Heaven, Hell, Pilgrims & Stolen Relics: The Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy

In March 2025, Jane Weissman traveled to Conques, France to visit the Romanesque Abbey Church of Sainte Foy and to examine its extraordinary Last Judgement above the western portal.  She found its politics — historical, religious and artistic — to be as fascinating and complicated as such politics are today. Join us at the Montauk Library  and be amazed and amused to learn about Jane’s four-day adventure studying the church, walking two sections of the chemin and, by fortunate chance, taking her dinners with monks and pilgrims in the abbey.  Jane Weissman is the director of the community mural collective, Artmakers Inc. and co-author of the cultural history On the Wall: Four Decades of Community Murals in New York City.  She curated exhibitions Images of the African Diaspora in New York City Community Murals and La Lucha Continua The Struggle Continues: 1985 & 2017.  She is a frequent lecturer throughout the USA and abroad.