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The Hood Museum’s Spotify Wrapped

Published January 10, 2025 by Hood Museum of Art

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…

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 States

A 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…