MICHIGAN
The information below are past events for your state.
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State Univ. –art exhibit, tours of buildings and exhibit of archival materials and is currently visiting with other museums in the area to join them in this celebration.
Now thru August 24, 08 Michigan State University Museum Michigan History magazine article “Carving a living at Michigan State University” features the New Deal history of public art on the campus. located on the campus, has a New Deal exhibit entitled “The Federal Art Project: Supporting Good Artists in Bad Times” It features WPA from public works projects in Michigan and on the MSC campus during the 1930-40’s. Included is rustic furniture, skis, snowshoes, fishing creels and decorative arts utilizing traditional native materials and craft techniques. Miniature dolls dressed in detailed period costumes and a set of miniature pieces of historic furniture created by the MSC home economics students and barn models are also included along with a large relief map of the campus created in 1941 by WPA workers. The campus will also be giving new focus on the various sculptures throughout the campus done by FAP artists Samuel Cashwan and Leonard Jungwirth. Other works they did for the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing can be viewed in the exhibit and one done in limestone in 1933 by Jungwirth features a “Worker with a Shovel.”
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