The Museum for Obeast Conservation Studies was founded in 2010 as an organization for the historical and scientific study of the endangered North American Obeast. Given their reclusive natures and dwindling numbers, little is known about this genus of bipedal marsupials, which was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. This exhibition was hosted [...]
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museum for obeast conservation studies
Posted in installations, photos, sculpture, summer 10, tagged archaeology, art, artifacts, artist, chubby, fat, fatness, fiction, found object art, herrick, identity art, installation, installation art, maine, maine college of art, meca, museum, muu muu, muumuu, nourish, obeast, obeasts, obese, obesity, political art, portland, portland maine, rachel herrick, raleigh on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
there, there: the morning after
Posted in installations, nostalgia, photos, sculpture, spring 10, tagged art, found object art, installation art, memory, north carolina art, nostalgia, raleigh, tobacco on March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
there, there… opens tonight!
Posted in installations, spring 10, tagged baby clothes, found object art, installation art, little otik, tobacco, vintage dresses on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
See you tonight at the opening of there, there… I’m the one wearing a yellow sweater and green glasses. Come say hi! Today I’m scrambling to put those last minute, idiosyncratic finishing touches on the installation. I had a restless night dreaming of different impossible scenarios that could (but won’t) go down tonight. It’s an just [...]
