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, […]
Exhibition Type: Mellon Foundation
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 […]
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 […]
What is Happening?
“What is Happening?” was an interactive three-part performance art series sponsored by an Andrew W. Mellon Arts Innovation Grant and produced by Museums and Society students Sarah Braver and Helena Arose for 2016-17. Part one, on December 8, 2016, located outdoors in front of Mudd Hall, “Climate Change: Baltimore and the Environment” was conducted in partnership with MICA student Yurie […]
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 […]
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 […]
Foot Locker
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. The show is up at the Copycat Building through March 22, […]
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