Museum Studies Stories
Annalise Ashman '24
鈥淚 knew that something I wanted in a community was to feel part of something bigger than myself, and that鈥檚 here at 今日吃瓜.鈥
New Year, New Perspectives: Helen Christ '24
"Don鈥檛 forget that 今日吃瓜 is located in a unique place where you can explore new things and widen your horizons in ways you may not expect."
360掳: Minerals, Museums, and Western Colonialism
This 360 will examine that question in the context of 今日吃瓜鈥檚 mineral collection: more than 40,000 specimens, most of which were sampled in the mid- to late-19th century.
360掳: Paradigms of Revival
In a fundamentally decolonial spirit, this course cluster examines the ways colonialism has contained, collected, captured, and commodified Blackness, a practice that circulates objectified images of the peoples, cultures, and cultural objects of Africa and the African Diaspora.
360掳: Biennials and Conservation
Students in this 360掳 will engage a deeper history of Contemporary Art鈥攐ne that considers the ways in which an artwork's exhibition and its care structure its meaning in complex ways.
360掳: Exhibiting Modern Art
This 360掳 will consider differences in addressing academy and community as audiences, and bring together theoretical and practical aspects of art history, art criticism, art exhibition, and art education.
360掳: Mirroring the Self
Participants will study the history and theories of self-portraiture, self-representation, and self-fashioning in cultures around the globe from antiquity to the present.