Dreaming in Color: Aboriginal Art From Balgo September 12, 2007

The exhibition includes 45 paintings, photographs and extensive wall text. The works are in the Kluge-Ruhe Collection at the University of Virginia. The Collection, 1600 paintings, sculptures and artifacts, and one of the finest outside Australia, was established to promote learning about Aboriginal arts and culture through a program of collection management, exhibitions, education, research and publication. Contemporary painting from Balgo, a western desert region, is adapted from traditional mark-making practices in sand drawing and painting, and body and sacred object painting.