Box It Up!
The common, everyday box is given its due in a new exhibit at the Mathers
Museum of World Cultures. In Box It Up! boxes from Mexico,
Pakistan, Brazil, Tibet, Peru, England, and Sierra Leone are featured.
The exhibit, curated by Kayla Lanham, an Indiana University graduate
student in the Arts Administration, explores a few of the various
functions, methods of construction, and materials used in the creation of
boxes, as well as the significance of the box in different
cultures.
Box It Up! will be on exhibit at the Mathers
Museum through Sunday, November 16, 2008.
The Mathers Museum is located at 416 North Indiana Avenue in
Bloomington, and is open Tuesdays through Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m.; and Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Admission to the
Museum is free.
Free visitor parking is available by the entrance on Indiana Avenue,
and on surrounding streets (during weekends). Metered and IU Permit
parking spaces are available at the McCalla School parking lot on the
corner of Ninth Street and Indiana Avenue.
An access ramp is located at the corner of Ninth Street and Fess
Avenue, at the entrance to the Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology
adjoining the Mathers Museum. Reserved parking spaces are available on
Ninth Street, between Fess Avenue and Indiana Avenue. If you have a
disability and need assistance, special arrangements can be made to
accommodate most needs. Please call 812-855-1696 for assistance.
For more information, or to schedule a guided group tour, please call
812-855-6873, or e-mail mathers@indiana.edu.
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Contact: mathers@indiana.edu
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