancestors.  The Field web site invites us to

Walk through exact cave replicas by flickering light, marveling at full-size copies of the paintings—including some never before seen by the public—and see them through the eyes of ancient artists. Deconstruct the paintings’ many layers of complexities, meet a lifelike Stone Age family, and discover why the true meaning and purpose of the caves remain a mystery even today. 

The exhibit runs from March 20-September 8, 2013.

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St Paul 2013–Events and Restaurants

For those of you who have registered for the symposium–many thanks!  Here is a MN Restaurant list; some are near the Carondolet Center.  Remember that there is a continental breakfast and networking luncheon included in your registration fee–but we’re on our own for dinner.

If you arrive Friday before 7:30, there will be a memorial service for Patricia Monaghan at the Carondolet Center.  If you plan to stay over Saturday night, we have discovered some wonderful theatre offerings that might interest you.  They are also included on the Restaurant List.

We will see you in St. Paul!

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Lydia Ruyle Receives 2013 Brigit Award for the Arts

lydiaWe are honored to offer the 2013 Brigit Award for Excellence in the Arts to Lydia Ruyle. Lydia is an artist scholar emeritus of the Visual Arts faculty, University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, where The Lydia Ruyle Room for Women Artists was dedicated in 2010.  In April 2013, the University presented Lydia with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Few artists can claim to have profoundly expanded and improved contemporary images of women. Lydia is beloved around the globe for her stunning presentation of multicultural goddesses and symbols of divinity.  Her Goddess Icon Banner Project began in 1995 with 18 banners created for exhibit in Ephesus, and has grown to include representations of over 295 goddesses.  The Brigit Award recognizes not only this great body of work but also Lydia’s dedicated scholarship in researching these diverse, inspiring images.

Sid Reger and Dawn Work-Makinne present the Brigit Award to Lydia in St. Paul, while  Lydia’s Gobekli Tepe Sheela banner dances in the background.

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