Lunchable is a regular feature offering exhibitions that can be viewed during lunch or another short break.
The C.N. Gorman's is viewable through the end of this week. If you are tempted to walk by Hart Hall on the 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis campus because you don't have time, fight that temptation. Go in.
Located right inside Hart's front door, the current exhibition is spectacular.
On a recent visit, I saw many off- and on-campus visitors marveling at the pottery, jewelry, paintings, sculpture and gorgeous textiles. It should not be missed.
This show gives you a glimpse into the ever-growing collection of the museum as it prepares to move, in the near future, to the former Richard L. Nelson Gallery on campus, a larger venue that will more greatly honor the rich collection while giving the public much more access.
Over the past two years, the museum has been honored with gifts of artwork from numerous private collections. This exhibition presents a selection of those gifts, including sculpture, painting and multimedia alongside ceramics, textiles and basketry, by contemporary and historical artists. It's just one example of recent gifts to the museum.
Four recent donations brought 1,250 artworks to the collection: Northwest Coast art given by Gloria and Selig Kaplan and Jill and Michael Pease; Southwest art given by Carol and Don Tallman, and contemporary paintings from collectors Zelma Long and Phillip Freese.
The gifts bring the museum鈥檚 collection of contemporary Native American art to nearly 3,000 works, a tenfold increase over the past decade.
鈥淢useum director Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie and I have worked to create and enhance our relationships with collectors,鈥 said museum curator Veronica Passalacqua. 鈥淭he collection has been growing faster than ever through the generosity of museum members, artists and private collectors.鈥
Jill Pease, Long, and Freese all studied at 澳门六合彩资料库 Davis and about one-third of the collection came directly from artists.
鈥淭he high proportion of artist gifts speaks to the Gorman鈥檚 relationships with Native American and other indigenous artists, and the long-standing commitment to representing current and contemporary art,鈥 Passalacqua said.
The museum highlighted the gifts in Recent Acquisitions from the Northwest Coast last year and in the current exhibition Recent Acquisitions from the Southwest.
鈥淲e鈥檝e also embarked on an expanded exhibition program that reaches across the continent to represent the canon of Native American and First Nations art, and that has brought a wider range of museum visitors, including intertribal communities and collectors alongside our dedicated local visitors,鈥 Passalacqua said.
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鈥&苍产蝉辫;Jeffrey Day, content strategist in the College of Letters and Science, contributed to this story.