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Depicting the Divine with Laura Mueller

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Depicting the Divine with Laura Mueller

On Tuesday, January 25th at 6:00 p.m. central, the LaSalle Public Library will virtually host Laura Mueller, Artist and Art Historian, when she presents, “Depicting the Devine.”

From a solitary hand to multiple arms, from a nimbus of light surrounding a figure to blue skin, a pelican, a waterfall; all these have been used by artists to distinguish the divine. Religious institutions and texts often stipulated the ways in which God, gods and goddesses were to be shown. Laura Mueller from the Art Institute of Chicago will explore and compare examples from Eastern and Western traditions, both the ancient and the new in this virtual program.

Laura Mueller worked for the Art Institute’s Department of Museum Education from 1987 to 2017. She has taught courses in literature and art history at local colleges. Laura has been an Art Institute study leader on several of their trips to Europe, including Adriatic Odyssey, Holland and Belgium, the prehistoric caves of southwest France, and Normandy and Paris in the north of France. She holds a B.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.A. from the University of Chicago in Comparative Literature; she has also studied art with NYU in Venice, Italy.

This program is free and open to all. It will be presented virtually through Zoom.

To attend this program, register by going to - https://bit.ly/3J6Lxgt. For more information, please contact the LaSalle Public Library at 815-223-2341 or email Rachael Blomquist at rblomquist@lasalle.lib.il.us.

LaSalle Public Library
https://bit.ly/3J6Lxgt
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM on Tue, 25 Jan 2022

Artist Group Info

Laura Mueller
LaSalle Public Library
305 Marquette Street
LaSalle, Illinois 61301
815-223-2341
rblomquist@lasalle.lib.il.us