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Monday
12
May
2025
Keeping Track of the Past: Exhibition Files and Museum Records
Curatorial Intern Lydia Holleck ’25 shares her experience working on a project to digitize the Museum’s exhibition records, ensuring that information from every exhibition dating 1931–2025 is accessible for Museum staff in the online database. In particular, she reflects on one exhibition, “Transformations in Hellenistic Art,” that stood out to her.
Monday
11
March
2024
Lotus Shoes: The Stories of Chinese Women and American Women Missionaries
The Almara History in Museums and Stomberg Curatorial intern Keyang Zhao ’25 explores the history of footbinding and missionaries in China by looking into lotus shoes at the art museum.
Saturday
20
May
2023
Poetry with Mercury and Argus
Engagement Intern Darwin Michener-Rutledge ’24 looks at the painting “Landscape with Mercury and Argus” through the eyes of a writer and poet. She discovers a moment that connects with her own life and turns the experience of observing art into another form of art.
Wednesday
18
January
2023
Global Migration Through A Photographer’s Lens
Engagement Intern Charlotte Smith ’24 reflects on her class visit to the Art Museum as part of Professor Serin Houston’s Fall 2022 geography course “Global Movements.” She describes close-looking activities in the Museum galleries and shares her newfound connections within the disciplines of art history and geography.
Wednesday
28
July
2021
My Senior Project in the Making
Jennifer Villa '21 describes the artistic influences that shaped her senior project, Upon my Back, and the process of its creation.
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