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Recent Acquisitions Releases Press Release Archive |
First Friday Art Tour Gives Insight to St. John's Bible Tyler, TX—Tyler Museum of Art will offer a special First Friday Art Tour August 4 at 11 a.m. connected with the current major exhibition, Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible. Attendees will hear an informative presentation on Gospels and Acts, led by Bob Thompson, TMA director of education. Tickets to the First Friday Art Tour are $5 for TMA members, $13 for non-members, and $11 for senior citizens and college students, and include exhibition admission. For tickets or more information call 903-595-1001. Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible, on display at the Tyler Museum of Art through September 3, was organized by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Saint John’s University, and made possible by a grant from Target Stores. The Saint John’s Bible, commissioned by the Benedictine monks of Saint John’s University at a cost in excess of $4 million, is considered the most significant hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible to be commissioned since the invention of the printing press. The exhibition in Tyler includes pages from the first three completed volumes: the Pentateuch, Gospels and Acts, and Psalms. The artistic director of The Saint John’s Bible, Donald Jackson, still works daily in his scriptorium in Wales, where he and a select group of artists and calligraphers push to complete the project. When completed in 2007, the Bible will consist of 1,150 pages in seven volumes. Then it will be housed permanently at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, where it will be used in worship and be available to scholars and the public. After leaving Tyler in September, the exhibition will be displayed in the Library of Congress and at art museums in Naples, Florida; Phoenix and Mobile. Tyler Museum of Art is the only Texas venue for the exhibition. First Friday Art Tour attendees will hear details about illuminations on view in the North Gallery where Gospels and Acts is on display, including illustrations of The Birth of Christ, The Parable of the Loaves and Fishes, The Sermon on the Mount, The Parable of the Sower and the Seed, Dinner at the Pharisee’s House, The Woman Accused of Adultery, The Raising of Lazarus, and The Crucifixion. Original artist sketches are on view, as is a worktable from the scriptorium where the artists work, displaying materials such as quills, hand-ground pigments, gold leaf, calfskin vellum, and ancient inks from China. |