Decked Out! in the DAI Experiencenter
The nation's first interactive, intergenerational museum gallery explores the art and culture of body adornment, jewelry, and costume.
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Decked Out! in the DAI Experiencenter
The nation’s first interactive, intergenerational museum gallery explores the art and culture of body adornment, jewelry, and costume.
Featured permanent collection objects in Decked Out! include portraits, textiles, Asian belt buckles, Byzantine rings, African bracelets, European lace and Asian fans. Costumes from the Wright State Theater Departmentwill be displayed alongside artists’ installations and hands-on gallery activities for all ages, preschool to adult. BodyMod, designed by Dayton Early College Academy students, will connect visitors to the fascinating history of make-up, tattooing and body shaping. Young learners will delight in puppets, books about dress, manipulatives and a dress-up chest of costumes.
The William and Dorothy Yeck Family Foundation supports installations by regional artists in the Experiencenter. Full Circle: Tales of Transformation features audience-activated zoetropes that animate silhouetted people transformed with clothing. It was created by Bridgette Bogle, who recently completed a commission for Dayton Children’s Hospital, and Francis Schanberger, a two-time Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner. Beginning November 8, Cincinnati-based artist Deborah Brod's art project with the DECA PREP students, called Flying Scarves, Fantasy Shoes, will be on view in the exhibition.
Adornments, by Migiwa Orimo, combines found objects, mirrors, small sculptures and drawings that playfully upend our ideas about personal embellishment. Orimo has received four OAC Individual Excellence Awards and a World Artist Residency at SPACES in Cleveland.
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