Special Panel Discussion on the Artist Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011)

The Center for the Arts, Religion and Education (CARE) announces a panel discussion on the artist Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011) at the de Young Museum, in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition Matter + Spirit: The Sculpture of Stephen De Staebler.

The panel will include Timothy Anglin Burgard, Ednah Root Curator in Charge of American Art for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Nancy M. Servis, Executive Director of the Richmond Art Center; and John Toki, a noted Bay Area sculptor and former assistant to Stephen De Staebler. The discussion will be moderated by John Handley, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.

The panel discussion is free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary. Seating is first come, first seated.
Koret Auditorium
de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco

Artist's Talk with Consuelo Underwood

Consuelo Jimenez Underwood, nationally known weaver and fiber artist will share images of her work as a backdrop for a discussion of faith, immigration and foodways, using the tortilla and other food of the Americas as emblematic of these themes. Consuelo J. Underwood is Professor Emeritus (1987-2009), School of Arts & Design, San Jose State University. She has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally. Her work is part of the permanent collections of museums including the Smithsonian American Museum of Art, Museum of Art & Design in NY, the National Hispanic Center for the Arts, NM, the Oakland Museum in Oakland, and the Mexican Museum in San Francisco. Her contributions to the contemporary Chicano and Fiber art movements have been referenced in multiple critical publications. Consuelo J. Underwood was born in Sacramento, CA and received her BA and her MA from San Diego State University in 1981. She developed and was Head of the Fiber/Textile program at San Jose State University in the Spatial Area in the School of Arts & Design after receiving her MFA from San Jose State University in 1987. In 2009, she withdrew from academia to focus on artmaking. “My work reflects the quiet rage that has permeated the Americas for more than five hundred years.”

Idea Lounge

Faculty from diverse schools and departments on campus will come together over a brown bag lunch to reflect on the "Migrant Project" exhibition from their own disciplinary and theological perspectives.

Faculty Speakers:
Deena Aronoff, Center for Jewish Studies
Christopher Renz, Dean, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
Rossitza Schroeder, Pacific School of Religion/Center for the Arts, Religion and Education

This particular Idea Lounge will also feature the student winner from our spring writing prize competition who will read their winning essay after the Idea Lounge.