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Archaeology Magazine: “Experiential Archaeology Class Recreates Ancient Ceramics”

Archaeology Magazine: “Experiential Archaeology Class Recreates Ancient Ceramics”

Featured, on October 7, 2015, on the homepage of Archaeology Magazine, the Museums and Society’s Spring 2015 course makes headlines once again! In Spring 2015, Sanchita Balachandran, the Archaeological Museum’s Curator/Conservator, taught an interactive, hands on course titled Recreating Ancient Greek Ceramics (AS.389.335). In collaboration with expert ceramics artists, including Matthew Hyleck and Cami Ascher at […]

Trending on Instagram…

Trending on Instagram…

Footlocker, Thomas Teurlai’s solo American debut, was curated by M&S senior Joseph Shaikewitz as a Capstone project in Museums and Society and supported by an Arts Innovation Grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Popular art blog Hyperallergic featured the exhibition on Instagram. Click to learn more.

Students Learn to Curate Material Culture in the Digital Age

Museums and Society students are featured in the new edition of the Gazette. Click to read the article.

Surrealism at Mid-Century

Surrealism at Mid-Century

Students in Dr. Molly Warnock’s history of art class, Surrealism (AS.010.312), recently curated the exhibit, Surrealism at Mid-Century. The exhibition features journals produced between the lase 1930s and early 1950s in Paris, London, New York, and Mexico. The exhibit was held at the MSE Library, M-Level, from April to June. Read the article in the JHU Gazette.

Faculty Member’s Debut Book Explores the Art of the Bernward Gospels

Faculty Member’s Debut Book Explores the Art of the Bernward Gospels

Read about Assistant Director Jennifer Kingsley’s new book in Johns Hopkins Magazine.

Workin’ the Tease

Museums and society student Erin (Gloria) You recently participated in a two-semester project through MICA’s Exhibition Development Seminar (EDS) class, which resulted in an exhibition titled Workin’ the Tease: The Art of Baltimore’s Burlesque. The purpose of the show was to celebrate the renewal of Burlesque in Baltimore through the surge of Neo-Burlesque performers who have arrived […]

Museum Internships Give Johns Hopkins Students Hands-on Experience

Museum Internships Give Johns Hopkins Students Hands-on Experience

This summer, students in the Program in Museums and Society are interning at Christie’s and the Gagosian Gallery in New York, the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, and the Jewish Museum of Maryland and the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Read the article in The Gazette.

Report From the Field: Joseph

Thanks to the new Hall Grant to support a floating museum internship, Joseph Shaikewitz ’15 has spent the summer in the curatorial department and the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Philipps Collection in Washington, D.C. He reports: “I’ve been presented with incredible opportunities… [from doing] research on contemporary artists … [to […]

Report From the Field: Yonah

Supported by Museums and Society’s Mellon grant, History major Yonah Reback is interning at the Jewish Museum of Maryland this summer. He is working with staff on “an exciting new exhibition spotlighting the life of Mendes I. Cohen, one of Baltimore’s most fascinating Jewish characters. Part ‘Forrest Gump,’ part ‘Indiana Jones,’ Mendes Cohen defended Fort […]

Report From the Field: Christie

Christie Young Smith ’13 and Grace Golden ’16 are interning at the Freer and Sackler galleries this summer, continuing their work on an exhibit of Turkish Photographer Ara Güler. Christie and Grace took the Mellon-funded course Museums and Society developed in partnership with the Smithsonian this Spring 2013. Grace writes about her experience: “So far, […]