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| | Cameron Art Museum: “Fannin’ the Heat Away: A Celebration of the Art and Social History of the Handheld Church Fan” |  | | Date: | Thursday, July 29, 2010 | | Title: | Cameron Art Museum: “Fannin’ the Heat Away: A Celebration of the Art and Social History of the Handheld Church Fan” | | Description: | William McNeill celebrates a vanishing relic of Americana: the handheld church fan. McNeill uses a sampling from his extensive collection of vintage church fans to explore how fans have served as devotional icons, and illustrates their role in advertising and in the kitsch visual culture of the American South. The fans trigger brief anecdotes that capture the flavor of the 1950s congregation of the country church of his Bladen County youth. Offering fragments of a vanished world, this informative and entertaining program resurrects a time gone by – a warmer and more innocent time before the cooling breezes of air conditioning. This project is made possible by a grant from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. | | Times: | 7:00PM - 10:00PM |
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