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  • Benton: Exhibitions Closing Very Soon

    Benton:  Exhibitions Closing Very Soon

    51st Annual Studio Art Faculty Exhibition.  This annual exhibition highlights recent work of the permanent, adjunct, and visiting studio art faculty from the Department of Art and Art History, School of Fine Arts at UConn. A variety of media are featured; painting, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, printmaking, photography, and installation art. Such diverse bodies of work represent the most significant directions in contemporary art, as well as the unique vision of each artist-faculty member.

    Ancestors of the Passage: Work by Imna Arroyo.  Inspired by this year’s UConn Reads selected book, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees, and the histories of voluntary and involuntary immigration that brought us to become American. Imna Arroyo’s art installation explores the forced immigration of slaves from Africa. The ancestors of the Middle Passage, those who had been on slave ships going from Africa to the Caribbean who did not survive. This exhibition is a collaboration with: The Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center; El Instituto: Institute of Latina/o, Caribbean, and Latin American Studies; the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute; and the Art and Art History Department of the School of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut

    Both exhibitions will close on March 11, 2018.

    Hours:  Tues – Fri:  10am – 4:30pm / Sat – Sun 1pm – 4:30pm

    THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART                    
    University of Connecticut
    School of Fine Arts
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    Storrs, CT

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