[Dialogue] The rare representation of the Native American Saint Katera was moved from ICA today.

[Ed Feldmanis]

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Dear Colleagues,
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Picture Paul Noah caring for one of his "babies." There was noise,
measuring, drilling, sawing,  as a crew of workers attacked one of the
building's murals.

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*Paul Noah along with input from a Native American supervised the moving of
an indoor mural of his Katera, a **Iroquois-Algonquin native Catholic
saint.  This is one of many of Noah's murals located at the ICA.
 Heartland, an ICA tenant, will expand in the space of the former Anawim
Center and it was feared the mural would be lost.*

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*Representations of this saint are very rare. **This appears to be the
newest known mural of Saint Katera and it was moved & transported
today. * * Riggers
cut the mural out of the wall and had to cut the wall into two pieces in
order to get it out of the building. The saint known as the "virgin saint"
and the "healing saint" is of Native American origin and is regarded as
precious in many American Indian communities.  *

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*The mural was located in the halls approaching the Aniwim Center on the
2nd floor at the Institute of Cultural Affairs, ICA, building in Chicago.
The Center relocated and was renamed the Katera Center and so now the
Center is reclaiming its missing saint.  The mural was a gift to the Center
from the ICA. The mural was actually painted by Paul Noah, certainly a
fine-artist, who at the time was artist-in-residence at the Institute.
Noah,  for those who don't know, is also a rancher-farmer who spends part
of his time on his Colorado spread. Noah will make arrangements to restore
the mural once it is re-situated.*
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