Skip to main content

Friday Offerings: "The Sacred Space of the Present Moment"

Kurt Simonson

    • Friday, September 18, 2015
    • 9:30–10:20 a.m. Pacific
  • Chase Gymnasium
  • Hosted By: Spiritual Development
  • Open to: Students

Cost and Admission

This event is free to attend.


Join Kurt Simonson, professor of photography in the art department, as he talks about themes of sacred space and sacred time, particularly in relationship to his photographic practice. He will share images and stories of times when he has seen God at work in the present moment.

Speakers

Kurt Simonson

Kurt Simonson (b. 1977 in St Paul, Minnesota) is an artist/educator whose work explores the longings and tensions that surround our ideas of home, community, and identity.  Whether connecting the myth and memory of his own upbringing in Minnesota, wandering the globe in search of alternate forms of community, or taking intimate portraits of his closest friends, questions about family, story, and belonging remain at the heart of his curiosity.  

Kurt's work is regularly exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including a recent solo exhibition at Newspace Center for Photography in Portland, Oregon, and group exhibits at the San Diego Museum of Art, the Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado), RayKo Photo Center (San Francisco, California), and the Foto8 Gallery in London, England.  His work has been published in the London Sunday Times Magazine, Fraction MagazineLenscratch, AintBad, and Dodho Magazine.  In 2012 he received a Curator’s Choice award from CENTER Santa Fe and was shortlisted in Photolucida's Critical Mass, and in 2015 he was named one of LensCulture’s 50 Emerging Talents.  

Kurt teaches at Biola University in La Mirada, California, where he is an Associate Professor of Photography in the Art Department.  He lives and works in Long Beach, where you can probably find him eating breakfast. 


Questions?

Contact:
(562) 903-4874
chapel@biola.edu