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Today at the Museum

May 23, 2013

Thinking Globally: Exploring the MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian Art Collection

7 – 8 p.m.
Pillsbury Auditorium

Presenter: Risha Lee, the MIA's Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art. The MIA's Indian and Southeast Asian art collection contains many gems of art, produced in a variety of times and places. In an introduction to the collecti...

Exhibition

MCAD@MIA

Thursday, March 21, 2013—Monday, June 17, 2013
Pillsbury Lobby staircase
Free Exhibition

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Minneapolis College of Art & Design invited current MCAD students to submit proposals to MCAD@MIA, a unique opportunity for MCAD students to create a site-specific art installation at the MIA.

After careful deliberations, the panel chose Josh Manoles and Linnea Stephan's proposal for a wall installation of a pictographic character system derived from objects in the museum collection. Situated on the main staircase wall that connects all three floors of the museum, the pictographic system will highlight ties among different collections and provide a visually dynamic wayfinding guide.