Sadao Watanabe Sacred Art Exhibit: "Beauty Given By Grace"
Date and Time
Wednesday Oct 17, 2012 Sunday Mar 24, 2013
October 8, 2012 - March 24, 2013.
Location
The Billy Graham Center, located at 500 College Avenue in Wheaton, offers free parking and is wheelchair accessible.
Fees/Admission
This exhibit is free and open to the public, and is co-sponsored with Christians in the Visual Arts (CIVA).
Website
Contact Information
For more information, call 630.752.5909 or visit the website at www.bgcmuseum.org.
Description
The Billy Graham Center Museum at Wheaton College presents "Beauty Given by Grace", a new traveling exhibit featuring the work of Japanese printmaker Sadao Watanabe.
The Billy Graham Center Museum proudly serves as the inaugural venue for this premier exhibit of private collections composed of 50 of the artist's original stencil prints, calendars, and cards.
As a teen, Sadao Watanabe (1913--1996) converted from Buddhism to Christianity. Through his art he expressed stories of his new faith with indigenous Japanese language and style, depicting biblical themes using a traditional folk art of hand-cut-stencil dyeing technique.
