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May 23, 2013
LECTURE

Thinking Globally: Exploring the MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian Art Collection

7 – 8 p.m.
Pillsbury Auditorium

Presenter: Risha Lee, the MIA's Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. The MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian art collection contains many gems of art, produced in a variety of times and places. In an introduction to the collecti...
Exhibition

Cheryl Ann Thomas
Born c. 1944
Vessel 80, 2007
Porcelain
The David and Ruth Waterbury Endowment for Contemporary Craft 2008.16

Basins, Baskets, and Bowls: Women Explore the Vessel

Saturday, May 22, 2010—Sunday, October 23, 2011
Galleries 277, 278, 279
Free Exhibition

This exhibition brings together works by modern and contemporary female artists who exhibit innovative approaches to the vessel. The department of Decorative Arts, Textiles, and Sculpture conceived "Basins, Baskets, and Bowls" around a group of significant recent acquisitions in ceramic, fiber, and wood. Artists include fiber artist Mary Giles, ceramic artist Cheryl Ann Thomas, wood artist Addie Draper, and modern masters such as Laura Andreson and Beatrice Wood, selected from the MIA's collection and on loan from private collections.