This event is part of 7000 Fragments: Maya Murals from San Bartolo, Guatemala, an exhibition at the Tang Teaching Museum, April 21-28, 2018, Payne Room.
7000 Fragments will host archaeologists for a Maya Mural Seminar. This event provides an extraordinary opportunity to experience the rich and complex imagery of the paintings and panelists will present new findings about the San Bartolo mural narrative.
Panelists for the “Maya Mural Seminar” include: Heather Hurst, Skidmore College; Edwin Román Ramirez, Pacunam, Guatemala; William Saturno, San Bartolo-Xultun Regional Archaeological Project; David Stuart, University of Texas at Austin; Karl Taube, University of California, Riverside.
In 2001, ancient Maya murals were discovered at a previously unknown site in a remote tropical jungle of Guatemala. The San Bartolo murals (c. 100 BCE) are among the most important Maya artifacts ever found. The beauty and age of the ancient painting that emerged from beneath meters of rock and construction fill surprised scholars and re-wrote what we know of Maya kings, artists, and scribes. The murals visually narrate the creation of the world, depicting a painted landscape of zoomorphic serpents and anthropomorphic caves. However, the in situ murals buried within the pyramid are only part of the story: the site once contained many more paintings, but these artworks were intentionally broken into fragments and concealed by the Maya. At the culmination of fifteen years of fieldwork, laboratory analysis and art conservation, 7000 Fragments presents a life-size model of the mural chamber and new findings from the reassembled fragments.
This is also a featured event of the CLTL/ODSP Sponsored Faculty Residency for spring 2018. This innovative residency affords Skidmore faculty members the opportunity to propose residency programming that best relates to their research and/or creative projects with the aim to explore new possibilities for connectivity and collaboration with students, faculty, and the larger community.
This event is free and open to the public For more information click here.