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July Issue 2009
Mint Museum
of Art in Charlotte, NC, Offers Native American Art Collection
Billie Ruth Sudduth ---------------------------------------
Lonnie Vigil
The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC, will present the exhibit, Passionate Journey: The Grice Collection of Native American Art, on view July 18 through Oct. 17, 2009.
The depth and breadth of modern Native American art is featured in this exhibition. From Alaska to Guatemala, the exhibition highlights personal expressions in ceramics, basketry, textiles and performance masks. These distinctive works are the outward expressions of personal and religious ideologies, commentaries on social and political conditions, and the material manifestation of cultural survival.
Nelson and Gretchen
Grice have been supporting The Mint Museum for many years through
donations of Native American artworks. The Grice collection features
contemporary Native American pottery primarily from the Southwest;
Native American basketry from the Southwest to Alaska; modern
Maya textiles from Guatemala and Mexico; and performance masks
from West Mexico.
Nicholas Ortiz Estrado
The exhibition is accompanied by a full-color catalogue documenting the artistic traditions presented in the Grice collection. The book's chapters discuss each artistic tradition and place the works within the broader cultural context in which the artworks were created.
The Mint Museum is one institution with two dynamic locations. Established in 1936 as North Carolina's first art museum, the Mint Museum of Art houses collections of Art of the Ancient Americas, American art, Contemporary art, Historic Costume & Fashionable Dress, and Ceramics. Opened in 1999, the Mint Museum of Craft + Design displays national and international Contemporary Crafts made of ceramics, metal, wood, glass and fiber.
The Mint Museum is involved in a major expansion project: the construction of a new 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte and the reinstallation of the historic Mint Museum of Art. Scheduled for completion in 2010, the new facility will house collections of American art, Contemporary art and Craft + Design. Following the opening of the new location, collections at the Mint Museum of Art will be reinstalled and feature collections in Ceramics, Art of the Ancient Americas, and Historic Costumes & Fashionable Dress.
The Mint Museum is funded, in part, with operating support by the Arts & Science Council, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc.; the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts; the City of Charlotte; and its members.
For further info
check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at
704/337-2000 or visit (www.mintmuseum.org.
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