Discovering Nature: Japanese Artwork from the Lewis & Bennett Collections Curator's Talk with Rachel Fugate
DATE: February 19, 1 pm
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Rachel Fugate discusses her curatorial research into the DeVos Art Museum's Japanese Collection. The talk focuses on the Lewis and Bennett collections, which are some of the earliest gifts to the University's art collection and form the bulk of the Museum's current Asian art collection. Discovering Nature uses nature to frame the Japanese artwork: showcasing landscapes, plants, animals, and other living creatures. Each piece highlights many ways Japanese artists responded to and represented nature in their works. The items on exhibit span the 19th and 20th centuries and represent both old and new practices in traditional arts and crafts.