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 […]
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 […]
A set of silver spoons, a Walloon sword, and a Japanese katana are among a collection of historical objects recently returned to Evergreen Museum & Library. Curated and researched for the first time by student history detectives from Johns Hopkins University, the diverse artifacts on display in this winter focus exhibition illuminate the broad collecting […]
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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
During the Spring 2015 semester, students in Elizabeth Maloney’s M&S course AS.389.275, explored how heritage areas and historic sites serve visitors through interpretation. After visiting local museums and historic sites, students partnered with staff from the Baltimore National Heritage Area and chose important buildings in downtown Baltimore that might be highlighted in signage or tours. Students then […]
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 […]
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, […]