The Interfaith Center- Case Western Reserve University
The Imagery in the  Interfaith Center Mural was collected during visioning workshops with the student groups of  the Interfaith Center. Through a series of 12 interview sessions it was found that the common themes and imagery that different faith communities wanted to see in the Interfaith Mural were most prominently  images of forgiveness, blessing and reconciliation. The ceremonies or practices we all partake in that involve water became the overarching theme that best represented the need for forgiveness, reconciliation and blessing amongst and between our faith communities.  As part of the ceremony  I have asked representatives from each campus ministry to say a prayer or reading related to water.  The Cleveland Boychoir and Sitar Player Hasu Patel have been asked to creatively respond with music to the  images of water throughout the mural.
Expression of ones faith is an inward and outward interaction with ourselves and each other.  The images included in this mural are  created  from student’s suggestions  such as depicting baptism, Miriam's well, and the need to show our tearful sorrow in order to arrive at reconciliation.   I had requests to show  raining light,  to express our common source of creation through which we find our humanity, and   to include a river with deep banks that we are afraid to cross but that shows people of separate lands choosing to try.  The imagery is but a beginning to a form of creative dialogue between our faith communities. Interfaith  dialogue is its own creation, and it is my hope that this mural is but a beginning to the creative unity to come. —Katherine Chilcote

Location

11205 Euclid Ave Cleveland Ohio 44106



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