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Art of Anthropology
Students get credit for course by volunteering for museum
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BY EMILY HARRELL
The Battalion
new non-profit organization and a Texas A&M professor have
riven an A&M anthropology class the opportunity to bring a
.new art exhibit to the Brazos Valley Museum in Bryan,
The exhibit, "Art and Artifacts from Millennia Past,” was de
veloped by the non-profit organization the School of Expressive
Culture (SEC) in collaboration with A&M. and wms headed by Dr.
Carolyn Boyd, w ho is a professor of anthropology and vice-presi
dent of the SEC.
Boyd said she got the idea for the exhibit project in Spring 1999,
but the project and its related course. Anthropology 4<S l >, The Art
of Anthropology, did not reach fruition until Fall 1999.
She said that making a class out
of tlie exhibit stemmed from her
M| enthusiasm for the
* project as well as her
desire to give the expe- j
rience of organizing *
an art exhibit to
k her students,
v “1 think
\ that one of the
' tJ things that’s re-
ally lacking tor
^ many of the students is
that hands-on experience,”
Boyd said.
The elass allowed 13 stu
dents the opportunity to help
get “Art and Artifacts From
Millennia Past” displayed in
Bryan. Led by Boyd, the
I class divided into tasks
ft such as promotion, layout,
m research, labeling, audio
setup, and more.
"They are [the stu-
Ifcl dents] so proud. They
ilr have done something.
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This is really for the community,” Boyd said. “We really needed to
break down the walls between academia and the community.
They’ll never forget this.”
Boyd said not only have the students from
the “Anthropology of Art” class gotten in
volved in the project, but students in An
thropology 205 have donated over 500 vol
unteer hours as well.
And their work is not done yet. She
said students w ill continue to volunteer as
docents in the museum and will walk pa
trons through the exhibit, explaining the
items on display.
Jessica Lee, administrative assistant
and museum coordinator for the SEC
and a senior anthropology major,
said, “Art and Artifacts From
Millennia Past” demonstrates
how much can be learned
about cultures from their art
work and the concept of “ex
pressive culture.”
She said the phrase “expres
sive culture” is used to describe
anything about a certain culture
that is expressive, such as art, music
or poetry. In anthropology and archaeol
ogy, the study of expressive culture is a new and
exciting field.
“No one ever wanted to study [expressive culture] before, be
cause they said it was too objective. So [archaeologists] would
have rock shelters with rock art on the wall. They would excavate
the rock shelters and make their notes and then mention at the bot
tom of the page, ‘Oh, and there’s rock art on the wall,”’ Lee said.
Boyd said her study of expressive culture for “Art and Artifacts
From Millennia Past” has opened her eyes to how similar all hu
mans are.
“By all means, 1 have realized that we are not very different.
That we’re all the same. That art is essential for survival. Like I’ve
said a thousand times; Not art for art’s sake, but art for life’s sake.
By using the art of contemporary societies, I have begun to under
stand the art of 4,000 years ago, and it’s because we are so simi
lar,” Boyd said.
Lee said that “Art and Artifacts From Millennia Past” w ill con
tain never-before displayed art and artifacts from three cultures, in
cluding the Kalahari San Bushmen of South Africa, the Huichol
Indians of Mexico and prehistoric Texas Indians from the Lower
Pecos region.
She said the San Bushmen benefited from the research done for
the exhibit because they were able to identify their South African an
cestors by studying their ancient rock art which will be on display.
The exhibit also includes a 4,000 year old yam painting by the
Huichol Indians, provided by the Texas Archaeological Research
Laboratory, and some replicas of the Huichol’s ancient artwork.
A&M students helped to make it happen.
“It doesn’t matter the time or place (the art work is from]. That’s
really not as important as the fact in general that humans use their
art —- whether it be paintings or sculptures or
poetry or theater — as a form
of communication and
celebration of who
they are and what ffil
that is,” Lee said. ' -v
“Art is power, and
people just
don’t think of
it that way.”
Lee said that
while the unfin
ished exhibit
opened Feb. 12, a grand
opening celebration is
scheduled for Saturday,
Feb. 19.
The celebration, which
is open to the public, will
begin at 10 a.m. and will
have activities such as spear
throwing, basket weaving,
paint making and yarn paint
ing. Museum lours will run
all day.
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