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Art History Virtual Exhibition

Union Campground Cemetery Gravestones: Researched, Conserved, Reconstructed, and Reset by Jordan Davis and Sharlee Gunther

February, 2023 by Malena Hemenway

The Union Campground Cemetery was established in 1840, and the graves in this integrated cemetery include people from all levels of wealth and status. Slaves and the poor marked their family graves here with rough fieldstones and sometimes with molded concrete grave markers, while people of more wealth erected monuments of local limestone and sandstone that were carved in … [Read more...] about Union Campground Cemetery Gravestones: Researched, Conserved, Reconstructed, and Reset by Jordan Davis and Sharlee Gunther

Filed Under: 2021 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: 19th century, conservation, footstone, gravestone, gravestones, headstone, union campground cemetery

20th-century Guna Culture Molas from Panama by: Kylei Giles, Brianna Shatto, and Melissa Payte

January, 2023 by Alyssa L. Cartier

  The colorful textiles featured in this exhibit are known as molas, which are artworks designed and produced by female artists of the Guna culture (also known as the Cuna or Kuna culture) of Panama. A mola is a rectangular panel of cloth that is decorated using a reverse appliqué technique: Two to six layers of different-colored fabric are stacked one on top of the … [Read more...] about 20th-century Guna Culture Molas from Panama by: Kylei Giles, Brianna Shatto, and Melissa Payte

Filed Under: 2020 Fall, ART 487: Art of the Americas Tagged With: 19th century, birds, cat, chickens, Cuna culture, fish, frog, Guna Culture, kuna culture, mola, panama, reverse applique, textile, tourist trade art, turtles

Regalia of the Great Plains Nations: Researched by Macaylah Gant Hodge

September, 2020 by Sarah Teel

The Native peoples of the Great Plains consist of a variety of cultures who adopted a similar lifestyle that enabled them to survive in this relatively harsh region.  These peoples based their subsistence upon the great bison herds, depending on them for food, clothing, and shelter; following these herds required the Great Plains peoples to adopt a nomadic existence with few … [Read more...] about Regalia of the Great Plains Nations: Researched by Macaylah Gant Hodge

Filed Under: 2016 Fall, ART 385: Art of the Americas Tagged With: 19th century, 20th century, beadwork, cheyenne culture, comanche culture, cowrie shells, crow culture, Great Plains Cultures, headdress, knife sheath, lakota culture, lakota sioux cultures, leatherwork, men's leggings, moccasins, native american art, Sioux Culture, tobacco bag

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  • 2014 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2014 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica
  • 2015 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2016 Fall, ART 385: Art of the Americas
  • 2017 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2017 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica
  • 2018 Fall, ART 385: Art of the Americas
  • 2019 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2019 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica
  • 2020 Fall, ART 487: Art of the Americas
  • 2021 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • 2021 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica
  • 2022 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
  • Art History Virtual Exhibit

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