Sentences with phrase «exploring material culture»

His ongoing interest in exploring material culture from an archaeological perspective, particularly the multilayered nature of objects, reflecting on the relationship we, as human beings, establish with the objects we create, use, and discard.

Adrian Esparza (El Paso): Adrian Esparza explores material culture by «re-instilling lost value in found objects.»

from these discarded pieces they create vivid pieces which explore material culture in contemporary society.

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As the following chapters demonstrate, the practice and advice changes over the years; the science becomes more refined and findings shift; and corporate capitalism continually explores and shapes the material culture of infant feeding, uncovering and instilling in parents previously unknown desires and needs.

At the moment DoD is exploring whether other materials — urine, throat cultures, blood clots — or perhaps new technologies could enhance their repository.

The free - to - access lesson plans, student worksheets and digital libraries celebrate the success of Indigenous land management programs, while providing teachers with classroom - ready material that helps students explore our shared histories, cultures and achievements.

Content: The Met site offers a wealth of beautifully designed, entertaining, high - quality materials to help kids explore art, history and culture.

Site Review: Metropolitan Museum of Art The Met site offers a wealth of beautifully designed, entertaining, high - quality materials to help kids explore art, history and culture.

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

Drawing on rich ethnographic material from Caracas» shantytowns, state institutions, as well as everyday life and public culture, Strønen explores the complexities and challenges in fostering deep social and political change.

Blending the personal with the political, McMillian has worked in a range of mediums and materials, including sculpture, painting, video, performance, and immersive environments, to explore themes of class, gender, race, social history, and culture.

Firelei Baez blends an array of techniques and materials to explore culture and femininity.

This allowed Artschwager's unique objects to explore our own material culture and conceptually play with a sense of the uncanny within our perception of objecthood.

After all, the last couple of years have seen three major exhibitions in London art museums that have focused on architecture («Sensing Spaces» at the RA, «Ruin Lust» at Tate Britain, «Constructing Worlds» at the Barbican), and smaller shows regularly claim some sort of interrogative capacity for exploring the interaction between these two broad categories of material culture.

The main thrust of the new displays will be to explore a society that in terms of material culture was marked by the creation of well - made and elegant objects for a general public, as the curators put it, allowing for the «democratisation of luxury».

/ / Susanne M. Winterling (born and living in Rehau and Berlin, Germany) works across a range of media to explore the sentient economy, digital cultures and the social life of materials in the environment.

We will explore Alma Thomas's circular paintings as well as examples of Mandalas from different cultures, then make circular mosaics using dried beans and other materials — a little bit of glitz — inside CD cases as a frame.

Composed of works from the museum's collection made since 2000, including several recent acquisitions and works on view for the first time, the exhibition explores the prevailing correlations between the personal, the intimate, and the individual; constructions of identity, history, and culture; the instability of materials; and strategies to rediscover or recover the past.

Creating works from synthetic materials such as resin, neon and rubber and reworking ubiquitous matter such as glass, plexiglass, wood, sand and metal, Webb often parodies modernism to wry and poetic results - referencing consumer culture and making use of the solid and the open and the soft and rigid to explore new sculptural possibilities.

Founded in 1979 New York City - based artist collaborative Group Material created over fifty exhibitions and public projects in the U.S. and Europe exploring the interrelations of aesthetics, culture and politics.

Fervently working at the intersection of art and material culture, the featured artists explore how to value the materials around us and shape our lives and livelihoods through our own making.

Informed by the international history of video art, the program traces the development of the medium in Israel and explores how artists have employed technology and material to examine the sociopolitical status quo, through themes such as the prominence of political conflict in mass media; the liberalization of the economy; and the impact of free market politics on Israeli culture.

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College presents Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science, an exhibition of contemporary and historical art, artifacts, and material culture exploring the human desire to use and create pattern to understand the world around us.

The Towner Gallery's new show explores how popular culture, and its vast compendium of imagery, words and materials has influenced recent contemporary art.

Crucial for the artworks explored, the source materials of consumer culture and popular entertainment are also illustrated and Collins shows how they were used by artists to make their works.

Incorporating layers of material and process in the mixed - media work Landscape Majestic (2010), New York — based artist Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971) creates a lush landscape recalling influences from the Hudson River School to Édouard Manet as she explores traditional and pop culture aspects of beauty.

Her large paintings explore alternative topographies through integrating material remnants of contemporary life and culture at and around Wave Hill.

There are five areas of deep focus within the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros: modernist geometric abstraction from Latin America; artworks and documentation of traveler artists who explored and worked in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries; ethnographic objects from and documentation of twelve of the indigenous tribes from the Orinoco river basin in Venezuela's state of Amazonas; material culture from Latin America's colonial era; and contemporary art from Latin America and beyond.

Lauren Adams (Baltimore, MD) Lauren Adams creates artwork that explores the histories of power, labor, and material culture to make connections that resonate with current sociopolitical issues.

Exploring the painful history of American race relations through large - scale silhouette installations, Walker's work transforms historical materials, literary sources and popular culture, challenging us to access buried emotions about our nation's past.

Using systematically collected material from his urban neighborhood, Nari Ward creates dramatic sculptural installations that explore issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.

A consummate and prolific collector himself — of art, books and popular ephemera — Prince's work has continued to explore concepts of authorship and ownership in relation to the consumer materials of contemporary culture.

Often using appropriation, he creatively re-uses existing physical and digital materials to create works that oftentimes explore the relationship between technology and culture.

Our aims were to commission new work by some of the best contemporary British artists, to encourage a culture of collecting by selling our editions as inexpensively as possible; and to provide opportunities for artists to explore new materials and processes.

The interdisciplinary nature (the «infinite mix») of the works in this exhibition celebrates a culture in which artists are restlessly exploring the possibilities of new technologies, mixing materials and crossing genres.

Featuring established and emerging international artists from around the globe, the 14th edition of the Sharjah Biennial (SB14), Leaving the Echo Chamber, explores the possibilities and purpose of producing art when history is increasingly fictionalised, when ideas of «society» are invariably displaced, when borders and beliefs are under constant renegotiation and our material culture is under the constant threat of human destruction and climate degradation.

By combining references to art history with modern surfaces and materials, she explores fine art aesthetics within the design of daily life, especially the way it has been appropriated by consumer culture.

If the material culture denoted by Unswept Floors explores the ego - driven manifestation of our identity, then Tabula Rasa offers a kind of redemption.

Deeply invested in the process of image - making, Paul Sietsema's layered, self - reflective work explores how imagery and material affect society's understanding of culture and -LSB-...]

Inspired by Taiwanese indigenous culture, Kamaro'an explores natural materials and delicate indigenous craftsmanship through contemporary designs.

The project focuses on the creation of Anishinaabe stock art and icons, which promotes visual sovereignty by exploring Anishinaabe visuals and material culture such as petroglyphs, floral beadwork, and Birch bark pictographs.

In her distinguished career the painter Ellen Lanyon has explored a range of visual imagery, from the exotic manifestations of the natural world to material culture: objects such as antique tools or kitchen equipment, somehow bridging the distance between categories through evocative titles and scrupulous examination of form.

Her research explores turn - of - the - century vernacular photography and the material culture of memory in the United States.

Deeply invested in the process of image - making, Paul Sietsema's layered, self - reflective work explores how imagery and material affect society's understanding of culture and history.

His work explores consumer culture and how we repurpose the material world, both natural and artificial, via sculptures and collages created with found objects and the detritus of his everyday life — shopping receipts, ticket stubs, stray plastic bags, leftover hotel shampoo bottles as well as natural elements he finds outdoors, like marble and stones.

Black Women / Black Lives explores the symbolic and narrative portrayal of Black women in art and material culture inspired by Civil Rights and Black liberation movements of the 1960s through our own 21st century moment.

Framing Fraktur explores the relationship between manuscript - based folk art created by German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania beginning in the 17th century, and the work of seven contemporary artists presented through two simultaneous exhibitions: «Word & Image: Contemporary Artists Connect to fraktur,» based in the work of contemporary artists, and «Quill & Brush: Pennsylvania German Fraktur and Material Culture,» based in historic works.

By exploring the fringes of high art and pop culture, Reyle creates often visually spectacular works that simultaneously confront us with a conceptual nihilism, at times incorporating everyday material such as fluorescent paint, neon light, silver Mylar and effect lacquer, most of which are usually considered as suspect in the art world.

Alongside these new paintings, visitors will be invited to participate in a museum - style «learning zone» where numerous resources and materials will be available for visitors to further explore the works that were visited during the workshops and the wider representation of black British artists within the UK's visual arts culture.

Spanning eight weeks, this presentation by NTU CCA Singapore's Young Professional Trainees takes the form of an ongoing experiment to explore the potential of these files as a tool for research and education, inviting the public to engage with materials for research, creation, and commentary about subjects such as culture, identity, and alternate realities.