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Honorable Mention: 2004 Awards of Achievement
Leave it to a mulit-gallery exhibition titled The Buddha Project: Visual Manifestations of Buddhist Thought in the Western World to contemplate so complex a question: How is the transfer of Buddhist ideas from Eastern to Western cultures expressed in contemporary visual art? Using works that represented Buddhism both as tradition and abstract idea, The Buddha Project, (curated by CSU’s Jeanne Grossetti and Robert Thurmer) featured paintings, photographs, works on paper, sculpture and new media to explore different aspects of the religion. Co-curators involved in the exhibit were Cleveland State’s Center for Sacred Landmarks, Arts Collinwood, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Shambhala Meditation Group, Cleveland Zazen Group, ColdWater Zendo, Gallery Ü Cleveland, Insight Meditation of Cleveland, Jewel Heart Cleveland, Jijuyu-ji Zen Group of Cleveland, Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament, Thrive: An Artspace and West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church.