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SUMMARY:Member Preview Day of Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Member Preview Day\nGinny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination\nFriday\, October 13 | 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.\nMuseum Members Only\nThe Huntsville Museum of Art invites our Museum Members to attend an exclusive\, Members-only preview of our newest exhibition\, Ginny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination\, the day before it opens to the public. Docents will be leading two tours of this exhibition for our Members. Take a deep dive during your preview day by attending a tour at 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. \nGinny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination combines traditional sculpture with augmented reality (AR). By using technology to overlay digital information onto sculptural objects\, two disparate environments are portrayed. The setting is an apocalyptic landscape far in the future. The initial environment consists of five landmasses\, which support the glass stumps. Except for the painted shelf mushrooms and tree rings on the stumps and logs\, the scene is colorless. The landmasses surround a sixth rocky outcropping that features a large fiberglass stump. The central stump sprouts beautifully grotesque bronze\, then glass appendages. This improbable growth has survived the devastation to create a new botany. \n“Other than the central stump\, the landscape appears at first glance to be barren. Yet\, upon viewing the tree rings aided by AR technology a second environment is revealed. Plants appear (both fruit and flowers) which have evolved from existing flora. They have developed dramatic appendages and the skills necessary to adapt and flourish in this radically different environment. From accessing nutrients in ways that symbiotically improve their surrounding conditions\, to cultivating protections from new threats\, these adaptations are unexpected\, beautiful\, and optimistic. This is nature reimagining itself. The imagination cannot be exterminated. It just recreates itself.” —Ginny Ruffner \nGinny Ruffner: Reforestation of the Imagination is organized by the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Generous support for this exhibition is provided by Art Bridges\, the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative\, Elizabeth and James Eisenstein\, Ed and Kathy Fries\, Shelby and Frederick Gans\, James Renwick Alliance\, Colleen and John Kotelly\, Betty and Whitney MacMillan\, Jacqueline B. Mars\, Kim and Jon Shirley Foundation\, and Myra and Harold Weiss. \n \n \n  \nThank you\, Sponsors!\nPresident’s Circle Sponsors:\nDee and Richard Kowallik \nArtist’s Circle Sponsors:\nCarol and Jim Tevepaugh \n 
URL:https://hsvmuseum.org/eventcalendar/member-preview-day-of-ginny-ruffner-reforestation-of-the-imagination/
LOCATION:Huntsville Museum of Art\, 300 Church Street S.W.\, Huntsville\, AL\, 35801\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition Opening,Exhibition Program
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