Join the Arts Council of First Presbyterian church for lunch and a guided docent tour of the High museum's next exhibit, "The Mask and The Cross".
Boxed Lunch- 12:00 P.M. Women's Bible Study Room- Immediately following worship
Guided Group Tour- 1:00 P.M.
About the exhibit: This is the first solo exhibition at an American museum for sculptor and printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya. The Mask and the Cross describes the artist’s creative phase with works marrying Nigerian tradition, folklore, and cosmology with Catholic motifs and stories from the Bible. This period began with the creation of a series commissioned by the Catholic Church titled Fourteen Stations of the Cross, which depicts scenes from the last earthly day of Jesus Christ. Onobrakpeya portrays Biblical characters as Nigerian and reimagines Biblical scenes in Nigerian settings. This exhibition will consider religious “double belonging” as an exercise in agency, subversion, and cultural resilience.