In November 2023, over 130 local students from campuses across the region enjoyed the first ever College Night at the BMA, focused on Making her Mark. The event was designed, promoted, and hosted by students in Jennifer P. Kingsley’s course Museum Education for Today’s Audiences. Students spent the semester investigating informal learning models, museum visitor motivations […]
Museums and Society Director Jennifer Kingsley and Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art Kevin Tervala collaborated in summer 2022 to reinterpret the museum’s so-called Antioch mosaics. These mosaics date from the first through the sixth century. Archaeologists excavated and lifted them from Harbiye (Daphne) and Antakya (Antioch) during the 1930s, when French authorities governed […]
Students enrolled in Heidi Herr’s 2022 Intersession course took a deep dive into a new university collection of romance comic books. Popular from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, romance comic books introduced teenagers to the joys and heartache of love. Featuring advice columns, fashion spreads, and allegedly true stories of romance, teenagers could be […]
Working in collaboration with BMA Curator Virginia Anderson students in Kingsley’s Spring 2020 course Encountering American Art developed new curatorial strategies for more inclusive permanent collection displays at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Their research and ideas informed the reinstallation of the modern American art galleries that opened in summer 2022. In Spring 2023 students […]
Out In The Open is a collective oral histories project developed by Johns Hopkins University students through Joseph Plaster’s spring 2022 course Queer Oral History (AS.389.348). Johns Hopkins University students learned how to conduct oral history interviews under the instruction of Winston Tabb Special Collections Director Dr. Joseph Plaster. Engaging critically with modern queer and […]
Students in Jennifer Kingsley’s Spring 2019 Curatorial Seminar partnered with Kevin Tervala, Associate Curator of African Art at the BMA to develop a feminist approach to curating African Art for the BMA’s 2020 Vision, a year focused on women-identifying persons in honor of the anniversary of women’s suffrage. From monumental headdresses of elderly mothers to […]
In August of 2017, EAC Archaeology, Inc. entered into a sub-award agreement with Johns Hopkins University (JHU) under the project entitled “Scholarly Inquiry, Public Outreach: The Program in Museums and Society at JHU” funded under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Elizabeth Comer, Jane Seiter, and Robert Wanner, staff members from EAC Archaeology, […]
In 1939, the BMA presented one of the first major exhibitions in the U.S. to feature African American artists. Contemporary Negro Art (CNA), served “as a declaration of principles as to what art should be in a democracy and as a gauge of how far in this particular province we have gone and may need […]
Students in Elizabeth Maloney’s Fall 2017 course, AS.389.374 Museum Lab: Creating Participatory Spaces at the Baltimore Museum of Industry created an interactive exhibition that explores the personal side of work, asking: why do we work? what is our work? how does it shape us?(2018-2019). The exhibition also features portraits of Baltimoreans in their workplaces, juxtaposing contemporary […]
Housing Our Story (PIs: Jennifer Kingsley, Shani Mott, N.D.B. Connolly) engages in the practical ethics of building an archive about African-American staff and contract workers at the Johns Hopkins University. Undergraduates participate as student researchers as well as in courses. Archivists nobly aim to preserve the memory of the world, yet historically archives institutionalize the choices […]