Opening Reception: Cabinet of Shadows | Artlab Gallery
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Cabinet of Shadows: The Reliquary for Lost Animals
February 25 - March 10, 2016
OPENING Reception: Thursday Feb. 25, 5-7PM
Cabinet of Shadows looks at the relationship between humans and famous animals. Three animals are the focus of the exhibition: Jumbo, a circus elephant who entertained thousands of people before dying in a train crash in St. Thomas Ontario; Jonah the Whale, an embalmed blue whale who was part of an exhibition that traveled through England in a truck in the 1950s; and Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who drew crowds to her enclosure at the Cincinnati zoo before she died in 1914.