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The Mingei International Museum is a non-profit public institution in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, that collects, conserves and exhibits folk art, craft and design. The museum was founded in 1974, and its building opened in 1978. [ 1 ]
Mingei International Museum reveals the beauty of use in folk art, craft and design from all eras and cultures of the world. The word mingei, meaning 'art of the people,' was coined by the Japanese scholar Sōetsu Yanagi by combining the Japanese words for all people (min) and art (gei). Yanagi's teachings awakened people to the essential need ...
Nikigator Artist Niki de Saint Phalle Year 2000 (2000) Medium Clay tiles, glass, stone Subject Alligator Location Mingei International Museum, San Diego Coordinates 32°43′52″N 117°9′4″W / 32.73111°N 117.15111°W / 32.73111; -117.15111 Website mingei.org Nikigator is an outdoor sculpture by the Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle, created in 2000 in San Diego ...
This is a list of museums in San Diego County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Lechler Museum, Piru, closed in 2000 and contents auctioned [39] interview with owner; Max Factor Museum, Los Angeles, closed in 1996, information, museum about Max Factor and movie make-up history; building now houses the Hollywood Museum; Mingei International Museum, Escondido location closed in June 2010 [40] Movieland Wax Museum
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In 1978, Longenecker became the museum director. [5] [2] Longenecker also oversaw the architectural design and the development of the Mingei International Museum at a new facility located at Plaza Dr Panama in Balboa Park in San Diego, which opened in August 1996. It is a 41,000 square-foot facility. [5]
A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S. Tompkins Garnet, the first Black female principal in NYC.