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The Bohlen collection presents an astonishing range of contemporary artworks fashioned from wood and includes works that explores traditional and non-traditional vessel forms as well as works that are more purely sculptural. The outstanding objects that make up the Fusfeld collection are both geographically and historically wide-ranging, including work by early nineteenth-century itinerant folk portraitists as well as late twentieth-century sculpture and painting by \u201coutsider\u201d\u009d artists from the American South, Midwest, and Northeast.", "occurrence_notes":null, "guid":"3293-916095@events.umich.edu", "permalink":"http:\/\/events.umich.edu\/event\/3293", "building_id":"1000151", "building_name":"Museum of Art", "campus_maps_id":"11", "room":"", "location_name":"Museum of Art", "has_livestream":0, "cost":"", "tags":["visual arts"], "website":"http:\/\/www.umma.umich.edu", "sponsors":[ { "group_name":"University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)", "group_id":"1177", "website":"http:\/\/www.umma.umich.edu\/" } ], "image_url":"", "styled_images":{ "event_thumb":"", "event_large":"", "event_large_2x":"", "event_large_lightbox":"", "group_thumb":"", "group_thumb_square":"", "group_large":"", "group_large_lightbox":"", "event_large_crop":"", "event_list":"", "event_list_2x":"", "event_grid":"", "event_grid_2x":"", "event_feature_large":"", "event_feature_thumb":"" }, "occurrence_count":69, "first_occurrence":916084 } , "3292-913245": { "datetime_modified":"20101111T175654", "datetime_start":"20100924T100000", "datetime_end":"", "has_end_time":0, "date_start":"2010-09-24", "date_end":"", "time_start":"10:00:00", "time_end":"", "time_zone":"America\/Detroit", "event_title":"UMMA Projects: Jakob Kolding", "occurrence_title":"", "combined_title":"UMMA Projects: Jakob Kolding", "event_subtitle":"", "event_type":"Exhibition", "event_type_id":"7", "description":"UMMA is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in a North American museum of Berlin- based artist Jakob Kolding. 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