The Somerville Museum reopens to the public Thursday after several months of construction with “The Art of the Festival,” an exhibition organized by Bruce McCoy Owens as part of the museum’s Community Curator Program, in which someone is selected to collaborate with museum staff to bring a concept to life.
Owens is a photographer and an associate professor emeritus of anthropology at Wheaton College in Norton. He has done research in Nepal since 1982, photographing religious festivities and sacred spaces largely in the Kathmandu Valley. He has hosted several exhibitions of his photography in Nepal and elsewhere as what he calls “a means of reciprocating the generosity” of the communities he works with.
This show at the Somerville Museum is the first in the United States being shown at a scale as large as his Nepal exhibitions.
One of the most exciting parts is that murals by the Somerville Nepali artist Imagine will be on view for the first time at the museum’s entrance. The murals, titled “Welcome to All,” are intended to celebrate the city’s vibrant Nepali community.
As part of the exhibition’s programming, a Nepali rock concert called “Somerville Jatra” is set for 4 p.m. Feb. 9 at Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Spring Hill.
A reopening celebration and exhibition reception is 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday; admission is $8.
“The Art of the Festival” through March 29 at at the Somerville Museum, 1 Westwood Road, in the Spring Hill neighborhood.
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