Programs:
Gallery talk with guest curator Joanne Stuhr
Sep. 7, 2007, noon
Reception at which Pete Cecere will be present
Nov. 16, 2007, 7-9 p.m.
Brunch conversation:
Saturday, Nov. 17, 2007 9:30-11 a.m.
Pete Cecere, guest curator Joanne Stuhr, and museum director Marilyn A. Zeitlin meet with visitors to discuss contemporary impacts on Latin American Folk Art. Coffee and Danish served.
EVERYDAY MIRACLES :
Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection
Everyday Miracles: Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection presents objects that illuminate the secular and sacred and ways they intersect. The exhibition pays tribute to the life experience of the Latin American indigenous cultures from which these cultural traditions emerge.
In 2005, the ASU Art Museum received a donation of nearly 1,000 pieces of folk art from noted collector Peter P. Cecere. Cecere lives at the foot the Shenandoah Mountains, in the woods of western Virginia, in a pumpkin-colored house he designed for himself and 12,000 of his closed friends: his collection of folk art, most of it from Latin America.
To celebrate this generous gift, the ASU Art Museum has mounted an exhibition of approximately 60 pieces from Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela, Paraguay, El Salvador, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. The exhibition examines the interaction between secular and sacred – specifically the complex interplay between the realm of the ordinary and the realm of the divine – in Latin America. Through object and text, the exhibition looks at indigenous traditions that are interwoven with Christian influences that arrived with the conquistadors. It reflects popular piety and evidence of syncretism in folk practices. It includes art that is made for, or that depicts; ceremony, ritual and magic.
ASU Art Museum Presentation
The exhibition is guest curated by Joanne Stuhr and is installed in the ASU Art Museum at Arizona State University.
Duration
Everyday Miracles: Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection (July 14, 2007 – January 5, 2008) is open at the ASU Art Museum: Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Support
Support for this exhibition is provided by Friends of the ASU Art Museum.
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