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

[Lynda Cock]

Thank you for this update. Sounds like a real production.  We have our own
famous artist who has made his mark on several communities.  Thank you,
Paul.   I tried to write to Paul to send him our congratulations but it
bounced.  What e-mail do you have for him?    
 
Gratefully,  Lynda Cock

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[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Ed Feldmanis
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 5:41 PM
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Subject: [Dialogue] The rare representation of the Native American Saint
Katera was moved from ICA today.


Dear Colleagues,


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.


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. 




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.   




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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