Center for the Arts & Religion (CARe)

The Center for the Arts & Religion (CARe) promotes scholarship, reflection, and practice in the arts and religion to serve the Graduate Theological Union and to benefit the community.

 

CARe Library Exhibitions

See what's on view in the GTU Library!

Check out CARe Package, the official CARe blog!

Bay Area MFA Show 4

The fourth iteration of this annual exhibition celebrating the work of recently graduated students from the Bay Area's five leading MFA programs.

The Creatives' Cove

CARe helps support the Creatives' Cove, a GTU student group focused on cultivating and connecting scholars with an interest in creativity and the arts.

Courses and Degree Programs

The GTU offers a variety of courses and opportunity in the concentration of Arts & Religion, as part of the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion.

Scholarships

Art & Religion students in Doctoral programs are eligible for a range of generous financial aid packages and fellowships.

Grants

CARe is pleased to offer grants of up to $2,000 to GTU students and faculty in support of projects that center on religion & the arts.

About CARe

CARe is the arts center of the GTU, providing opportunities in the visual arts, dance, theater, music, and literature for students, faculty, staff, and the community.

Art and Religion at the GTU

The Art and Religion concentration at the GTU is a robust area of study, with core doctoral faculty at the GTU, supported by additional faculty with expertise in aesthetics and the arts across the GTU consortium.

CARe People

CARe is made up of lots of fantastic people. We have our core staff members, as well as Art & Religion Faculty, Consortial faculty, and of course - our fabulous students!

FIND US!

The Doug Adams Gallery is open to the public, free of charge 

Tuesdays - Fridays | 10am - 4pm

Special Weekend Hours: Sunday, February 9, March 9, April 6, & May 18 | 12 - 5pm

Bay Area MFA Show 4 Closing Celebration

Celebrate the closing of the Bay Area MFA Show 4 with refreshments, music, a chance to speak with the artists, and the opportunity to experience the immersive, traveling artwork, Symphony of a Missing Room.

Doug Adams Gallery
5:00pm to 7:00pm

CARe Dillenberger Lecture - Art as Divine Instrument: Medieval & Comparative Perspectives

The GTU welcomes prominent scholars of late medieval and early modern European art to discuss the physical instrumentality of religious paintings, manuscripts, and objects. Presentations by Kathryn Rudy (University of St. Andrews) and Reindert Falkenburg (NYU-Abu Dhabi) will be followed by a panel...

Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Dinner Board Room
1:30pm to 5:00pm

Opening Reception! Sacred Mobility: The Travels of Hindu & Eastern Orthodox Holy Images Opening reception 

Inspired by diasporic communities in the Bay Area, this exhibition explores the movement of sacred objects within Hindu and Eastern Orthodox traditions. The material manifestations of the sacred—gods, saints, divinity—move across space and time via physical transport and through replication and...

Doug Adams Gallery
5:00pm to 7:00pm