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Upstairs Gallery | Window Gallery | Community Showcase GALLERY EXHIBITS John and Nadiya Weidman's "Children's Mural Project." In 1993 in Poltava, Ukraine, sculptor John Weidman was invited to present exhibition at the Krayeznavchy Museum. While there, he and his wife, Nadiya, began a children's mural project that has been repeated in Taiwan, Vietnam, and the United States. John and Nadiya implemented the idea for the first mural by impulsively gathering a roll of wallpaper, colored clay, watercolors and crayons and taking them to an orphanage in Poltava. Since then, besides their own contributions, materials have been donated by others eager to see the project continue. The US Information Agency in Kyiv, (US Embassy, Ukraine), and people like George Infanti (proprietor of Milford Paint and Wallpaper; right here in New Hampshire) are among the many helpful contributors. John has stated that it's about people making connections with others through art and, with these murals, kids talking to kids in a visual language, learning that there are children very much like themselves in far-away countries. John, whose sculptures are known throughout the world and Nadiya are currently participating in the First International Sculpture Symposium 2007 in Hai Phong, Vietnam. They took with them the most recent mural done by third grade students at Richard Maghakian Memorial School in Brookline and plan to bring one back to the United States that will be created by Hai Phong school children. Besides being a professional sculptor, John is Director of Andres Institute of Art in Brookline. Nadiya, who also documents the mural projects, is Gallery Curator at the Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center. For information and performances contact us at 603-924-4555. WINDOW GALLERY The window gallery is a rotating exhibit. For more information call 603-924-4555. For more information call 603-924-4555. --> THERESE LAMARRE BOURDON COMMUNITY SHOWCASE Oaxacan Animalitos Exhibit The newly donated Jean-Noel Jacobsen collection of Oaxacan carved and painted animalitos plus an exquisite Huichol Indian bead-encrusted carved deer are gracefully hung in the Therese Lamarre Bourdon Community Showcase at Mariposa Museum & World Culture Center this holiday season along with cheerful Animalitos from the museum's permanent collection. The wooden animals are carved from curiously curved roots that put the maker in mind of a giraffe or perhaps a salamander; then painstakingly painted, often in a cubist style, by his family during the off-season from farming. The tradition grew out of mask carving for fiestas in Oaxaca, home to some sixty indigenous cultures and languages. The animalitos have become a major tourist collectible and help the farm families pay school fees, uniforms, books to keep their children in school. Some are for sale in the museum gift shop and others across the Zen Garden at Joseph's Coat PeaceCrafts, with prices from $16 for good luck grasshoppers. Curator Nadiya Weidman hung the striking exhibit before accompanying her husband John to the "Magic Mountains" of Vietnam, subject of Marjorie Pivar's book and Mariposa slide show last spring, called "Fourth Uncle on the Mountain," about a barefoot herbal doctor and monk with magical meditation powers. Internationally known for his on-site sculptures, John will participate in a symposium and create a permanent metalwork installation on the mountain. While Vietnamese say the magic has disappeared with the Communist regime, we look forward to a slide lecture by John and Nadiya upon their return this winter and a look at the magic John has surely left behind. other cultures, the world will know more peace and less war. 
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