Members Preview Lecture “Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia”
Calima, Colombia, Basket-Carrier (“Canastero”) with Incised Body Ornamentation (detail), 1000 BC–100 AD, ceramic, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer and Camilla Chandler Frost. Photograph © Museum Associates/LACMA
Calima, Colombia, Basket-Carrier (“Canastero”) with Incised Body Ornamentation, 1000 BC–100 AD, ceramic, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Muñoz Kramer Collection, gift of Stephen and Claudia Muñoz-Kramer and Camilla Chandler Frost. Photograph © Museum Associates/LACMA
Members Preview Curatorial Lecture | Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia
MFAH members are invited to an exclusive lecture about Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia.
Rex Koontz, consulting curator for art of the Indigenous Americas, offers an overview of this exhibition comprising a diversity of ancient textiles, gold objects, and ceramic figures. Golden Worlds looks at ancient Colombian art in a new way, opening a cultural dialogue that spans space and time.
Plan Your Visit The lecture takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building, and the exhibition is on the upper level. The nearest Museum entries are through the Beck Building and Kinder Building.
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Learning and Interpretation programs receive generous funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services; Samuel H. Kress Foundation; The Brown Foundation, Inc.; Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Houston Junior Woman’s Club; Sharon G. Dies; Sterling-Turner Foundation; Susan Vaughan Foundation; and additional generous donors.
“Golden Worlds: The Portable Universe of Indigenous Colombia” was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museo del Oro y Unidad de Artes y Otras Colecciones-Banco de la República, Colombia.
This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Major support is provided by:
The Glassell Family Foundation
Generous support is provided by:
The Favrot Fund