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Recent Acquisitions Releases Press Release Archive |
TMA Saint John's Bible Tour to focus on the Pentateuch Tyler, TX—Tyler Museum of Art will offer a special First Friday Art Tour July 7 at 11 a.m. connected with the current major exhibition, Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible. A few tickets are still available for attendees to hear an informative presentation on The Pentateuch, led by Bob Thompson, TMA director of education, and Elnora Williams, group tour coordinator. Tickets to the First Friday Art Tour are $5 for TMA members, $13 for non-members, and $11 for senior citizens and college students. The price includes a ticket to the tour, as well as admission to the entire exhibition. For tickets or more information call 903-595-1001. Commissioned by Saint John’s Abbey and Saint John’s University in Collegeville, MN, The Saint John’s Bible is a contemporary work created in the tradition of manuscripts made before the invention of the printing press. The artistic director of the project, Donald Jackson, is one of the world’s foremost calligraphers and scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Crown Office at the House of Lords. During the past five years, Jackson has worked in rural Wales, United Kingdom, with scribes and artists to write and illuminate The Saint John’s Bible entirely by hand, using quills and paints hand-ground from precious stones and minerals, and rich applications of 24-karat gold which appear to make many of the illustrations glow on the calf-skin pages. Tyler Museum of Art is the only museum in Texas scheduled to exhibit The Saint John’s Bible. After closing in Tyler September 3, the exhibition will be shown at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, but the Bible will be permanently housed in Minnesota. The Illuminating the Word exhibition features pages from the first three completed volumes of The Saint John’s Bible: the Pentateuch (the first five books of Jewish and Christian scripture), Gospels and Acts, and Psalms. Among the illuminations on view in the Pentateuch pages are The Seven Days of Creation, Genesis, Adam & Eve, Jacob’s Ladder, Moses and the Serpent, The Ten Commandments, and The Death of Moses, along with other special treatments. Original artist sketches are on view in the same gallery, as are 15th and 16th century books from the special collections of Saint John’s University. |