[SOA] PSA: Lloyd Library and Museum receives Ohio Arts Council Grant

[Anna Heran]

**Please excuse cross postings **

 

 

 Lloyd Library and Museum - www.lloydlibrary.org
Media Contact: Anna Heran, Outreach Coordinator
513-721-3707, aheran at lloydlibrary.org
917 Plum St. | Cincinnati, OH 45202

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LLOYD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ANNOUNCES AWARD OF AN OAC/NEA GRANT FOR ITS
PROJECT: WOUNDED HOME

Wounded Home - now through January 20, 2014

 

Cincinnati, OH - August 12, 2013: The Lloyd Library and Museum is
pleased to announce that it is the recipient of a Project Grant from the
Ohio Arts Council, a grant made possible through a grant to OAC by the
National Endowment for the Arts.  This grant went to support the
installation of the Lloyd's ambitious and visionary exhibition, Wounded
Home, a commemoration of the Civil War and its impact on the home front.


 

  

 

Combining text and images from the Lloyd Library and Museum's (
www.lloydlibrary.org) collection of Civil War resources with  their own
aesthetic vision, visual artists Mary Jo Bole, Deborah Brod, Jenny Fine,
Celene Hawkins, Saad Ghosn, Kate Kern and Alice Pixley Young, have
worked together to  create a poignant and disturbing room within a room
in the Lloyd's gallery space, the Wounded Home.  Pieces in the
installation include jarring views of what one might have seen right
outside a window, from a field of tents to a cemetery filled with rows
of the dead.  Once in the interior space, wallpaper filled with both
iconic and disturbing images reminds us of the horrors of the war.  A
chandelier provides a look at the economic impetus behind the
conflagration, and table, settee, and portraits bring a painful reminder
of the walking wounded who made it home and had to continue their lives
in whatever fashion was possible.  A fireplace burns with images of
Cincinnati, of the first mechanized/factory-based war, and of the horror
and uncertainty of war.  Finally, a hidden room engages viewers in the
importance, especially in Cincinnati, of the Ohio River, what it meant
to be on the edge of the North and South.  The Lloyd website provides a
portal for viewing images from the exhibition, learning about the
artists and their individual contributions, and what the exhibition
means to the Lloyd Library. 
http://www.lloydlibrary.org/exhibits/woundedhome.html 

 

About the Lloyd: The Lloyd Library and Museum, a 501(c)3 not-for-profit
organization, is a local and regional cultural treasure, which began in
the 19th century as a research library for Lloyd Brothers Pharmacists,
Inc., one of the leading pharmaceutical companies of the period.  Our
mission is to collect and maintain a library of botanical, medical,
pharmaceutical, and scientific books and periodicals, and works of
allied sciences that serve the scientific research community, as well as
constituents of the general public, through library services and
programming that bring science, art, and history to life.  It is open
Monday-Friday, 8:30-4:00, and 1st and 3rd Saturdays, 9:00-4:00.  For
more information, visit the Lloyd website at www.lloydlibrary.org.

 

 

Anna K. Heran

Exhibits Curator & Education/Outreach Coordinator

Lloyd Library and Museum

917 Plum Street

Cincinnati, OH 45202

513-721-3707

www.lloydlibrary.org

Bringing Science, Art, and History to Life, Because the Past is the Path
to the Future

 

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