Messages & Magic

Messages & Magic is an unprecedented exhibition that traces American popular culture through a century of collage and assemblage—art forms that have captivated both internationally renowned and virtually unknown self-taught, folk, and academically trained artists. These artists have discovered that recognizable imagery and objects extracted from shared culture inherently carry powerful associations and meanings, in ways which entirely hand-rendered objects cannot. Akin to popular culture itself, their art reaches across social and cultural boundaries. Folk idioms such as memory jugs and friendship canes are situated as part of a continuum that some 100 years later developed into electronic works.

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Education

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• Messages and magic
• Collage
• Assemblage
• Product labels
• Magazine clippings
• Artist
• Imagery
• Symbol
• Art
• Found Object
• Design
• Leslie Umberger
• Lucy Slivinski
• Charles A. A. Dellschau
• Bert Ohnstad
• Henry Darger
• Martín Ramírez
• James Castle
• Joseph Cornell
• Lenore Tawney

[Grandood]

Good idea to have videos like this online which can be viewed prior to going to the museum, especially for those of us who live some distance from Sheboygan. Nice job.