Fall 2025 Exhibitions Overview
Release date: Oct. 6, 2025
On Sept. 6, 2025, MOCRA presented an overview of its fall semester exhibitions. MOCRA Director David Brinker spoke about Legacy: Selections from the Gerald R. and Mary Reid Brunstrom Gift of Art from Australia, featuring work by Robyn Daw, Ian Friend, Karen Papacek, and Jörg Schmeisser. Then, Brinker was joined by co-curator Al Miner to talk about To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home, featuring work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly and Tyler Rai.
55-minute-video of the fall exhibition overview.
Related Exhibitions
To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home
Legacy: Selections from the Gerald R. and Mary Reid Brunstrom Gift of Art from Australia
Credits
Producer: David Brinker
Videography and editing: Matt Peterson
Presenters

Al Miner is an award-winning curator, educator and museum administrator based in Washington, D.C. Miner is deputy director for museum experience and digital media at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He previously served as founding director and chief curator of Georgetown University’s art galleries, where he was also associate professor of graduate museum studies. Miner has also held curatorial roles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He has authored three books and organized dozens of exhibitions, which have been reviewed widely in publications including The New York Times. Miner has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Alliance of Museums and other organizations.

David Brinker is director of the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) at Saint Louis University. First volunteering at the museum as an undergraduate student, then joining the staff in 1995, Brinker has been deeply involved in every aspect of the museum’s operations and growth. He assumed the role of Director in 2019. He has overseen important initiatives such as the MOCRA Voices podcast, and curated or co-curated numerous MOCRA exhibitions.