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How We Worked, Played, and Prayed: An Exhibition of Southern Folk Art
April 17 – July 13, 2012 Opening Reception: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Part of the Oxford Art Crawl Curated by Mattie Codling, a junior at Ole Miss completing a professional internship at the UM Museum, this exhibit highlights the work of several well-known and not-so-well-known folk artists or “self-taught” artists [...]
Sanctuary: The Exhibition
Photography by Stephen Kirkpatrick March 20 – June 9, 2012 Opening Reception: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. Part of the Oxford Art Crawl The UM Museum presents an exhibition of photography by acclaimed wildlife photographer, Stephen Kirkpatrick, based on his award-winning book, Sanctuary: Mississippi’s Coastal Plain. Released in November 2010, Sanctuary focuses on [...]
On the Silk Road and the High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce
January 24 – August 4, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 2012, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Since the second century BCE, the so-called “Silk Road” stretched for thousands of miles from eastern China to the Black Sea, thus linking the great civilizations of east Asia with those of southwest Asia and, thereby, to Europe. [...]
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