Please join us this fall for the annual international Symposium for Pilgrimage Studies. This year’s theme is Comparing Pilgrimage: Layers of Meaning and Motion. BAIPP Founding Director Dr. Kathryn Barush and Dr. Rachel H. Smith, Gilkison Distinguished Professor of Art History, Taylor University and Director of ASCHA will discuss Contemporary Art as Pilgrimage Journey and Sacred Site. Justin Grosnick, SJ, current Graduate Theological Union PhD student, will present on Jagannath the Pilgrim: Pilgrimage as Envisioned from the Perspective of Sacred Images.

Reimagining: Faith, Hope, and Love features approximately 20 paintings by Los Angeles based visual artist, Deborah Lanino, made between 2020 and 2024. One could say art is in her DNA, going back to Renaissance Italy. These selected works were inspired by an ancestral, spiritual and art infused pilgrimage that reflects a contemporary view of traditional subject matter seen in Renaissance art.