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 […]
Exhibition Type: Off-Campus
Reinstalling American Art
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 […]
A Perfect Power: Motherhood and African Art
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 […]
Museum of the Ironworker Exhibits in Catoctin Furnace
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, […]
1939: Exhibiting Black Art at the BMA
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 […]
Why We Work
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 […]
To Colour Well
Why do we catalogue collections? What goes into writing a catalogue? In the Fall of 2016, students in Virginia Anderson’s seminar on collecting (AS.389.358) responded to these questions. Each student wrote a catalogue essay on a group of eight to ten works of modern and contemporary art, drawn from Connie Caplan’s important Baltimore-area collection. […]
Book Arts Baltimore
Book Arts Baltimore (BAB) is an informal partnership among several Baltimore-area institutions supporting a common goal: celebrating artists’ books and book arts. Launched by M&S and the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) in 2013 in anticipation of a related exhibition at the BMA (Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists Books), it was intended to […]
BMA Off the Shelf
Stemming from Spring 2016 course, AS.389.354 Paper Museums: Exhibiting Artists’ Books at the Baltimore Museum of Art, students from JHU, Loyola, and MICA, alongside BMA staff, worked with the BMA collection of artists’ books to develop an exhibition of more than 100 books and prints by more than 50 renowned artists. Related articles: The Hub JHU […]
Zoo Activity Booklet for Conservation Education
In Spring 2016, undergraduates in Lori Finkelstein’s Zoos and Communities worked in partnership with elementary school students enrolled in the STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools (SABES) program to create a summer activity booklet for conservation education. Zoos and Communities examines zoos and living collections from historical and contemporary perspectives, taking into account the potentially conflicting role of zoos as […]