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Something Else to See
Improvisational Bordering Styles in African-American Quilts
Saturday, February 1 - Saturday, June 7, 1997
The quilts in this exhibition are from the collection of Eli Leon. They were made by twenty-one African-American women who grew up in the South, and represent a special genre of African-American quilts Leon calls "Afro-traditional." The exhibition focuses on the borders of these quilts, which differ from the standard American tradition because they don't employ four-sided symmetry. MORE…
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Marcy Hermansader
Photographs Dreaming
Saturday, February 1 - Friday, March 14, 1997
This one-person exhibition includes 28 mixed-media works that have been selected from an ongoing series that Hermansader began in 1993. In these works, Hermansader integrates "real-photo" postcards from the early 20th century with drawings inspired by her own experiences, feelings or memories. MORE…
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What's Trump?
Trump Indicators from the Collection of Joan Schepps
Saturday, February 1 - Friday, March 14, 1997
Joan Schepps has amassed perhaps the largest collection of trump indicators in the world, a collection which has been written about extensively in antiques and bridge newspapers and magazines, and was the subject of Personal FX, a nationally televised program on collections and collectibles. The trump indicators in this exhibition offer a view of the social history of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. MORE…
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The Thin Veneer
The Peoples of Bosnia and Their Disappearing Cultural Heritage
Saturday, April 12 - Saturday, June 7, 1997
This selection of photographs, books, maps, graphic materials and original art work shows the multicultural heritage of traditional Bosnia and its subsequent destruction during the latest period of civil strife. Due to the growing climate of ethnic intolerance in Bosnia, this exhibition was created as a way of demonstrating a broader view of that country's history. MORE…
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The Lois Beurman Torf Print Collection
Saturday, September 6 - Friday, October 17, 1997
This exhibition features over 50 prints given to the University Collection by internationally regarded print collector and UMass alumna Lois Beurman Torf ('46). This collection offers a survey of contemporary graphic art from the decades of the 1970s and 1980s MORE…
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Seven by Six
7 Works by 6 Artists
Saturday, September 6 - Friday, October 17, 1997
This exhibition features the work of Mel Bochner, Bryan Hunt, Sol LeWitt, Syliva Plimack Mangold, Michael Mazur and Robert Morris. MORE…
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Heroic Painting
Saturday, November 1 - Sunday, December 14, 1997
This exhibition features the work of Bo Bartlett, Vincent Desiderio, Walton Ford, Lawrence Gipe, Julie Heffernan, Komar and Melamid and Mark Tansey. Heroic Painting was organized by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. MORE…
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