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Colleges and universities are designing innovative partnerships with campus and area art museums, developing curriculum initiatives that spread across the majors.

Business, science, engineering, environmental, and dance are among a variety of disciplines finding art museums to be a new or renewed resource in an evolving teaching and learning experience at many of today's campuses.  

Noted below is a sampling of innovative museum initiatives. 

   
Skidmore's Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery currently features an art-and-science exhibition entitled Molecules That Matter, in which "history students consider spices as 'molecules that mattered to medieval Europe,' business students calculate molecules' market values; and classics students set forth in search of 'ancient molecules that matter.'"

Since the Tang opened in 2000, Skidmore faculty members have been encouraged to propose and co-curate their own exhibitions. Many small shows and five major exhibitions--including the current "Molecules That Matter" -- were co-curated by Skidmore faculty members hailing from disciplines that span the liberal arts curriculum, from biology to American studies to physics. It is a distinguishing feature of the exhibition schedule at the Tang."

Exhibit Web link: http://tang.skidmore.edu/4/exhibitions/doc/2070/ 

For more information, contact Barbara Melville, department of communications, Skidmore College,  518/580-5740, bmelvill@skidmore.edu.    


The Bates College Museum of Art originated "Green Horizons," a show exploring issues related to sustainability. Programming for this show included collaborations with non-art faculty, students, the local community and with the nationally acclaimed Bates Dance Festival. Further background: http://www.bates.edu/x163102.xml
For more information, contact Doug Hubley, office of communications and media relations, Bates College, 207/786-6329, dhubley@bates.edu.   

 




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