Publications

It was a busy year for the publishing arm of the museum. The publications team coordinated three catalogues, seven A Space for Dialogue brochures, three printed Quarterly newsletters, multiple gallery booklets and activity cards, an updated Museum Guide rack brochure, and an e-publication. 

In October 2019 the museum published The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, which was produced in conjunction with our reopening year and in celebration of Dartmouth's 250th anniversary in 2019. The publication considers the role and impact(s) of a thriving museum on a college campus, addressing the purpose, program, and place that together comprise the Hood Museum of Art. The volume also includes 153 plates featuring collection highlights and most-taught-with objects.

In December 2019 the exhibition catalogue for Dartmouth Professor of Studio Art Colleen Randall's show In the Midst of Something Splendid: Recent Painting by Colleen Randall came out in advance of the exhibition's January opening date. The 72-page catalogue contains 18 full-page plates, an introduction by Director John Stomberg and Senior Curator of Collections and Curator of Academic Programming Katherine Hart, an essay by Associate Director of the Bard College Institute for Writing and Thinking Celia Bland, and an essay by independent curator Sarah G. Powers, as well as an interview with the artist.

The museum also published an exhibition catalogue for Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics in March 2020. The publications team worked with the design and production firm Lucia | Marquand to produce Form and Relation and contracted for distribution with the University of Washington Press. The 103-page catalogue begins with a director's foreword by John Stomberg, as well as acknowledgments and an introduction by Associate Curator of Native American Art and exhibition co-curator Jami Powell. Contributors to the catalogue include DAMLI Native American Art Fellow and exhibition co-curator Morgan E. Freeman, Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art Curator Sequoia Miller, artist Courtney M. Leonard, University of Arizona Assistant Professor of Art History Anya Montiel, artist Rose B. Simpson, and artist Roxanne Swentzell.

Due to the pandemic, work on the exhibition catalogue for A Legacy of Learning: The Jane and Raphael Bernstein Collection was halted in March right before color proofing was scheduled to begin. (Work on the publication resumed in late September.) Similarly, articles that were written for the 2020 summer and fall Hood Quarterly were published online but not in print.