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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release

February/15/2010 Contact:
Emily Cheek
Gallery Coordinator
214.953.1212
The MAC

The McKinney Avenue

Contemporary and artist Muriel
Hasbun invite the public for
Art Talk & Workshop: barquitos de papel and other stories
March 6 @ 4 pm
DALLAS, TEXAS - February 15, 2010 -
Please join artist Muriel Hasbun and The MAC on March 6th at 4: PM at The McKinney
Avenue Contemporary for an Art Talk & Workshop. In conjunction with her opening
exhibition at The MAC, "Muriel Hasbun : barquitos de papel and other stories, Hasbun
and the MAC invite all participants to bring photocopies of family photos, letters from
home, documents and other memorabilia to make paper boats to add to the installation and
to the artist's growing collective archive.

Muriel Hasbun began the barquitos de papel collective archive as a Fulbright Scholar in El
Salvador in 2006. By using the imagery of folded paper origami boats as part of barquitos
de papel / paper boats, Hasbun creates an interactive space and a metaphor for cultural and
personal exchange.

After the workshop, participants are invited to stay and join The MAC at the opening
reception for all three exhibitions, Sandow Birk: "Depravities of War" in the MAC's Large
Gallery,Muriel Hasbun: "barquitos de papel and other stories" in the Square Gallery,
Sirajski and Jessica Benjamin: "of Wrath and Proxy Wars" in the MAC's New Works
Space, all on view from March 6 through April 3.

Muriel Hasbun has exhibited her photo-based work at the American University Museum (2008),
NYU's Hemispheric Institute's "Encuentro" at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires
(2007); the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego (2007); Houston's FotoFest (2006), the
Corcoran Gallery of Art (2004); the 50th Venice Biennale (2003); the Centro de la Imagen in
Mexico City (1999); and at the 29ème Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles
(1998). Her photographs are in numerous private and public collections, including the Art
Museum of the Americas, Lehigh University,the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the
Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Hasbun is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of
Photography at the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, D.C..

Image below: Paper boats instructions

Credits: courtesy of the artist and The MAC

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presentation of art in all disciplines. It supports the emerging and established artist roll in society
providing a forum for critical dialogue with their audiences. This relationship is cultivated through
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Interviews and images related to this exhibition are available upon request.
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Emily Cheek
McKinney Avenue Contemporary
3120 McKinney Ave. Dallas, TX 75204
+1.214.953.1212
www.the-mac.org
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