Welcome Little Stranger: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Family in Early Maryland Homewood Museum, January 17-March 30, 2008.
Curated by students in the fall course "Introduction to Material Culture," taught by Homewood Museum Curator Catherine Rogers Arthur, this exhibition explored the practices surrouding pregnancy and childbirth among families like the Carrolls of Homewood. Students researched the historical framework of the show, selected objects that would elucidate its themes, and organized the installation. This course and exhibition are an annual offering through the Program in Museums and Society, generously sponsored by the late Anne Merrick Pinkard.
Read more about student research for this project in the Johns Hopkins Magazine.
Printed Sculpture/Sculpted Prints
The Baltimore Museum of Art, November 14, 2007-March 30, 2008
Curated by Elizabeth Rodini and undergraduates in her spring, 2007 Museums and Society course, "Paper Museums: Exhibiting Prints at the BMA," this exhibition featured prints and small-scale sculptures from the BMA's extensive collection. The show explored the many and varied reasons sculpture was represented in printed imagery, from the sixteenth through early nineteenth centuries.
The ten undergraduate students met regularly at the BMA with Dr. Rodini to help select the works for the exhibition, research them, and organize the installation. Assisted by the BMA staff, they also planned programs and wrote the text for the exhibition, as well as for an illustrated brochure. The exhibition received a glowing review in Baltimore's City Paper.
Printed Sculpture/Sculpted Prints was generously supported by Chuch and Amy Newhall and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences of the Johns Hopkins University.
Renaissance Men: Classical Form in Art and Anatomy
Milton S. Eisenhower Library, November 5, 2007-March 3, 2008
Curated by Museums and Society undergraduate students Gillian Maguire and Whitney Shaffer, this show featured works from the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections and the Johns Hopkins Institute of the History of Medicine. It was conceived as an extention of the student-curated exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Printed Sculpture/Sculpted Prints.
Feathers, Fins, and Fur: The Pet in Early Maryland
Homewood Museum, January 4-March 31, 2007
Students in the fall, 2006 undergraduate course "Introduction to Material Culture" used artifacts and objects to investigate early American history. The result was this exhibition, which was profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education. This seminar-exhibition project is now an annual offering of the Program in Museums and Society.
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