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Art History Virtual Exhibition

20th-century Andean-Mestizo Textile with Chimú or Moche Motifs: Researched and Conserved by Alyssa Cartier

February, 2023 by Malena Hemenway

Contemporary Peruvian textile artists are predominantly of mixed Andean and Spanish ancestry, and they illustrate a mastery of their craft that draws strongly upon this Andean-Mestizo heritage. Fine textiles served as symbols of wealth and socioeconomic status among Pre-Columbian Andean cultures because of the fine fabrics, their elaborate weaving techniques, and their … [Read more...] about 20th-century Andean-Mestizo Textile with Chimú or Moche Motifs: Researched and Conserved by Alyssa Cartier

Filed Under: 2021 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: 20th century, andean mestizo culture, andean textiles, backstrap loom, camelid fur, chimu culture, Moche culture, peru, textile, tourist trade art, woven textile

Native American Beaded Frame: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Kylei Giles

February, 2023 by Malena Hemenway

The Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee Nation, is a confederacy of six nations: The Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. Female artists from all of these nations created elaborate beadwork, but this frame was most likely produced by the Mohawk, who produced beadwork on purple velvet and using these colors, motifs, and the looping, raised beadwork technique shown on … [Read more...] about Native American Beaded Frame: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Kylei Giles

Filed Under: 2021 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: beading, beadwork, haudenosaunee nation, iroquois culture, native american art, seed beads, tourist trade art, victorian era

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

Mesoamerican Dolls: Researched by Ngozi Ekeke

October, 2020 by Sarah Teel

Dolls are popular tourist-trade items throughout Mexico and northern Central America.  The styles of the dolls have changed over the decades, with some adopting a more generic or international “stuffed toy” form; the dolls continue, however, to be adorned with traditional dress, and this has provided a valuable record of changes in these traditions over time.  Some dolls are … [Read more...] about Mesoamerican Dolls: Researched by Ngozi Ekeke

Filed Under: 2017 Spring, ART 485: Art of Mesoamerica Tagged With: 20th century art, early 21st century art, late 20th century, maya dolls, maya mestizo culture, otomi doll, otomi mestizo culture, tourist trade art, zapotec dolls, zapotec mestizo culture

Mukudj Tourist-Trade Mask and Kifwebe Mask: Researched and Conserved by Caitlin Baker

March, 2016 by Codee Ratliff

BEFORE CONSERVATION       AFTER CONSERVATION     Mukudj Mask Traditional Punu culture Mukudj masks are worn in rituals to represent the ideal female and to represent deceased ancestors.  The masks usually have white or light-colored faces, full red lips, slit eyes, arched eyebrows, and three distinctive scarification marks … [Read more...] about Mukudj Tourist-Trade Mask and Kifwebe Mask: Researched and Conserved by Caitlin Baker

Filed Under: 2014 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: 20th century art, african art, kifwebe mask, luba culture, mukudj mask, punu culture, tourist trade art

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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
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