I run many of the museum’s programs that bring hundreds of schoolchildren into our galleries and studio. I love how kids take to making art easily and joyfully. Often, though, the people most excited about the opportunity are the teachers…
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This year we have changed around the art that graces our beloved Russo Atrium. The two works that are now on view share some visual similarities—one is spherical and the other includes circular elements; they are both made of metal;…
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The Hood Museum’s visitor services guides, or VSGs, don’t just help protect art in the galleries; they also perform sculpture checks across Dartmouth’s campus. This process includes cleaning the labels on their stands, writing condition reports, checking the sturdiness of…
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How long must it have taken to physically carve the stone for an entire palace using only hand tools? Whose extremely defined calves did the Assyrian carvers immortalize in stone? Did carpal tunnel exist 2,500 years ago? These were some…
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When I first saw Louisiana Bendolph’s quilt titled Strips, hanging in the entry gallery of Always Already: Abstraction in the United States, I was transported back to my great-grandmother’s house. Growing up, I would always look forward to seeing her…
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Scarred by the tedium of my tenth-grade honors chemistry class, I was immediately skeptical when Elizabeth Rice Mattison, the Hood Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and curator of European art (and my supervisor), excitedly proposed subjecting one…
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At the Hood Museum of Art, we are deeply committed to the principles of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Enacted in 1990, this landmark legislation ensures the respectful treatment and return of Native American cultural items,…
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This summer, I spent three months as a curatorial research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana—Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. A library, research center, and photographic archive, the Bibliotheca Hertziana is one of the most significant institutes dedicated…
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The Hood Museum’s Spotify Wrapped We stayed very busy at the welcome desk this year, engaging with visitors and playing music in the atrium all the way through. Here are the top five songs from our Spotify Wrapped, along with…
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In Winslow Homer’s print Chestnutting, a group of children climb up and shake down a chestnut tree in rural New England, collecting the falling burs in an outstretched blanket. Printed in 1870, this image depicts a time when foraging was…
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