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Take What You Need: Exploring Winslow Homer’s “Chestnutting” and Foraging throughout the United States

Published November 20, 2024 by Hood Museum of Art

Take What You Need: Exploring Winslow Homer’s “Chestnutting” and Foraging throughout the United StatesA view of "From the Field" the walls are yellow and four works of art are hanging on the wall.

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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Connections Across the Collection: The Site of the Table

Published August 26, 2024 by Hood Museum of Art

Connections Across the Collection: The Site of the TableA view of "From the Field." The walls are yellow and there is a display table in the middle of the room.

While curating From the Field: Tracing Foodways through Art, my co-curators and I spoke extensively about our collective lived experiences with and relationships around food but also about the traditions, spaces, and habits that shaped them. Do you routinely sit…

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Year of the Dragon: Developing the Museum’s First Lunar New Year Event

Published August 26, 2024 by Hood Museum of Art

Year of the Dragon: Developing the Museum’s First Lunar New Year EventVisitors decorating red envelopes with paint markers and hand-carved stamps

This past February, the museum celebrated its first-ever Lunar New Year event. The not-so-secret anxiety of our programming creators (and party planners of the world) is that for all your planning and time, no one will show up. However, I…

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Woomin Kim’s “Shijang” Series: A Love Letter to the Open Market

Published June 19, 2024 by Hood Museum of Art

Woomin Kim’s “Shijang” Series: A Love Letter to the Open MarketA view of an an unfinished gallery in the Hood Museum of Art. The walls are painted yellow. Three people overlook works of art waiting to be hung on the left wall.

Fabric is like air, it’s everywhere. —Artist Woomin Kim As a maker and museum worker, I’m often struck by how art making mimics acts of cooking. Wedging clay for ceramics uses muscles that become useful when you’re kneading bread, and…

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Why do some labels say “Artist once known” at the Hood Museum of Art?

Published March 4, 2024 by Hood Museum of Art

Why do some labels say “Artist once known” at the Hood Museum of Art?The "Olla Water Jug" sits in a glass case. The glass case sits in a gallery filled with art on the walls.

If you’ve been in our galleries recently, you might have noticed that labels for artworks by unidentified artists list the maker as “artist once known” rather than the more traditional “artist unknown.” The difference is subtle but important. “Artist unknown”…

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