Please join us for the opening reception of Blackfriar Gallery’s new exhibit, “Conversations: Engaging Ethiopian Iconography” by Bonnie Hardwick, Sunday, September 25, 2022, from 2 to 4 p.m.
Bonnie Hardwick, former director of the Graduate Theological Union Library and long-time iconographer, explores the multicultural influences expressed in the Ethiopian iconographic tradition. The conversation is multivalent: the iconographer’s engagement with the subject, the relationship between the icon and the viewer, the conversation within the icon itself, and ultimately an encounter with the Divine.