Brooke Bocast, doctoral candidate in Anthropology, created the Center's 2008-09 exhibit on museum display formats, using artifacts from Temple's Anthropology Lab. Bocast was a Graduate Associate at the Center in 2007-08.
Previous Exhibits
Free and open to the public, from 10 am to 4 pm weekdays at CHAT, 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, 1115 W Berks St., Philadelphia, PA. For inquiries, call CHAT at 215/204-6386 or email CHAT@temple.edu.
Amadeo Lasansky
Flags
A study of flags as complex visual spaces. Amadeo Lasansky is a photographer living in New York city.
January 18—May 12, 2011
M-F, 10 am-4 pm, CHAT Gallery
10th floor, Gladfelter Hall (more... )
Avishai Mekonen
Seven Generations
A vivid photographic exploration of the lives of Ethiopian Jews living in Israel.
Avishai Mekonen is a filmmaker and photographer who emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel in 1984 as part of Operation Moses. In 2001 he emigrated again, this time to New York City, where he currently lives.
Tuesday, August 31—Thursday, January 13, 2011
M-F, 10 am-4 pm
CHAT Gallery, 10th floor, Gladfelter Hall
Reception Tuesday, Sept. 21, 4-5:30 pm (more... )
http://www.avishaimekonen.com/
Martha Madigan
Infiorate
Jan. 19 — July 1, 2010
CHAT Gallery
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall
M-F, 10 am — 4 pm l
Italian streets and piazzas are embellished by elaborate flower carpets during this annual festival.
Martha Madigan is Professor of Photography in Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Sherrie Nickol
Crowdscapes
Sept. 3 — Jan. 31, 2010
CHAT Gallery
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall
M-F, 10 am — 4 pm
Sherrie Nickol searches for the interconnection between groups of people and their surroundings. The emotional interaction among the subjects that populate these places is central to this body of work. Nickol’s insightful photographs lead her viewers to a larger understanding of the meaning of ‘crowds.’
David Katzenstein
Islam in Africa: A Pligrimage to Touba, Senegal
Jan. 30 — May 1, 2009
CHAT Gallery
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall
M-F, 10 am — 4 pm
October 2008 — February 2010
Glorious Commerce: Exhibitionary Strategies of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum, 1893-1926
In 1893 University of Pennsylvania professor William Wilson founded the Philadelphia Commercial Museum and built a collection including most of the objects from the World’s Fairs’ displays. The Museum had two goals: to help American businesses prevail in foreign markets; and to impress upon the general public that commercial expansion was a lucrative alternative to military imperialism.
To meet these goals, Wilson’s exhibition strategy arranged objects either according to type or region of production, strategies meant to explain both what was available for purchase and where objects could be bought and sold.
Wilson believed that by cultivating markets in underdeveloped regions, he could widen the United States’ sphere of influence. Each of the cases in Glorious Commerce reflect one of Wilson’s exhibitionary strategies in order to highlight the role of museum collection and display in the discursive production of “other” places and cultures.
Glorious Commerce includes materials from both the Temple Anthropology Lab’s permanent collection and the Philadelphia City Archives. CHAT would like to thank Jessica Winegar, Gordon Gray, Muriel Kirkpatrick, and Brooke Bocast of Temple’s Anthropology department for displaying the exhibit in our lounge.
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