#mint museum

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Summer Wheat created this mural, Foragers, in 2020 for the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it remains on view today.

From the museum about the work-

This monumental “stained glass” installation celebrates the resilience of North Carolina’s community of makers and providers and creates a space where our present-day Charlotte community can gather for contemplation and inspiration. Collaging sheets of colored vinyl, Wheat has created a towering, prismatic composition that fills all 96 windows of the Mint atrium with female figures of varied sizes, ages, shapes, and races performing acts of labor: fisherwomen, beekeepers, hunters, mothers, caretakers, farmers, bankers.

Following the tradition of stained-glass windows found in places of worship, Wheat offers a narrative of hope and resilience that can be enjoyed in a few minutes or studied over hours. Wheat says that “Foragers presents a tradition in which women were the original hunters, technologists, and artists. This array of women connected by geometric patterns echoes the psychological space of women supporting each other. They are marching together, connecting to creatures from land and water, demonstrating their inherent link to natural elements and to the intricate depths of the unconscious.”

The women in Foragers also call attention to the underrecognized populations who have cultivated the land that we now call North Carolina, from the indigenous tribes to the colonial settlers to the enslaved Africans and all those who have followed. The region is home to myriad traditions-ceramics, basket weaving, quilting, furniture construction, textile production-and The Mint Museum specifically celebrates that legacy through its collection and exhibitions. Foragers salutes North Carolina’s history of creativity and industry, both by those whose names we know and those who remain anonymous.

Her latest exhibition, Fertile Ground, is currently on view at Nazarian/Curcio in Los Angeles, closing on 4/6/24. It includes new paintings and three stone mosaic sculptures.

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...perusing art at the DeMell Jacobsen Collection...Mint Museum...Charlotte, North Carolina...

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CHDWCKART Mint Museum

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Russell Young, Nina Simone, (hand-pulled acrylic, enamel screen print and diamond dust on linen), 2017 [The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. © Russell Young]

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OH MY GOD ITS BEN WILLBOND

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Unused matchbook from the Mint, Las Vegas, circa 1960

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Iron Age Dobunnic Coin Pellet Tray Fragments, Bagendon, Corinium Museum, Cirencester

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got the working from home station swag

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Spending a gloomy day on this lil guy :) should be able to finish today but need a brief break

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Do you plan to make a servalia fic one day?

if i get a good enough idea, yes. i don't have anything for them, it's scraped bare in my head. it's like. lactation question mark? bondage question mark? painplay question mark? bratty bottom serval? cocolia being a very mean domme, or soft domme? sexting? cocolia making sure she lactates to ground into her body so she doesn't have to hear the stellaron whispers and serval having to help her out with that? who knows! i can't quite make a full idea come together and stick the way i will sometimes have one with kafhime or arlebina.

i wouldn't want to snipe an idea from mintsoir either, considering the cross-pollination sometimes happening when we talk.

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Ofer Wolberger’s photo of Spencer Finch’s installation Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on that September Morning, 2014, located at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.

From the museum’s webpage about the work-

At the heart of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s mission is the promise to commemorate the 2,983 killed as a result of the 9/11 and February 26, 1993 attacks. The Memorial and the Museum fulfills this sacred responsibility in many ways—through memorialization, through education and, in some cases, through artistic expression.

One of the Museum’s most recognizable installations is a piece by artist Spencer Finch titled “Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning.” This work runs prominently through Memorial Hall, or the space that connects the two main exhibitions at bedrock in the Museum. This larger-than-life installation is part of the Memorial Museum’s permanent collection and was commissioned in 2014 before the Museum opened its doors to the public.

The piece is comprised of 2,983 individual watercolor squares—each representing a victim of the 2001 and 1993 attacks—and symbolizes the idea of memory. Many remember the beauty of the clear blue sky on the morning of 9/11. But, our own perception of the color blue might not be the same as that of another person. However, just like our perception of color, our memories share a common point of reference.

Within the larger art installation is the quote “No Day Shall Erase You From the Memory of Time” from Book IX of The Aeneid by Roman poet Virgil. Each letter was forged from recovered World Trade Center steel by New Mexico artist Tom Joyce. This quote suggests the transformative potential of remembrance and succinctly reinforces the 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s mission. Today, while the Memorial and the Museum are temporarily closed, these words remain as true as ever.

The image of the work shown above was included in Mint Museum’s 2021 exhibition, W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine.

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man aou is a wonderful actor. when him and boom get a series next year i will be Sat

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ok what the FUCK is going on

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New 50p coins designed by palaeoartist Bob Nicholls available now

The Natural History Museum has teamed up once more with The Royal Mint to produce a new coin collection, this time featuring iconic dinosaur species

The Natural History Museum has teamed up once more with The Royal Mint to produce a new coin collection, this time featuring iconic dinosaur species. The coins will be available in a number of different forms, with and without colour. © The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London Sadly, don’t expect to find them in your change. Although the coins will be legal tender, they won’t go into…

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Las Vegas Mint slot token, 1980