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ET 2009 (Photos by Kate Hennessy) (15).jpg

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Kate Hennessy

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Installation view of Scott Webel and Jen Webel's House Cats: A Traveling Display of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

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ET 2009 (Photos by Kate Hennessy) (15).jpg

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Scott Webel and Jen Webel's House Cats: A Traveling Display of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

House Cats: A Traveling Display of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

Visitors to the Museum of Ephemerata in Austin, Texas, often tell us how meeting our cats is an important part of touring our in-home Dime Museum. The cats greet visitors, do tricks, and model displays. “House Cats” brings our furry co-curators out to meet the world. The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata was founded in 1921 by Madame Mercury Curie and Rolls Joyce Jr. The latter was born Rasputin Zaplatynska, great granduncle to Scott Webel, current curator with Jen Webel. This curiosity museum served as a “zoo for endangered species of collection” like collections of saintly relics, Wunderkammern, and...

Ethnographic Terminalia: Philadelphia

Ethnographic Terminalia first exhibition was a group exhibition of installation works that showed at the Ice Box gallery(Crane Arts, Philadelphia) in December 2009. The Ice Box is billed as one of Philadelphia’s largest art venues.