Students in Jennifer Kingsley’s Spring 2017 class “Collections Remix” mined JHU collections for materials that reflect the experiences of African Americans. Students Madelena Brancati and Nia Josiah worked with a newly acquired artwork by Baltimore artist and MacArthur genius award winner Joyce J. Scott, identifying a site on campus for the sculpture, developing an installation […]
Students in Jennifer Kingsley’s Spring 2017 course “Collections Remix” mined archival, literary and cultural collections of the Johns Hopkins University for materials that reflect the experiences of African-Americans. One student team, Monika Borkovic and Lorna Henson, worked with Sheridan Libraries’ African American Real Photo Postcards Collection. Real photo postcards are photographs printed directly onto postcard […]
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 (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?” 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 […]
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 […]
Drawing from oral histories and archival materials, Homewood Histories builds on the Sense of Place project to expand and diversify the stories of the people who have lived and worked on the site of today’s Homewood campus from the days it was a farm up to the present. The Archaeology of Knowledge tour digs into the stuff that populates artist Mark Dion’s cabinet […]
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 […]
In 1939, Johns Hopkins alumnus Alfred Jenkins Shriver died, leaving funds for a lecture hall to be decorated with a set of murals. Shriver’s directives for the murals were very precise and required significant help from the university registrar, Irene Davis, who assisted painter Leon Kroll by gathering physical descriptions, photographs, and costumes to portray the individuals named […]
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 […]