You have just seven days left to play voyeur and devour strangers’ secrets displayed alongside 500 artworks from 50 artists in the American Visionary Art Museum’s All Faiths Beautiful: From Atheism to Zoroastrianism.
The museum’s 13th annual thematic mega-exhibit, which opened in October 2007, “is dedicated to personal explorations of life’s big questions and a communal look at faiths without preaching,” said Museum Director Rebecca Hoffberger.
For All Faiths, Hoffberger selected “people who had the openness to appreciate faiths other than their own and people who courageously forged new territory in their personal life, such as Julia Butterfly Hill,” who shows sketches and journal entries in All Faiths.
Hill didn’t touch the ground for two years while living at the top of a sky-scraping, California redwood tree, Hoffberger said.
“She was raised in a very religious family but felt her greatest spirituality during the two years she sat in the redwood to protect it from loggers.”
Shown alongside All Faiths’ artworks are personal secrets about religious beliefs mailed to Germantown artist and “Post Secret” author Frank Warren, Hoffberger said.
“They serve as an undercurrent of what individuals of diverse backgrounds are really thinking.” For more information, visit avam.org
