Curatorial Practices Exhibition – In Our Nature: Dialogue between Humans and the Environment

Curatorial Practices Exhibition – In Our Nature: Dialogue between Humans and the Environment

Students in Susan J. Bandes’ Curatorial Practices course at Michigan State University will be presenting In Our Nature: Dialogues Between Humans. This exhibition is collaboratively curated by the students and runs April 20, 2018 – May 12, 2018. The opening reception will be Friday, April 20, 2018 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm in the Second Floor Union Gallery on the MSU Campus. Opening remarks will be at 6:30 pm. The Union Gallery is open Monday‐Thursday, noon‐5 p.m; Friday, noon‐ 7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.‐2 p.m. The exhibition features art and artifacts from the Broad Art Museum and the MSU Museum collections dating from the late 19th century to present day and from a variety of cultures. They are used to explore the varied ways that art and artifacts tell stories of the human impact on the environment over time and across the globe. In celebratory and reflective examples, the evolving relationships will be explored. Images may reflect the sacred or the secular, the mundane or the extraordinary.