Lecture & Reception: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings

Join us for an in-depth look at Visualizing Devotion: Jain Embroidered Shrine Hangings, a new exhibition highlighting Jain devotional textiles (chhoda) from the Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection, promised gifts to the Fowler Museum. Eye-catching works comprised of velvet and sateen cloth lavishly embroidered with gold and silver-gilt thread, chhoda shine with visual references to Jain mythology, influential spiritual teachers, sacred sites, ritual traditions, and other crucial religious themes. In addition to objects from the Linde Collection, the installation includes devotional works lent by representatives of the museum’s community partner the Jain Center of Southern California (JCSC).   

This event celebrates this important partnership through which the Fowler curators and educators learned about the history, practices, and ethics of local Jain communities.

2–3 pm:
Talk by Lynna Dhanani, assistant professor, department of religious studies, UC Davis

3–4 pm:
Reception in the Fowler Courtyard 

Image credit: Unidentified artist(s), (Gujarat, India), Om Hrim Praise to the Blessed Circle of the Perfected Ones, 1965; velvet, silk cloth, gold and silver gilt thread, plated metal sequins, cotton thread, wire, glass; Promised Gift from the Ronald and Maxine Linde Collection, L2022.13.12