FY 2019–2020 Exhibitions

Art for Dartmouth
August 17, 2019, to March 13, 2020* (closed early due to pandemic; originally scheduled to close March 15, 2020)
Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery, Ivan Albright Gallery, Class of 1967 Gallery, First-Floor Corridor 
John R. Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelly 1961s Director
The Hood Museum of Art has long thrived through the generosity of its donors. The building itself is a testimony to generations of philanthropy. In honor of the 250th anniversary of Dartmouth, our supporters once again demonstrated their steadfast faith in the power of art within an academic museum setting. Throughout the galleries last season, new gifts of art, whether on display individually or comprising complete installations, marked this important milestone for Dartmouth.

Reconstitution
January 2, 2020, to June 20, 2021* (extended due to pandemic; originally scheduled to close May 31, 2020)
Dorothy and Churchill Lathrop Gallery
Jessica Hong, Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art 
Institutional spaces have long privileged Euro-American narratives, which has had powerful, even dangerous consequences in our culture and society. Artists in Reconstitution foster the evolution of previously entrenched narratives as they remind us that we are all responsible agents in the complicated processes of writing current and future histories. 
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and generously supported by the Philip Fowler 1927 Memorial Fund.

In the Midst of Something Splendid
January 2, 2020, to March 14, 2021* (extended due to pandemic; originally scheduled to close May 31, 2020)
William B. Jaffe and Evenlyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries 
Katherine W. Hart, Senior Curator of Collections and Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of Academic Programming and John R. Stomberg, Virginia Rice Kelly 1961s Director 
This ongoing two-gallery exhibition features abstract paintings on canvas and paper by this well-respected member of the Dartmouth studio art faculty, including new works created in 2018 and 2019, alongside slightly earlier works from her Immanence and Syncope series.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and generously supported by the Philip Fowler 1927 Memorial Fund.

School Photos and Their Afterlives
January 8 to March 13, 2020* (closed early due to pandemic; originally scheduled to close April 12, 2020)
Northeast Gallery
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
This exhibition looked critically at how a ubiquitous yet unremarked vernacular genre has been used to advance ideologies of assimilation and exclusion but also to inspire social and political change. It set an array of school photos from across photography's histories and geographies in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who have reframed them. Artists featured in the exhibition included Marcelo Brodsky, Steven Deo, Mirta Kupferminc, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Diane Meyer, Vik Muniz, Lorie Novak, Sandra Ramos, Tomoko Sawada, Abdel Salam Shehada, Carrie Mae Weems, and David Wojnarowicz.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and was generously supported by The Charles Gilman Family Endowment.

CIPX Dartmouth with Will Wilson and Kali Spitzer
January 15 to September 5, 2021* (extended due to pandemic; originally scheduled to close March 29, 2020) 
Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery
Jami C. Powell, Associate Curator of Native American Art, and Morgan E. Freedman, Native American Art Fellow 
Conceptualized by photographer Will Wilson, the collaborative project Critical Indigenous Photographic Exchange (CIPX) responds to the ethnographic photography of Native Americans that has been widely circulated since the beginning at the turn of the twentieth century. During a ten-day residency at the museum, Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena) and Will Wilson (Diné) took tintype portraits of Dartmouth community members, then exhibited selected images.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and was generously supported by The Charles Gilman Family Endowment.

The Embodiment of Language
January 18 to March 13, 2020* (closed early due to pandemic; originally scheduled to close May 24, 2020)
First Floor Corridor
Morgan E. Freedman, Native American Art Fellow, and Thomas H. Price, Curatorial Assistant
Nearly sixty years after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at Dartmouth, the Hood Museum of Art, together with the College, reflected on his legacy as an orator. King's speeches remind us of the aesthetic choices he made through his particular use of language—his cadence, tone, and intensity—all informed by his preaching as a Baptist minister. The exhibition The Embodiment of Language, in turn, considered specific relationships between language and Blackness in the context of US history. The artists represented configure letters, symbols, and literature to create a fertile ground upon which to articulate both personal and collective experience.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and was generously supported by the Leon C. 1927, Charles L. 1955, and Andrew J. 1984 Greenebaum Fund.

Shifting the Lens: Contemporary Indigenous Photography
February 15 to March 13, 2020* (closed early due to pandemic; originally schedule to close May 24, 2020)
Kaish Gallery
Jami C. Powell, Associate Curator of Native American ArtDrawing from the Hood Museum of Art's collection of Indigenous Australian art, Shifting the Lens featured photography by Christian Thompson, Fiona Foley, Bindi Cole, Michael Cook, Darren Siwes, Tony Albert, and Michael Riley that interrogates and conveys the multidimensionality of Indigenous Australian experiences.
This exhibition was organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and was generously supported by The Owen and Wagner Collection of Aboriginal Australian Art Endowment Fund.

Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics
January 5, 2021, to January 2, 2022 (opened late and extended due to pandemic, originally scheduled to open March 14 and close August 16, 2020)
Citrin Family Gallery, Engles Family Gallery, Harteveldt Family Gallery, and Kaish Stair
Jami C. Powell, Associate Curator of Native American Art, and Morgan E. Freedman, Native American Art Fellow 
This exhibition showcases the versatility of ceramics and the many forms it takes through the hands of six Indigenous artists from various regions within what is now the United States. Through their innovative and critical work, Anita Fields, Courtney M. Leonard, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Ruben Olguin, Rose B. Simpson, and Roxanne Swentzell wrestle with concepts such as community, identity, gender, land, extraction, language, and responsibility. 
This project was made possible, in part, through the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation.