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Racine Art Museum Showcases Ornamented Vessels by Wisconsin Metalsmith

RACINE, WIS.- The Racine Art Museum commissioned metalsmith and UW-Madison Department of Art Assistant Professor Kim Cridler to create a new exhibition for its Windows on Fifth Gallery. This summer, the museum encourages visitors to embrace adventure, explore new destinations, connect to local culture and uncover cultural influences – all through art. Open July 31, 2011 through July 22, 2012, My Wisconsin Home, Cridler links object making to an examination of place. As she states, “this project and the investigative process at its heart is testimony to my love for and interest in Wisconsin, its sheer physical grandeur and its rich history, its settlements and displacements. I hope this attempt to understand my surroundings through study and research will provide me, a more recent settler, to find a place for myself in the order of things.” Using