STH Art Collection Mentioned in Daily Free Press
The original article was published by the Daily Free Press on March 29, 2021 and mentions STH Archivist and Preservation Librarian Kara Jackman and Ada Focer, a research scholar at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. The following is an excerpt only. Please click here to read the original article.
STH presents Margaret Rigg art collection, reminder that art perseveres through difficult times
By Molly Farrar
Art, spirituality and social movements were at the forefront of Margaret Rigg’s art style. As an artist and editor in the late 1950s and early 1960s for motive Magazine — a Methodist Student Movement publication — Rigg used her work to combine art and theology.
Boston University acquired Rigg’s artworks in 2010, and Rigg died a year later. Her works are now on display virtually and the BU community can see the collection in person in the School of Theology Library.
Ada Focer, a research scholar at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at STH, was the driving force behind bringing Rigg’s artwork to BU. When she visited Rigg while on a research trip in 2009, Focer said, she saw motive Magazine in the STH archives and was fascinated by the artwork.