Hi All, I just had to share. I am on the Illinois State Museum mailing list for emails of upcoming events. Click on the link below and you will go to a YouTube movie of the people dressing a manikin with a beautiful lace dress. (I hope the link works for you.) The next link goes to the site of the Illinois State Museum and explains the exhibit. I myself would like to go to the Illinois Museum in Springfield and see this exhibit. Just for the dress if nothing else. Not sure if it is handmade or machine made lace but I still think it would be exciting. ___ The Urge to Embellish
This exhibition (At the Illinois State Museum in Springfield Illinois) examines a basic human impulse - the urge to embellish. Visitors will have the opportunity to view an eclectic array of new acquisitions and rarely-seen works from the Illinois State Museum Collection made predominantly by non-professional artists. The objects reveal how embellishment has been guided by experimentation, learned behavior, social expectations, and tradition. Included are commemorative, ceremonial, decorative, functional, and whimsical objects spanning nearly two centuries with a heavy concentration from the mid-to late-nineteenth century when the idiom of effusive ornamentation reached its zenith and pervaded visual culture. The exhibition is comprised of 2- and 3-dimensional pieces constructed with beads, ceramic, feathers, fibers, human hair, metal, papier-mâché, porcelain and wood. The Urge to Embellish exhibition will be open from February 6, 2011 through October 2, 2011. ______ Link to the staff dressing the manikin with the lace dress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vghTOT01PgM Link to the Illinois State Museum Website listing the exhibit. Susie ____________________ Susie Johnson, Member L.A.C.E., I.O.L.I., Arachne List Morris, Illinois [email protected] http://www.lacemakersofillinois.org - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://community.webshots.com/user/arachne2003
