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The Museum is currently displaying an egungun costume from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. The costume is used during the annual or biennial egungun ceremony and during funeral rites. The costume is believed to be inhabited by a spirit during the masquerade performance and the wearer may mediate between the world of the living and dead in judicial and tribal matters. The costume is richly decorated and its appearance displays the wealth and status of the family who commissioned the costume.
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29740
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The Museum’s newest affiliate members group, the Friends of Photography, funded the recent acquisition of five new photographs for the Museum’s permanent collection. The new works include two photographs by Seydou Keita of Bamako, Mali and three by Deborah Luster or New Orleans. Four of the photographs are pictured and the artists and their work is detailed.
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29645
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In the new exhibit Far From Home, the idea of disorientation and opportunity play a large role. The exhibition features works of modern art which focus on the idea of home. This idea of home could center on a family dwelling, geographic location, or culture and the complicated sense of origin and belonging our modern world has created.
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29698
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In the new exhibit Far From Home, the idea of disorientation and opportunity play a large role. The exhibition features works of modern art which focus on the idea of home. This idea of home could center on a family dwelling, geographic location, or culture and the complicated sense of origin and belonging our modern world has created.
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29623
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The exhibition Far from Home features work by artists of diverse national, cultural, and spiritual backgrounds. The exhibit also includes works of art that address the displacement of people and populations in the global community as they relocate for economic, political, education, or familial reasons. All of the artists featured have relocated and their art often reflects this event and the distance they feel from their homes. The exhibit explores how being displaced affects creativity and one’s identity.
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29699
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Kathleen Turczyn, a former statistician, is now a renowned oil painter in Burnsville, North Carolina. Her current works vary in size, style and subject matter, including portraits of people, landscapes and animals.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 13 Issue 12, December 2016,
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29736
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The BIG Picture is a new photography exhibition that showcases work on loan from Allen G. Thomas, Jr., Dr. Carlos Garcia-Velez, and the Museum’s expanding photography collection. Previewing the collection, the work of photographers Lorna Simpson, North Carolina’s elin o’Hara slavick, Anthony Goicolea, and Chris Jordan are featured. Their work looks at the role personal and cultural identity plays in our everyday lives. The style, composition, and criticism of 6 works from the 4 artists are detailed.
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