MURFREESBORO — MTSU sociology and anthropology
professor William H. “Will” Leggett’s work is part of a new art exhibit opening
Tuesday, May 5, in the Rotunda Gallery of Murfreesboro’s City Hall, located at
111 W. Main St.
Leggett,
a cultural anthropologist who focuses his academic expertise on globalization, colonization,
economic anthropology and urban anthropology, is a 2013 Outstanding Teaching
Award recipient from the MTSU Foundation and a member of the advisory board for
MTSU’s Center for Popular Music and the university’s Institutional Review
Board.
He’s also
a gifted painter whose diverse art subjects include “cityscapes, portraits, and
landscapes that are dynamic, colorful and constructed in a style that speak of
interpretation of subject over feigned realism,” said Eric Snyder, chair of the
Murfreesboro City Hall Art Committee and director of MTSU’s Todd Art Gallery.
Leggett
is the author of “The Flexible
Imagination: At Work in the Transnational Corporate Offices of Jakarta, Indonesia,”
a behind-the-scenes ethnography examining the social interactions between
individuals from different cultural and national backgrounds working together
in some of Southeast Asia’s most notorious Fortune 500 corporations.
The
professor currently is researching the changing demographics in Middle
Tennessee, focusing on the challenges immigrants and refugees recently settled
in Rutherford County face in maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle.
Murfreesboro
photographers Vicky Taub and Sally Wright also are part of the new City Hall exhibit,
which will be on display through June 12.
Taub’s
work focuses on wildlife and nature, while Wright says her photos are “…a
rather eclectic collection of subjects.”
All
exhibits at Murfreesboro City Hall’s Rotunda Gallery are open to the public at
no charge. Exhibit hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. A free
public reception for the artists also is planned Friday, May 8, from 4:30 to 6
p.m.
You can
learn more about the exhibit at the Rotunda Gallery’s Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/RotundaArt.
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