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Message from the Curator
BOARD OF ADVISORS
Kathleen Beaulieu
Matthew Dattilo
Patrick Dorsey, S.J.
Marsha Goldstein
Nevin Hedlund
Virginia Hogan
Ellen Landgraf
Peter LoGiudice
Judy McCaskey
Denise Noell
Dr. Robert Roemer
Frank Novel
Adrienne Traisman
Debra Yates
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Dear Members and Friends:
2016 has been a very productive year at LUMA. We focused on building connections
with Loyola University Chicago and expanding our community partnerships. Our
exhibitions addressed a wide range of social issues including Alzheimer’s disease,
Spanish colonialism, human trafficking, and eminent domain. Throughout the
year, LUMA’s public programs, including artist talks, scholarly lectures, panel
discussions, music and dance performances, art workshops and film screenings
were designed to represent diverse perspectives, encourage public discourse, and
foster community engagement. We endeavored to serve the Loyola community
including students, faculty, staff, and alumni as well as community members and
out-of town guests. A brief review of highlights from 2016 illustrates the richness
of our interdisciplinary collaborations, the array of our community partnerships,
and LUMA’s dedication to presenting underrepresented perspectives.
Our exhibition
William Utermohlen: A Persistence of Memory
, the largest and
most comprehensive retrospective of the artist’s work, illustrated the continuity
as well as the rupture that dementia brought upon his art and visually illustrated
the progress of the disease. In conjunction with the exhibition, LUMA hosted
a screening of the film
I Remember Better When I Paint
accompanied by a
discussion led by Berna Huebner, the film’s co-director and co-producer.
I
Remember Better When I Paint
is the first international documentary about the
positive impact of art and other creative therapies on people with Alzheimer’s
disease. In addition, we offered two workshops to creatively work with people
diagnosed with dementia. The workshop
Don’t Look Away: Using Storytelling to
Give Voice, Find Connections, and Change Perception
was led by Lauren Dowden,
MSWLSW (member of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center
at Northwestern University). The workshop, The Memory Ensemble, was led
by Dr. Christine Mary Dunford (an ensemble member with the Lookingglass
Theatre Company) in collaboration with Dr. Darby Morhardt (member of the
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University).
Another highlight was the exhibition
Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art
for which we partnered with a variety of Loyola University faculty to create
additional related programs. Mark Bosco, S.J., Associate Professor of English
and Theology, introduced and led a discussion of the film
The Mission
(1986);
D. Scott Hendrickson, S.J., Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director
of Spanish, offered a gallery talk where he discussed the social / historical
context in which this art was produced; and Gustavo Leone, Professor of Music,
gave a lecture about
San Ignacio
, an opera composed in the Jesuit missions