| GI-269686-20 | Public Programs: Exhibitions: Implementation | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Portable Universe/El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia | 6/1/2020 - 5/31/2023 | $400,000.00 | Diana | | Magaloni | | | | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | CA | 90036-4504 | USA | 2020 | Art History and Criticism | Exhibitions: Implementation | Public Programs | 400000 | 0 | 400000 | 0 | Implementation of a 10,000-square-foot traveling exhibition on the art of Colombia from 500 BCE to 1600 CE.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) respectfully requests a $400,000 implementation grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support "Portable Universe/El Universo en tus Manos: Thought and Splendor of Indigenous Colombia," a traveling exhibition on view in Los Angeles (October 31, 2021-February 20, 2022) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (June 20-September 19, 2021). Portable Universe will be the first comprehensive exhibition and in-depth investigation into the art of ancient Colombia in 20 years and will bring together approximately 400 objects spanning all major pre-Columbian cultures of Colombia from 500 BCE to 1600 CE. Curated by Dr. Diana Magaloni, Deputy Director, Program Director & Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas, and Director of Conservation,and Dr. Julia Burtenshaw, Assistant Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas,it will be accompanied by a catalogue and an array of interpretive humanities and educational programs. |