Exhibitions Archive
Meditations on Water
A Fragile ForceA Fragile Force: Meditations on Water pairs two video artworks, Electric Sheep by Amy Globus and Jennifer Moller's Seas. These two videos present meditative explorations of water, one focusing on icy waters meeting the shore, the other following an intelligent life form from its depths working through a man-made waterscape.
Real and Imagined
Immersive Worlds
Drawn from the Hood Museum's permanent collection, Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined features artworks created after 1950 using a range of artistic processes, including assemblage, printmaking, painting, and ceramic and wood sculpture. The exhibition invites personal, immersive exploration through a creative writing space, an opt-in scent station, and original poems by local poets commissioned specifically for this exhibition.
![An instillation image of "[Un]Mapping" The room is painted purple and has art on the walls.](https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/sites/hoodmuseum.prod/files/styles/max_320/public/hoodmuseum/images/unmapping.png?itok=y6O019ni "View of \"[Un]Mapping: Decolonial Cartographies of Place\" installed in Harteveldt Gallery. Photo by Rob Strong.")
Decolonial Cartographies of Place
[Un]Mapping
[Un]Mapping examines the legacies of mapmaking and invites viewers to think about alternatives for visualizing our relationships to place. This show focuses on the work of artists whose practices critique colonial legacies of cartography and employ decolonial and Indigenous ways of knowing. It considers how maps can be used not in the interests of surveillance or dispossession but as a means of placemaking.
Tracing Foodways through Art
From the Field
From the Field: Tracing Foodways through Art explores the idea of food as not only nourishment but also an expression of our lived and shared experiences. This exhibition invites audiences to reflect on their relationships to foodways, which encompass our attitudes, practices, and rituals around food. Artworks across different time periods, mediums, and cultures illustrate points of connection, disconnection, and reconnection to our foodways.
Shaping a Collection
An Instant Out of Time
An Instant Out of Time: Shaping a Collection looks at how the Hood Museum’s photography holdings are being developed to best respond to the institution’s teaching mission. It celebrates the collection’s four areas of strength—social documentary, contemporary, portraiture, and landscape photography—and considers future directions for this important campus asset.
Across time and cultures, gold has served as a metaphor for what we value most. Symbolically, it stands in for goodness, excellence, brilliance, and wealth. Specifically, the artists represented in this traveling exhibition turn to gilding as a means to reconsider our value systems. Gilding images of graffiti and sidewalks, cardboard boxes and architectural fragments, they ask us to see the beauty in what we so often overlook and honor that which we so often throw away. If, as the saying goes, “all that glitters is not gold,” the artists represented here offer an inverse proposition: perhaps that which does not always shine is most worthy of our attention.