Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work with precious ancient artworks to create a museum exhibition?
On Thursday, Oct. 22 at noon, UCLA Fowler Museum curator Julia Burtenshaw will give a lunchtime “Culture Fix” talk about the challenges of working with ceramic and gold objects dating from Colombia’s Sinu Period (800-1500 A.D.) and using primary sources to create “Encountering Ancient Colombia — A Journey through the Magdalena Valley.”
The Fowler exhibition draws from the Muñoz-Kramer Collection of ancient Colombian ceramics of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The objects — many of them never before exhibited — are interpreted using explicitly archaeological, ethnographic and historical sources to question our knowledge of ancient ceramics and to illustrate the rich culture and astonishing world of pre-colonial Colombia about which so little is still known. The exhibition, which runs through Jan. 3, 2015, complements LACMA’s "Ancient Colombia: A Journey Through the Cauca Valley" exhibition.
Burtenshaw’s talk is free, as is admission to the museum. For information on these and other events at the Fowler Museum, visit the Fowler's calendar here.
