Vanishing Points\u202f<\/span><\/span>is\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>long<\/span><\/span>-term photography<\/span><\/span>\u00a0project that focuses on significant sites of Indigenous American presence<\/span><\/span>,\u202f<\/span><\/span>including sacred landforms, earthworks, documented archaeological sites and contested battlegrounds.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n View a brief guided tour of the exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n Exhibition Statement<\/a><\/p>\n February 22 – March 12, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery, inside the Visual Arts Center<\/p>\n Watch a recording of the virtual reception for Vanishing Points<\/a><\/p>\n Short on time? Just watch Michael Sherwin’s artist talk.<\/a><\/p>\n Michael Sherwin<\/a>\u00a0is a multimedia artist based in the Appalachian Mountains of northern West Virginia. He has won numerous grants and awards. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art in the School of Art and Design at West Virginia University.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Vanishing Points\u202f<\/span><\/span>is\u00a0<\/span><\/span>a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>long<\/span><\/span>-term photography<\/span><\/span>\u00a0project that focuses on significant sites of Indigenous American presence<\/span><\/span>,\u202f<\/span><\/span>including sacred landforms, earthworks, documented archaeological sites and contested battlegrounds. The book combines beautiful large format landscape\u00a0<\/span><\/span>images<\/span><\/span>\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span><\/span>smaller still\u00a0<\/span><\/span>lifes<\/span><\/span>\u00a0of artifacts collected at the sites<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The<\/span><\/span>\u00a0combination of<\/span><\/span>\u00a0photographs presented in this book<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>operate as<\/span><\/span>\u00a0literal and metaphorical vanishing points<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>T<\/span><\/span>he<\/span><\/span>y<\/span><\/span>\u00a0reflect on the monuments modern culture will leave behind and what\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>archeological evidence of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>our<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>civilization will reveal about our time on earth.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Michael is in the final stages of publishing his first monograph on the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Vanishing Points<\/span><\/span>\u00a0project with Germany-based publisher,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Kehrer<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Verlag<\/span><\/span>, one of the leading publishers of fine art photography in the world<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> The book will be available in the United States May 4, 2021. Available for pre-order.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exhibition Details Vanishing Points\u202fis\u00a0a\u00a0long-term photography\u00a0project that focuses on significant sites of Indigenous American presence,\u202fincluding sacred landforms, earthworks, documented archaeological sites and contested battlegrounds. View a brief guided tour of the exhibition Exhibition Statement February 22 – March 12, 2021 Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery, inside the Visual Arts Center Watch a recording of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"parent":445,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1088","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1088\/revisions\/1340"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Artist Information<\/h2>\n
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