Inaugural Week
John Giuliani
A Visual Ministry of Reconciliation:
A Conversation with Artist John Giuliani
Italian American artist and priest John Giuliani sees traditional iconography as giving “witness to the human face of the Sacred.” Through his art, Giuliani, celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence of the Americas and as a prophetic sign. His icons, imaged in the features of the Americas’ indigenous peoples, both reveal sacred power and serve as an act of reparation for the violence done onto the first peoples of the continent. His work appears in several churches in South Dakota including the Pine Ridge Reservation, the Rosebud, and the Church of Isaac Jogues, of Rapid City; and fourteen panels are at home in the Crow Church of St. Dennis, Crow Agency, Montana.
Presenter: Fr. John B. Giuliani was ordained in 1960. He holds an MA in theology from St. John Seminary in Brighton, an MA in classical studies from Fordham and an MA in American Studies from Fairfield University. He resumed his early interest in art at the Benedictine Grange, a small monastic community that he established in 1977 in West Redding, Connecticut. In 1989, he studied icon painting in New York under a master in the Russian Orthodox style before beginning his Giuliani’s works have been exhibited in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut, the Marian Institute in Dayton, Ohio, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music in New Haven, Connecticut and the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
To learn more about John Giuliani and his art see http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/gallery/johngallery.html
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* Art depicted is entitled Jesus &
the Disciples
Jesus and the Disciples stand side by side, positioned as if for a group photograph. Jesus is wrapped in a Navajo Chief blanket, and each disciple in one of distinctive Navajo design.