Join us for a gallery tour of Deep Seated led by Curator and Founder of the Museum of Everyday Life Clare Dolan to celebrate the opening of our fall exhibitions.
Deep Seated explores chairs, ancient furniture still ubiquitous today. Responding directly to human anatomy and our need for rest and repose, the chair also resonates with a multiplicity of connotations. Chairs enable us, punish us, connect us, elevate us, isolate us, and appear as rich symbols in dreams, fairy tales, and religious myths.
Dolan is painter, director, performer, curator, and intensive care unit nurse living in Northeast Vermont. As a puppeteer with the Bread and Puppet Theater for decades, she performed in cities and towns throughout the United States and internationally.
In 2010, Dolan created The Museum of Everyday Life, an ongoing multifaceted museum experiment that’s goal is a slow-motion cataloging of life via ordinary objects of no monetary value, yet immense consequence. She is a specialist in picture-story performance (cantastoria) and the co-founder of Banners and Cranks, the first international American festival devoted to this performance form, which occurs annually in rotating venues.
The tour is free and begins at 11 AM. Afterwards, join us for an artist talk with Didier William.
