6 chazen museum of art exhibitions
Chazen Museum Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student
April 28 – June 25 , 2017
Oscar F . and Louise Greiner Mayer Gallery
Samurai : The Way of the Warrior
Spring – Summer 2017
Pleasant T . Rowland Galleries
The 2017 Chazen Museum Prize to an Outstanding MFA Student winner is Alex Orellanos . The prize is offered by the Museum in collaboration with the art department ; an outside juror selects the winner . This year ’ s juror is curator , author , and lecturer Brooke Davis Anderson , the executive director of Prospect New Orleans . Anderson held positions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art , American Folk Art Museum , and other galleries and universities before joining Prospect New Orleans in 2013 . Prospect New Orleans is a citywide triennial of international contemporary art that presents the work of diverse local , national , and international artists in unique and culturally exceptional venues .
This exhibition includes over ninety works from the collection of the Museo Stibbert in Florence , Italy , one of the most important collections of Japanese arms and armor outside of Japan . Revealing how the moral , cultural , and aesthetic codes of the military class were manifested in the styles and craftsmanship of Japanese artisans , the objects on display include armor , lacquered objects , helmets , swords , sword guards , saddles , stirrups , arrows , quivers , and bows . They reflect the identity , taste , and status of individual owners , and together provide a novel perspective on one of the great antiquarian assemblages of nineteenth-century Europe .
Myochin Yasutsugu (?) ( Japanese ), Suit of Armor , mid-18th century , steel , shakudo , gilded copper , brass , horn , lacquer , silk , silk brocade , Museo Stibbert , Firenze