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In March 2012, Lilian will attend the premiere of the documentary Return to Byzantium: The Art and Life of Lilian Broca which takes place at the Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa.

In February 2012, Lilian will attend the SAMA (Society of American Mosaic Artists) Conference in Lexington, Kentucky

In November 2011, Lilian gave a PowerPoint presentation at the book launch and reception of the book The Hidden and the Revealed: The Queen Esther Mosaics of Lilian Broca, Gefen Publishing House Ltd. Read more...

In February 2011, Lilian attended the SAMA (Society of American Mosaic Artists) Conference in Austin, Texas.

In December 2010, the art book Tiffany Studios Techniques Inspiration for Today's Artists by Edith Crouch, Schiffer Publishing Ltd. was released in the USA and Canada. The book features Lilian Broca as one of the contemporary mosaic artists.


In November 2010, the art book Mosaic Fine Arts Portraits was released in the USA. Lilian Broca is one of the five contemporary mosaic artists featured in this publication.

In October 2010 Lilian attended and gave a PowerPoint Presentation, "Return to Byzantium", at the AIMC (International Association of Contemporary Mosaicists) Congress in Athens.

In September 2010 Lilian worked with renowned mosaicist, teacher and mosaic restorer, Luciana Notturni in Ravenna, Italy. There, under Luciana's supervision she redid one of Queen Esther's portraits from the finished Queen Esther Series which had been executed in a contemporary style several years earlier; this time Lilian used the true Byzantine method of inserting the glass and marble tesserae directly in wet lime mortar before finalizing it into thinset cement.

Also in September 2010, as part of the preparation for the "Return to Byzantium" lecture in Athens, Lilian returned to Bucharest, Romania, her place of birth, after 52 years of absence, where she met and discussed her art with celebrated Romanian Art Critic Pavel Susara, as well as with Mother Atanasia (Dr. Adela Vaetisi) from the Stavropoleos Monastery, the author of The Art of Byzantine Tradition in Romania.





 
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BOOK LAUNCH & RECEPTION
Lilian Broca, Sheila Campbell and Yosef Wosk


The Hidden and the Revealed:
The Queen Esther Mosaics of
Lilian Broca

Gefen Publishing House Ltd.
with an introduction by celebrated American artist Judy Chicago
Sun, Nov 27 - 8:00 pm FREE

Seven years in the making, The Esther Mosaics contribute to the vital historic task of what the biblical scholar Naomi Graetz called for in S/He Created Them: Feminist Retelling of Biblical Tales: ‘...to put women voices back where they should have been in the first place.’” - Judy Chicago

Lavishly illustrated, The Hidden and the Revealed, captures the shimmering brilliance of artist Lilian Broca’s monumental Queen Esther Mosaic Series. Created in classical Byzantine style but with contemporary sensibility, Broca’s mosaics give life to the complex personality of Esther who rose from shy obscurity to become her people’s saviour.

Archaeologist, art historian, and curator Sheila Campbell has published widely on ancient and contemporary mosaics and Byzantine art. A Professor Emerita at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, she has curated many exhibitions, including a showcase of the Scuola di Mosaici (Friuli, Italy) at the Royal Ontario Museum.

Scholar, rabbi and SFU professor, Yosef Wosk, took inspiration from Broca’s mosaics to create a lyrical prose-poem in the voice of Esther. The prose is accompanied by notes illuminating Wosk’s extensive investigation of biblical and mythological aspects of the Esther story.

Linda Coe (designer), a graduate of the Vancouver School of Art, has worked as a graphic designer for over thirty years and has taught design courses at Emily Carr University and UBC.


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