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Exhibit: Dreamers and Believers: Cathedral Builders Open through October 2008 Engaging exhibit using stories, voices, images, and film to celebrate the visionaries, donors, artists, and workers who built the Cathedral.
Centennial Liturgical ArtEvocative banners by renowned liturgical artist Nancy Chinn now grace the Cathedral’s piers with vivid colors and luminous hues. These engaging banners lead us on a spiritual pilgrimage, visually guiding us through the seasons of the Christian year and helping to frame the biblical stories that undergird each season.
Film: Cathedral TodayWorld premiere and screenings of Cathedral Today, a film chronicling the Cathedral’s legacy and future by renowned filmmaker Martin Doblmeier of Journey Films. Watch short video The Cathedral at 100, celebrating the Cathedral’s building, ministry, and calling for its second century.
Past Events
Soaring Spaces, Inspiring ArtistryCentennial lecture and tour series on the artistry of Washington National Cathedral Saturdays, March 29–June 14, 2008, except May 24, Memorial Day weekend Hundreds of visitors had a rare opportunity to explore the majesty of the only Gothic cathedral to be built entirely in the twentieth century. They discovered how an unknown sculptor won a commission to design the much-heralded Creation sculptures over the Cathedral main entrance, learned why the Cathedral ranked third in a national poll of America’s favorite architecture, heard about the immigrant stone carvers who devoted their lives to shaping the Cathedral’s limestone, and much more. A Cathedral Centennial celebration offering, these eleven programs explored incomparable artisanship and architecture of the Cathedral’s magnificent spaces. Each presentation included a slide lecture and a tour, often to areas not usually open to the public.
Lighting to Unite: Lighting the Nation, Uniting the WorldMay 9–11, 2008 For three nights, Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter brought his art and artistry to Washington National Cathedral. His spectacular illuminations were a part of the Cathedral’s observance of the feast of Pentecost and was the feature of “Lighting to Unite: Lighting the Nation, Uniting the World,” celebrating the Cathedrals’s reconciliation mission and ministry as we end the centennial year and move into our second century.
Exhibit: The Keiskamma Project: Giving Life Through ArtJanuary 16–March 9, 2008 The Cathedral was honored to host the magnificent artwork of the Keiskamma Project. 130 townspeople of an AIDS-ravaged seaside town in South Africa created the devotional work through embroidery, beadwork, appliqué and photography. The piece was on view in St. John’s Chapel and the Cathedral was its only East Coast venue.
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