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SUMMARY:MSU MUSEUM GUIDED GALLERY TOUR
DESCRIPTION:
 Visit the Michigan State University Museum for 
 a gallery tour of "Unpacking Collections: The 
 Legacy of Cuesta Benberry An African American 
 Quilt Scholar."  Exhibition assistant Kaitlyn 
 Osborn, an MSU Anthropology major, is leading 
 the tour as part an internship concentrating 
 on the Benberry collection.\n
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 Michigan 
 State University Museum premiered the textile 
 collections of the late Cuesta Benberry, one 
 of the twentieth-century's pioneers of research 
 on American quiltmaking and the forerunner 
 of research on African American quiltmaking. 
  Benberry had a long association with the MSU 
 Museum, the home of the Great Lakes Quilt 
 Center, and when she passed away in 2007, her 
 family gave the Michigan State University Museum 
 her collection of African and African American 
 quilts and her quilt history. Then in 
 2009, the American Folk Art Museum in New York 
 City transferred its Benberry collections to 
 the MSU Museum so that the bulk of her work 
 could be in one place where it could be more 
 effectively accessed for research and educational 
 uses.\n
 Over the past year, MSU Museum staff, 
 students like Osborn and volunteers have 
 been "unpacking" -- sorting through, cataloging, 
 and rehousing Benberry's collection.\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: MSU Museum\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://msu.edu/msumuseum/\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-2370\n
 Contact email: pr@museum.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://museum.msu.edu/Exhibitions/Current/TheLegacyofCuestaBenberry.html\n
LOCATION:MSU Museum - Heritage Gallery
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