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The Museum of Arts and Design (“MAD”) explores the blur zone between art, design, and craft today. Accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1991, MAD focuses on contemporary creativity and the ways in which artists and designers from around the world transform materials through processes ranging from the artisanal to the digital.

Exhibits

Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3

This is the third and last installment of the landmark Changing Hands series, which explores the fusion of traditional and contemporary aesthetics, themes and processes in the contemporary Native art of North America. The first two installments highlighted the work of Native artists from West of the Mississippi, the Southwest, British Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii, this concluding installment will features artists from the Atlantic Seabord. Jimmy Duram, Joel Queen, and Shan Goshorn will be among the established and emerging artists presented.

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