About a Tree: ficus religiosa and karuna
Detail of 18th-century painting in Kandyan Buddhist shrine, Sri Lanka. Image courtesy of Janice Leoshko.
This exhibition, organized by Art History students at UT Austin, concerns the unexpected impacts of a special tree blessed by the Dalai Lama during a visit to the university in 2005. His talk while on campus, “Individual Responsibility in the Global Community,” addressed the notion of karuna, or compassion. The exhibition considers how an exploration of our relationship to a botanical entity might raise questions surrounding the practice of karuna.
Participating Students
Anderson Dean
Julia Garrett
Emma Halvorson
Nick Hargroue
Virginia Harrell
Hayden Juroska
Amara Klemann
Paisley Polk
Jessica Seymour
Lilly Taylor
Madison Williams
Organized by Janice Leoshko, Art History faculty, with students in ARH 321: Problems in Art Historical Research.
This exhibition is part of Fieldwork Projects, a series of dynamic collaborations between faculty and students in the Department of Art and Art History that take on various forms and enable the ideas and processes developed in the classroom to be brought into the public sphere.