Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/02/2014
4:15 pm
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Location
Fleming Hall
1000 W. College Avenue
- Silver City, NM
Western New Mexico University Museum and the Francis McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art will be the joint venues for Neo-Mimbreño 2014, a Silver City Clay Festival exhibition, on Saturday, August 2. Neo-Mimbreño 2014 is a juried fine art exhibition of contemporary works influenced or inspired by designs of the ancient Mimbres potters of the Southwest. Artists entering the exhibition were encouraged to creatively reinterpret, personalize, or carry the Mimbreño vision into new formats and media.
A special addition to this year’s Clay Festival exhibitions is a presentation of the work of WNMU Professor Emeritus, Claude W. Smith III. The Claude W. Smith III exhibition will open at McCray Gallery on Saturday, August 2, 2014 concurrently with the Neo-Mimbreño 2014 exhibition from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Neo-Mimbreño 2014 awards will be presented at Western New Mexico University Museum at 4:15 p.m.
Neo-Mimbreño 2014 will run from August 2 through August 30, 2014, and is made possible in part by contributions from the New Mexico Humanities Council, Western New Mexico University Museum, the Town of Silver City, and Western New Mexico University. Western New Mexico University Museum is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and closed University holidays.
For more information about WNMU Museum events, current exhibitions, and closures please visit www.wnmumuseum.org. McCray Gallery hours of operation are Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and will be open during Clay Festival weekend, August 2-3, 2014. Admission is free to both WNMU Museum and McCray Gallery.