Traveling Exhibitions

  • Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos


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    Winner of the 2009 
Talking Hands Award

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    Healing and faith have always played a role in the lives of the faithful. They are interwoven in the fabric of social history. How we regard illness and healing, and how we cope with them have captured our imagination throughout the ages.

    The expression of our relationship with illness is wonderfully illustrated in the ex-voto, a devotional painting that gives thanks to a saint or deity for a miraculous healing or blessing. The faithful have always used prayer to invoke the aid of saints as a means to heal the sick and end one's suffering. These devotional paintings are an individual's expression of thanks for the intercession of the divine in a crisis, a snapshot in time of illness and healing. They offer a rare opportunity to view health, healing and illness through the hearts and minds of the ordinary person.



     Exhibition Specifications – Poster

    Exhibition panels 1 and 2 for Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos.
     
      Contents: Two 94 in. x 46 in. laminated posters
     
      Size: 20 linear feet of wall space
     
      Packing: Exhibition is packed in one
    plastic wheeled graphics tube,
    50 in. H x 12 in. W
     
      Shipping: Incoming - cost estimate
    $200-$500
     
      Booking
      Period:
    Variable
     

 Exhibition Tour Itinerary

09/15/09 - 11/15/09   West Virginia University
  Health Sciences Center
  Charleston, WV
 
11/23/09 – 01/08/10   Our Lady of the Lake College
  Baton Rouge, LA
 
04/05/10 – 05/31/10   Loyola Stritch School of Medicine
  Health Sciences Library
  Maywood, IL
 

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Resources

  Exhibition Brochure (pdf)


  Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos Exhibition Web Site

Last reviewed: 14 October 2009
Last updated: 14 October 2009
First published: 09 July 2009
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