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WATCH: "Art and Knowledge: Creating Learning Spaces"

June 22, 2020

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Virtual Conversation

On May 20, 2020, Jami Powell, Associate Curator of Native American Art, and Jamie Rosenfeld, Museum Educator, hosted a virtual conversation about how they collaborate when developing public engagement strategies and educational resources centered on the Hood Museum of Art's Indigenous collections.

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    Museum Collecting 101 on Zoom

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Museum Collecting 101 Continues Remotely

May 20, 2020

A drawing of a lush forest transitions seamlessly into a photograph continuing the scene. A film shows a woman walking down the street in a white dress made out of balloons that spill out in front of her. A photograph highlights a white lift holding a worker replacing streetlights against a brilliant blue. These works by Gabriela Albergaria, Lia Chaia, and Ko Sin Tung were some of the options presented to this year's Museum Collecting 101 class.

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    Kensington Cochran '20 in the exhibition School Photos and Their Afterlives

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Intern Spotlight: Interview with Kensington Cochran '20

May 01, 2020

What does your internship at the Hood Museum entail?

My job as a Programming Intern is to bring groups of Dartmouth students into the museum that may not otherwise walk in on their own accord, and to design intentional, impactful interactions with the objects in the collection.

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    Reconstitution opens to the public on January 2. Photo by Alison Palizzolo.

Engagement with Reconstitution

February 11, 2020

On view now through May 31, Reconstitution considers privileged histories in Western institutional settings, such as academia and museums, whose origins are rooted in colonialism. The concept of the exhibition originated with a suite of engravings in the Hood Museum's collection by Crispijn de Passe's (1564–1637), Four Continents (ca.

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