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Thirty years ago, in January of 1989, Michigan Native artwork and pottery¹ took a journey to the Soviet² Union. An exhibition was held at an Art Institute in St. Petersburg.

Today on Stateside, we chatted with Sandra Clark, director of the Michigan History Center, and Frank Ettawageshik, a member of the Little Traverse Bands of Odawa. We talked with our guests about Michigan Native American Art and its contribution to an Exhibition in the Soviet Union.

This exhibition was arranged by Rebecca Matlock, wife of the U.S ambassador to the Soviet Union, and was held open to the public within the embassy in Moscow. Ettawageshik was accompanied by three other artists, Edith Bondie, Michele Gauthier, and Sally Thielen who traveled across the world bringing their artwork as gifts to give the Russian people.

Ettawageshik brought his woodland Indian pottery that mimicked³ the same process his ancestors used to make pottery 500 hundred years ago. His pottery, as well as the work of other artists, which included a pen and ink drawing, basketry, a clay mask, and quill⁴ box were donated to Russia.

Clark says this type of cultural exchange wasn't uncommon⁵ during the Cold War.

If you look back, throughout the Cold War, we were sending artists, musicians, theater groups to communist countries, and bringing people to our country with this idea that culture is something we have in common, Clark said.

Listen above for details on the four Michigan Artists who exhibited unique Native American pieces in Russia, the power of art, and how art has been used as a means to foster relationships for many centuries.

1 pottery   

n.陶器，陶器场

参考例句：

• My sister likes to learn art pottery in her spare time.我妹妹喜欢在空余时间学习陶艺。
• The pottery was left to bake in the hot sun.陶器放在外面让炎热的太阳烘晒焙干。

2 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

3 mimicked   

v.（尤指为了逗乐而）模仿( mimic的过去式和过去分词 )；酷似

参考例句：

• He mimicked her upper-class accent. 他模仿她那上流社会的腔调。 来自辞典例句
• The boy mimicked his father's voice and set everyone off laughing. 男孩模仿他父亲的嗓音，使大家都大笑起来。 来自辞典例句

4 quill   

n.羽毛管；v.给（织物或衣服）作皱褶

参考例句：

• He wrote with a quill.他用羽毛笔写字。
• She dipped a quill in ink,and then began to write.她将羽毛笔在墨水里蘸了一下，随后开始书写。

5 uncommon   

adj.罕见的，非凡的，不平常的

参考例句：

• Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.这些看法在30年前很常见。
• Phil has uncommon intelligence.菲尔智力超群。