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CA -- San Diego -- Balboa Park -- Mingei International Museum -- Exhibit: Art of the People for the People:

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Description of Pictures: Art of the People for the People
Commons Level Installation
On View Sep 3, 2021 - Aug 14, 2022
Curated By Barbara Hanson Forsyth and Camille Bethune-Brown
The Museum’s free Commons Level will also feature selections from the Museum’s permanent collection. The art displayed establishes a connection between the Mingei’s roots in the early 20th-century Japanese mingei movement and the Museum’s dynamic collecting mission focused on “art of the people.”
The Museum’s free Commons Level will also feature selections from the Museum’s permanent collection. The art displayed establishes a connection between the Mingei’s roots in the early 20th-century Japanese mingei movement and the Museum’s dynamic collecting mission focused on “art of the people.”
Objects range from functional Japanese ceramics and indigenous baskets to whimsical folk toys and miniatures from around the globe, all celebrating the many ways art connects us across geography and time. They also showcase the intricate interplay between humans and the natural world, as well as the persistent desire to make and live with beautiful and well-crafted things. Above all, the objects are intended to spark creativity, imagination and joy.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MINGPE_220719_22.JPG: A New Season
2. MINGPE_220719_31.JPG: Scan the QR code to make a contribution and add to Mingei's transformation story
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Wikipedia Description: Mingei International Museum
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The Mingei International Museum is a non-profit public institution that collects, conserves and exhibits folk art, craft and design. The word mingei, meaning 'art of the people,' was coined by the Japanese scholar Dr. Soetsu Yanagi by combining the Japanese words for all people (min) and art (gei).

History:

Mingei International Museum was founded by Martha Longenecker, Professor of Art Emerita, San Diego State University. As an artist craftsman who studied pottery-making in Japan, she became acquainted with and learned from the founders and leaders of the Mingei Association of Japan. Under her guidance, the Museum was established and developed over more than 27 years.

In May 1978, Mingei International Museum of World Folk Art opened at University Towne Centre in San Diego with the exhibition, Dolls and Folk Toys of the World.

In August 1996, Mingei International was relocated to the historic House of Charm on the Plaza de Panama in Balboa Park. It shares the central square with the San Diego Museum of Art and the Timken Museum of Art.

In 2003, Mingei International opened a second museum in downtown Escondido, in North San Diego County. The premiere exhibition, Niki de Saint Phalle Remembered featured the artist's work from the Museum’s permanent collection and loans from the Niki Charitable Art Foundation.

In its 30-year history, Mingei International has presented 140 exhibitions, accompanied by related lectures, films, demonstrations, workshops, music, theater and dance.

Mingei International Museum closed its Escondido museum galleries to the public on June 26, 2010.

Collections:

The Museum's collections comprise 17,500 objects from 141 countries. The collections contain artifacts from the 3rd century BCE to the present day and include objects as diverse as ancient clay vessels and 21st-century Venetian glass.

Several regions of the world are represented.

Mexico: pottery, wood carvings, textiles, retablos, masks
India: bronzes, wood carvings, pottery, textiles
China: costumes, jewelry, wood carvings, pottery
Japan: pottery, textiles, wood carvings, lacquer ware, metal work
Indonesia: ancestral monuments, wood carvings, textiles, masks, sculptures
Africa: pottery, head rests, stools, masks, textiles
Pre-Columbian: pottery and textiles from Central and South America
Middle East: textiles, jewelry, wood carvings
U.S.A.: mid 20th-century pottery; contemporary furniture, textiles, glass; Navajo weavings
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