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| 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/
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more information, contact Barbara Melville,
department of communications, Skidmore College,
518/580-5740, bmelvill@skidmore.edu.
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| Linking the museum to the
curriculum, and vice versa, has always been a priority at
Smith College and the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA).
Director Jessica Nicoll is passionate about that mission.
The museum serves as a tremendous resource for teaching and
learning on Smith’s campus. During the 2006-2007 year, 2,732
college students within the Five College community visited the
SCMA as part of their courses. Smith offers five courses that
are museum-based. The museum also offers students an
opportunity to serve as museum educators for school children.
(There were 3,775 K-12 visitors in 2006-07.)
In addition, the SCMA is receptive to faculty ideas about
exhibitions. In 2006, the museum offered "The Art of
Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy," an exhibit that came
from an idea by an engineering professor. "The Art of
Structural Design" attracted students from Smith and
throughout the community to explore the various connections
between structural engineering and art. The SCMA also
consulted with Smith engineering faculty members to develop
resource packets that visiting teachers could take back to
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Jessica Nicoll, SCMA director, 413/585-2762, jfnicoll@email.smith.edu;
or Kristen Cole, media relations director, Smith College,
413/585-2190, kacole@email.smith.edu. |
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ASU Art Museum's InterLab
(Interdisciplinary Laboratory) is a new program that invites
faculty, graduate students and others with special interest
and expertise to presentation projects that span two or more
disciplines. Project proposers from any discipline within the
university or community interpret art from the ASU Art Museum
Permanent Collection, possibly augmented by outside work, in a
context that places works of art in new intellectual
environments; gives the works of art historical context or
demonstrates the ways in which various vocabularies of
expression can illuminate an idea. The goal is to open
dialogue among people with interests in the visual arts and
other disciplines, to enrich the viewing experience of all
visitors, and to demonstrate the relevance of art to people’s
lives.
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/interlab
Night Moves is an ongoing collaborative series between the
ASU Art Museum and ASU Department of Dance, coordinated by
dance faculty member Mary Fitzgerald in response to the
current exhibitions.
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/nightmoves - images
from past events on site |
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more information, contact
John Spiak, curatorial/museum specialist, ASU Art
Museum, 480/965-0497, john.spiak@asu.edu.
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| 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 |
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more information, contact Doug Hubley, office of
communications and media relations, Bates College,
207/786-6329, dhubley@bates.edu.
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| In May 2007, Seton Hall University's
Walsh Gallery worked in tandem with Environmental Studies, the
Center for Community Research and Engagement, Museum Studies
and education students to produce programming associated with
the Detritus exhibition. Museum Studies and
Environmental Studies students presented a teacher's
in-service demonstration for grade school educators, providing
them with four lesson plans to integrate environmental
subjects into their classroom with hands-on activities for
students. Teachers were also given recycled binders containing
each of the lesson plans, which were created by education
students, the Environmental Studies Department and the Walsh
Gallery in a unique cross-disciplinary partnership.
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For more information, contact
Jill Matthews, director of media relations, Seton Hall
University,
973/378-2695, mattheji@shu.edu. |
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