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CATEGORIES:Exhibits (Museum, Gardens, ...)
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SUMMARY:Reception for Mali On Our Minds & Vivarium: The Glass Houses of Flora + Fauna
DESCRIPTION:
 On Sunday, September 8, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the 
 Residential College in the Arts and Humanities 
 LookOut! Art Gallery on the second floor 
 of Snyder-Phillips Hall, join the RCAH in celebrating 
 two current exhibits: Mali On Our Minds 
 and Vivarium: The Glass Houses of Flora + 
 Fauna.\n
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 Light refreshments will be served.\n
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 About 
 Mali On Our Minds:\n
 At a time when 
 Malians have been threatened by separatists and 
 fundamentalist Islamic incursions in the wake 
 of the 2012 military coup that toppled their 
 20-year-old democracy, the RCAH honors the 
 rich, living traditions of visual art that 
 continue to invigorate and inspire Malians, providing 
 lifelines to a better future. With attacks 
 now staunched by a French-led counter-insurgency 
 force, this summer will bring new 
 democratic elections and the beginning of a process 
 to reintegrate contending political parties 
 and ethnic groups through a national Commission 
 for Dialogue and Reconciliation.\n
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 This exhibition is especially rich in examples 
 of Malian textiles, including bogolan (mud-cloth) 
 and mass-produced cotton prints. It provides 
 an overview of the multiple arenas of 
 Malian fabric production: traditional techniques, 
 commercial and touristic production, and 
 new approaches to fiber design created by contemporary 
 Malian artists.\n
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 Three-dimensional 
 works, mostly created with wood, include masks, 
 door locks (examples of traditional Dogon 
 culture), and characteristic Malian CiWara 
 antelope carvings.\n
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 Malian photographer Tijani 
 Sitou and American photographer Alexandra 
 Huddleston provide contextual insight through 
 their photos.\n
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 The exhibition is curated 
 by Chris Worland; her loans are supplemented 
 by works lent by the MSU Museum and by RCAH 
 faculty and students.\n
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 About Vivarium: The 
 Glass Houses of Flora + Fauna:\n
 Michelle Word 
 is an artist devoted to collecting. Largely 
 composed of handmade and manufactured found materials, 
 her collage + installation work explores 
 contrasts such as gestural and controlled, 
 familiar and unknown, material and illusion, 
 natural and artificial. Vivarium:  The Glass 
 Houses of Flora + Fauna examines our increasing 
 artificial relationship to nature by considering 
 the ways we adorn or homes and spaces 
 with nature inspired crafts, patterns, flower 
 arrangements, and manicured landscapes.\n\n
 Price: Free\n
 Sponsor: Residential College in the Arts and Humanities\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://rcah.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Katie Wittenauer\n
 Contact phone: (517) 884-6290\n
 Contact email: wittenau@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://rcah.msu.edu/news-events/events/reception-mali-our-minds-vivarium-glass-houses-flora-fauna\n
LOCATION:LookOut! Art Gallery in Snyder-Phillips Hall
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