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Installation Art
9:20 am
Mon December 17, 2012

Theaster Gates' Design District Project Explores The Meaning Of The Hand-Made

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Credit Elaine Chen / WLRN
The artist's view: making things like these clay bowls is a 'very human, very spiritual act.'
Credit Elaine Chen / WLRN
Matthew Dercole uses a mold to make bricks.
Credit Elaine Chen / WLRN
Yoko Fukuta is shaping a bowl.
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Pei-Hsuan Wang creates while a woman reads to her and the other workers.
Credit Elaine Chen / WLRN
These plans grace the walls.
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Detailed model for creating a bowl to hold ox tails.
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The Locust Projects exhibition space in Miami's Design District is a showcase for experimental, contemporary art, and this week, it's featuring an installation by Theaster Gates called Soul Manufacturing Corporation.  The piece asks us to consider the value of things made by hand.  

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