Below are the supplemental materials for the booklet Crafting the “People of Nature”
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About Place: Quilts from Vermont Museums
Burlington, VT — The Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont presents About Place: Quilts from Vermont Museums, on view from September 10 through December 7, 2024. About Place brings together a compelling array of historical and contemporary quilts from the Fleming’s collections, along with loans from the Shelburne Museum and Middlebury College Museum of …
Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts
Burlington, VT — The Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont presents Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts, on view from September 10 through December 7, 2024. Like many objects rooted in the everyday, quilts have the capacity to communicate stories about the context in which they were made and used. They represent …
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Let the Fabric Speak!
Burlington, VT — The Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, in partnership with the Howard Center Arts Collective, presents the exhibition Let the Fabric Speak! on view from September 3, 2024, through May 17, 2025. “This tapestry holds pieces of fabric and fibers, from my life and from my friends,” reads Eryn Sheehan’s artist …
Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections
February 6 – May 18, 2024 On a desk within the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, an old stuffed parrot guards a small library and a vast, yet obsolete ornithology collection. An excited young scientist reads a story on the origins of the desiccated animal to entertain a group of visitors: it may have been …
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Collections Rotations | Fall 2023
Over the course of the summer, the small but mighty Fleming team–composed of staff and interns–has made significant changes to the Museum’s Collections Gallery. These changes include improvements to the physical space of the galleries, and a complete reinstallation of art objects drawn from across the Fleming’s collections. Both of which aim to make the …
Art and the Matter of Place
September 5 – December 8, 2023 Art objects can illuminate many ways in which place matters to the human experience. Art can give visual form and material expression to human connection to place. So too art can reveal different ways that humans have and continue to imbue places with meaning. Grounded in these ideas, Art and …
PRAXIS: Recent Work by Studio Art Faculty at UVM
September 12 – December 8, 2023 Bridging the artist’s studio and the museum space, PRAXIS: Recent Work by Studio Art Faculty at UVM provides a unique opportunity for members of the university and local and regional communities to discover and explore the creative work of UVM’s current teaching artists. PRAXIS: Recent Work by Studio Art Faculty at UVM is …
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Land Marks: Paintings of Human-Altered Landscapes
Extended through May 18, 2024 Landscape painting came into prominence in the visual arts of this land, now called the United States, in the early 1800s. Over the course of the century, the genre–with European roots–gained favor in the U.S., especially in the Northeast and among white artists and collectors. Many such paintings hold special …
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Josef Albers | Formulation: Articulation
February 7 – May 20, 2023 The exhibition Formulation: Articulation is a chance to look at every color differently—through the lens of an artist’s teaching exercises that show how our perceptions of colors are affected by the environments in which they are viewed. In color studies like Homage to the Square, artist and educator Josef Albers (1888-1976) demonstrates …