The Literary Archive blog is the product of Gabrielle Dean’s teaching in Museums and Society and English. In the spring 2015 version of the class, student contributors focused on three American modernist prose writers with roots in Baltimore: Dashiell Hammett, H. L. Mencken, and Gertrude Stein. In the 2012 version of the course, students similarly […]
Exhibition Type: On-Campus
JUBILEE: Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Culture in Papal Rome, 1500 – 1675
Senior, and Museums & Society student, Taylor Alessio curated, “JUBILEE: Roman Catholic Pilgrimage Culture in Papal Rome, 1500 – 1675,” a rare book exhibition featuring beautifully illustrated books from the Italian Renaissance.” Taylor will be giving a talk about the exhibition at noon on Friday, April 29, 2016 at the Milton S. Eisenhower Library’s M-Level […]
Museums and Social Responsibility
During the Spring 2016 course AS.389.375, students explored the ways in which museums engage with local communities and asked: Do museums have a social responsibility? What roles should they play in and with their communities? Should they be agents of social change or social justice? Students visited local museums and cultural organizations, examined case studies […]
Death of History: Witnessing Heritage Destruction in Syria and Iraq
Cultural heritage is the physical manifestation of a people’s history and forms a significant part of their identity. Unfortunately, the destruction of that heritage has become an ongoing part of the conflict in Syria and Iraq. With the rise of ISIS and the increase of political instability, important cultural sites and irreplaceable collections are now […]
Conversations with the Carrolls
Conversations with the Carrolls, a student-run living history performance at the Homewood Museum, tells the story of the entangled lives of the Carroll family and the enslaved men, women and children who labored for them in the 1800s. Performance dates and times:7 p.m. on Friday, April 1,2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 2,2 p.m. with […]
GhostFood
Along with staff of The Contemporary, a nomadic museum in Baltimore, students in this fall’s GhostFoodcourse brought the futuristic food truck of Brooklyn-based artists Miriam Simun to campus on Monday, October 5. Around 100 students explored the “post-extinction taste experiences” devised by Simun to call attention to the impact of climate change on the global […]
Frida Kahlo’s Indigenous Identity
Ancient objects that appear in Frida Kahlo’s (1907-1954) paintings have rarely been exhibited alongside her work. Yet, by her own account, ancient art was instrumental in her efforts to define herself and her national identity. M&S student Alison Tretter’s Capstone exhibition, “Frida Kahlo’s Indigenous Identity: Ancient Ceramics in Modern Art” compares four objects from the […]
Making a Museum: The Peale Family in Early Baltimore
Charles Willson Peale, his sons, nieces and nephew were artists and naturalists whose portraits, miniatures, still lifes and silhouettes provide an eloquent and detailed chronicle of the most notable people and events of the republic’s early history. In addition to a selection of the family’s Baltimore-related artwork, this focus exhibition explores the origins and continued […]
Recreating Ancient Greek Ceramics
This hands-on course in experimental archaeology brings together undergraduate and graduate students across disciplines to study the making of Athenian vases. Students work closely with expert ceramics artists, and in consultation with art historians, archaeologists, art conservators, and materials scientists to recreate Greek manufacturing processes. Explore Further The Hub Archaeology Magazine