Wohl’s show, Birds of Longing: Exile and Longing, interweaves Muslim, Jewish and Christian poetry and spiritual texts for the period of the Convivencia in Spain (the eighth through the 15th centuries) and from contemporary Middle Eastern poets, particularly Palestinian and Israeli. There is an audio component to the project and consists of readings in English, Arabic and Hebrew of the portions of the poems and spiritual texts contained in the Unweavings.

Terry Taylor, executive director of Interfaith Paths to Peace, will present his show, A Pilgrim Lens, alongside Wohl. The photos displayed were taken during Terry’s “sometimes sacred, sometimes secular spiritual journeys around the US and around the world.”

Taylor worked as a journalist early in his career, shooting black and white photos for print. Today he has adopted as an intentional aesthetic the use of an iPhone and simple cameras to produce photos that are printed as-is, with little or no digital manipulation.

Peace Postcards will also participate in the event with a public art project set up outside of the Patio Gallery. Peace Postcards is a public art project based out of Louisville that allows people to draw on postcards their vision of peace and add them to a gallery of postcards from all over the world. Some of the postcards will be shown in Peace Postcard exhibitions.

Peace Postcards began in January 2009. Allan Weiss, a Louisville lawyer and peace activist working with Interfaith Paths to Peace, wondered what would happen if the public were allowed to draw their visions of peace on postcards. Five years later, Peace Postcards has more than 20,000 postcards from 25 countries around the world.

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 8:30 am - 9pm
Friday: 8:30am - 7pm
Saturday: CLOSED
Sunday: 9 am - 6pm