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The installations rotate three times per year. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mintmuseum.org\/constellation_clt\/lydia-thompson-travelers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lydia Thompson: Travelers<\/a> <\/em>will be on view May 13 \u2013 September 4 in the museum\u2019s uptown facility.<\/p>\n<p>Trained as a ceramicist, Thompson is a mixed-media sculptor whose art explores \u201chow we imbue objects with meanings and power and how places\u2014both the landscape and the culture it contains\u2014define who we are,\u201d the museum\u2019s exhibition description states. \u201cAs part of her research, Lydia Thompson seeks to immerse herself in a region\u2019s art and architecture, teasing out its roots of color, line, and design.\u201d The resulting works \u201cdistinctly speak to her own history and heritage as an African American woman in the United States, while also linking to universal associations of place and culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson\u2019s work has been included in galleries, art centers, and museums such as the Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pennsylvania; Baltimore Clayworks; the Ohr O\u2019Keefe Museum in Biloxi, Mississippi; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft; Te Temauta Gallery in New Zealand; and Guldegaard in Denmark. She has completed public commissions for businesses, and her work is in private and public collections in North Carolina, Virginia, New Mexico, New Zealand, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The Mint Museum will hold an opening reception for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mintmuseum.org\/events\/constellation-clt-lydia-thompson-opening-celebration\/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lydia Thompson: Travelers<\/a><\/em> on May 13 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Thompson will speak about her work at 7:15 pm.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Art Lydia Thompson, former chair of the Department of Art &amp; Art History, is the new Constellation CLT artist at the Mint Museum of Art. Constellation CLT is a solo exhibition series that features work by local artists. The installations rotate three times per year. 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