Undergraduates in the spring Museum Object class, led by Dr. Kristin Dowell, invite you to the opening of their exhibition exploring the art, history, and culture of Polynesian textiles created by Samoan and Tongan women. The student-curated show features tapa cloth and other woven art work from the FSU Museum of Fine Arts and The Textile and Apparel Historic Costume Collection in the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship.  In connection with the exhibition, on Wednesday, April 10 the class will host a screening of Taualuga, a documentary directed by Lisa Taouma.

Exhibition runs through April 26, Tuesdays–Fridays from 10 am to 4 pm in the WJB Gallery.

Digital technologies have greatly enhanced the documentation, research, and discussion of cultural heritage. Likewise, new media and visualization techniques have fundamentally changed the depth and scope of how information is disseminated and raised ethical and philosophical issues concerning authenticity, representation, reproducibility, preservation, and education that impact policy, stakeholders, and popular knowledge. This symposium explores relationships between time, space, and technology in cultural heritage today and how new technologies are and can be used in the diffusion of research and the presentation of cultural heritage and its context.

Artists and scholars from seven universities will examine how digital technologies can be used to develop novel ways of sharing cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, with a broader public via museums, websites, and 3D printing, among other avenues of dissemination. 

Sessions will take place throughout the day on Saturday, April 6 in 2004 WJB; see our site for a complete list of speakers and titles.