Docent Leah Gibbons offers this week's Folk Art Piece of the Week post: a look at the hamsa, a powerful symbol shared for centuries across North African cultures. Leah guides us to the array of hamsas displayed among the amulets, ex-votos, and milagros in the entryway to MOIFA's Multiple Visions exhibit and -- if you look carefully in the exhibit hall -- within and above Alexander Girard's Moroccan scene.
Read more
Folk Art Piece of the Week - Docent's Choice
Latest Posts
-
COVID-19 Embroideries
- Nov 10, 2022 -
Guru Mahatmya
- Jul 20, 2021 -
The COVID-19 Pandemic from an Indigenous Perspective
- Feb 17, 2021 -
Docent's Choice
- Jul 23, 2020 -
Folk Art Piece of the Week - Docent's Choice
- Jul 02, 2020
Tags
- behind the scenes (6)
- memories (5)
- archives (5)
- Florence Dibell Bartlett (2)
- Japan (2)
- curators (2)
- docents (2)
- museum education (2)
- Gallery of Conscience (2)
- Sacred Realm (2)
Archives
- November 2022 (1)
- July 2021 (1)
- February 2021 (1)
- July 2020 (2)
- June 2020 (1)
- May 2020 (4)
- April 2020 (2)
- January 2019 (1)
- October 2018 (1)
- May 2018 (1)