Mathers Museum Exhibit-- A World of His Own: The Uncommon Artistry of Chester Cornett

Nov 10, 2009 (Tuesday)
Indiana University - Bloomington
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
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Celebrates the creativity and craftsmanship of Chester Cornett (1913-1981), a gifted chairmaker who hailed from the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. The exhibit, curated by James Seaver, a graduate student in IU's Department of History, is the first museum retrospective on Cornett's work, and capitalizes upon furniture, tools, and other objects in the Mathers Museum's collections to explore the chairmaker's unique folk aesthetic.
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