{"id":28972,"date":"2016-03-25T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T14:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=28972"},"modified":"2019-09-16T14:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:23:33","slug":"cultural-truth-conflict-and-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/cultural-truth-conflict-and-empathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Truth: Conflict and Empathy"},"content":{"rendered":"

From March 22<\/sup>to April 29, Boston University School of Theology will display an art exhibit of cultural\u00a0objects by\u00a0Lynne Allen, the current dean ad interim and professor of arts at the BU College of Fine Arts. Allen traces her heritage six generations back to Ita ta Win (Wind Woman), depicted in a digital print piece in the exhibit, and says that every matriarch in her family has been a member of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
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\nIn an essay\u00a0about Allen’s recent work, Nature Morte<\/em>,\u00a0Lynne Cooney writes that the collection\u00a0includes various art forms and techniques “ranging from richly layered prints … exquisitely composed photogravures … and multiples of fabricated miniature glass and resin objects.” Cooney is the artistic director of the Boston University Art Galleries.
\nCapturing\u00a0her Sioux heritage, Allen provides symbolic and sentimental objects to illustrate historical identities. The objects and work,\u00a0as Allen describes, depict “the difference between what is true about our collective history and what is imagined.” Chalk-inked packing blankets, carborundum etchings,\u00a0and digital print pieces bring beautifully illustrated context to\u00a0the story of Allen’s heritage.
\nA reception for the exhibit will be held on Wednesday, April 6 at 5:30pm at 745 Commonwealth Ave, B23-B24 in Boston.
\nLynne Allen<\/a> Bio:<\/p>\n

Lynne Allen is currently Dean ad interim of the College of Fine Arts at Boston University, having come to BU as a Professor and Director of the School of Visual Arts in 2006. From 1989-2006 she was Professor of Art at Rutgers; Director of the Brodsky Center (2000-2006); and Associate Director (1989-2000). She was Master Printer and Educational Director at Tamarind Institute where she ran the Professional workshop (1983-1987).<\/p>\n

Allen exhibits nationally and internationally, and has been awarded many residencies and fellowships, including two Fulbright Scholarships, one to the U.S.S.R (1990) and one in Jordan (2004-05). Her work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art Library, the New York Public Library, New York; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, among others.<\/p>\n

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