Teen Leader Event
American Folk Art Museum
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
4:30 PM
Tours led by teen leaders, including six (!) WHEELS students.
Mystery and Benevolence: Masonic and Odd Fellows Folk Art from the Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection
Enigmatic, evocative, and often simply strange, fraternal references are
a rich part of contemporary American popular culture. But the seductive
mystique of secret societies, with their cryptic signs, gestures, and
arcane rituals, has been inculcated in our American experience since the
early eighteenth century. Before the age of mass production, the artist
who painted a portrait or embellished a piece of furniture might have
also decorated a parade banner, an apron, symbols on a chart, or a
backdrop for a fraternal lodge. More important, he or she encoded the
ideals of fellowship, labor, charity, passage, and wisdom—the core of
fraternal teachings—into the many forms associated with fraternal
practice. The iconic art and objects showcased in Mystery and Benevolence relate
the tenets of fraternal belief through a potent combination of highly
charged imagery, form, and meaning. The exhibition explores the
fascinating visual landscape of fraternal culture through almost two
hundred works of art comprising a major gift to the American Folk Art
Museum from Kendra and Allan Daniel.
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