{"exhibit":{"id":7,"title":"Virtual Streams of Being","description":"<p>Drawn from the permanent collection and archives of the Art Museum of the Americas, <em>Streams of Bein<\/em>g brings to light a multiplicity of ideas and identities emerging within contemporary Latin American art.\u00a0 Featuring forty-five artists from sixteen countries across the Americas, the exhibition explores the permeable boundaries and dimensions of life through interrelated themes of scale and place, human and animal bodies.\u00a0 The exhibition\u2019s open structure emphasizes the myriad and active relationships between the objects on view and the wider world that they, and we, inhabit.\u00a0 A nexus of suggestively infinite \u201cstreams of being,\u201d the galleries channel the interplay of existence and embodiment through a diversity of mediums, encompassing watercolor, collage, lithography, serigraphy, painting, pencil and ink drawing, and an artist\u2019s book.\u00a0 In its inter-American reach, <em>Streams of Being<\/em> also meditates on the specificity of the hemispheric purview of the Organization of American States and its commitment to cultural exchange.<br \/><br \/>A new collaboration between the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States and The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, <em>Streams of Being<\/em> reflects each institution\u2019s commitment to education and outreach.\u00a0 Graduate and undergraduate students in the university\u2019s Department of Art History &amp; Archaeology worked with Assistant Professor Abigail McEwen to shape this exhibition over the course of the current academic year.<\/p>","credits":"","featured":1,"public":1,"theme":"","theme_options":null,"slug":"virtual-streams-of-being","added":"2014-11-17 14:16:42","modified":"2015-03-24 09:08:50","owner_id":1,"use_summary_page":1,"cover_image_file_id":null},"item":{"id":696,"item_type_id":6,"collection_id":null,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2015-03-10 08:59:23","modified":"2015-03-10 08:59:23","owner_id":1}}