{"id":24896,"date":"2017-10-05T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=24896"},"modified":"2017-10-05T02:17:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T07:17:13","slug":"austin-peay-state-universitys-the-new-gallery-presents-michi-meko-how-far-we-havent-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/10\/05\/austin-peay-state-universitys-the-new-gallery-presents-michi-meko-how-far-we-havent-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University’s The New Gallery presents “Michi Meko: How Far We Haven’t Come”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University\u2019s The New Gallery, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts and the APSU Department of Art + Design, presents \u201cMichi Meko: How Far We Haven\u2019t Come,\u201d <\/em>as part of the 2017-18 exhibition season.<\/p>\n

\"Michi<\/a>

Michi Meko<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cAt The New Gallery at Austin Peay State University, I am still thinking about space, but am shifting gears with the second exhibition of the season, \u2018Michi Meko: How Far We Haven\u2019t Come<\/em>,\u2019\u201d Michael Dickins, APSU director of galleries, said. \u201cUnlike the Jamey Grimes exhibition, this work is not a celebration of space, but an investigation of space by asking, \u2018How do you exist in public space when public space is a threat?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Dr. Anthony Morris, APSU associate professor of art history, \u201cMichi\u2019s work is an attempt to find a place for himself as a black man in 21st<\/sup> century American culture. He often uses the iconography of water, exploration, mapping and found objects in his work to express a loss of trust, safety, and independence in a world that perceives him as a threat, a criminal and identifies him first by his race and not his humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The exhibit opened October 2nd, at The New Gallery, located in the APSU Art + Design building, and it runs through October 27th. There will be a reception at noon on October 5th, with a gallery talk with Meko beginning at 12:30pm At 7:30pm, Meko will project select films and video onto the exterior of The New Gallery as part of Clarksville\u2019s First Thursday Art Crawl. All are welcome.<\/p>\n

Meko lives in Atlanta, Georgia, and has exhibited extensively throughout the Southeastern United States. For more on Meko and his work, visit: michimeko.com.<\/p>\n

The New Gallery is open from 9:00am \u2013 4:00pm, Monday \u2013 Friday, and it is closed on weekends and holidays. The gallery\u2019s hours also follow the University\u2019s academic calendar.<\/p>\n

For more information on this exhibition, which is free and open to the public, contact Dickins at dickinsm@apsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University\u2019s The New Gallery, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts and the APSU Department of Art + Design, presents \u201cMichi Meko: How Far We Haven\u2019t Come,\u201d as part of the 2017-18 exhibition season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[16056,23,30835,589,30841,31030,7841,262,825,1267,23700,30819],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6ty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24898,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24896\/revisions\/24898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}