Maybe it’s because I’m relatively new to St. Louis, but I only just learned that we have here in town a museum that bills itself as “the world’s first interfaith museum of contemporary art.” Saint Louis University’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) sounds like a pretty intriguing place, and this weekend looks like a great time to check it out. They’ve got a brand new exhibition, Pursuit of the Spirit, to celebrate their fifteenth anniversary.

There’s a free reception on Sunday, September 21, from 1 to 4 pm. Directions and more details can be found on the links above.

One blurb on their website that really stood out for me:

In a time when religion is a predominant topic in societies throughout the word–often generating more heat than light–MOCRA continues to foster dialogue that seeks deeper understanding of others’ traditions and greater appreciation of one’s own.

Very cool–and not far from what we’ve been trying to do on this blog.

It occurs to me that a couple of other bloggers on this site (Scott Lamb, Travis Scholl) have written nice posts based on some connection they have made to a work of art or an artist. I hope that anyone who makes it to the MOCRA exhibition will add a comment to this post and let the rest of us know what you see.

Picture credit: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Cia Cara #1, 2008. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art.