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    Hood Museum Registrar Lauren Silverson. Photo by Alison Palizzolo.

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Hood Museum Appoints New Registrar

September 03, 2019

Lauren Silverson, who has over twenty-five years in the field of collections management, most recently served as the Registrar at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, where she had worked since 2002. Previously, she held the position of Associate Registrar at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

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    Associate Curator of Global Contemporary Art Jessica Hong. Photo by Alison Palizzolo.

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STAFF NEWS

September 01, 2019

Jessica Hong is the newest member of the Hood Museum of Art's curatorial team and started in January 2019 as the museum's first associate curator of global contemporary art. In this role, Hong is dedicated to centering voices, perspectives, and narratives throughout the world that are often in the margins of dominant discourse and institutional spaces.

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    Ijeoma Nwuke '20 and Sienna Craig at Night at the Museum. Photo courtesy of the South House Leadership Team.

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THE HOOD ON CAMPUS: NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM

September 01, 2019

Night at the Museum was the Hood Museum of Art's first collaboration with South House, the Dartmouth community that encompasses the three dorms in closest proximity to the museum: Topliff, New Hampshire, and the Lodge. Museum staff worked with South House leadership to craft an evening filled with art, music, dance, and discovery.

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    Enrico Riley, Untitled: Remembrance of Things Present, 2017, oil on canvas. Purchased through the Winky Fund; 2019.3.1. © Enrico Riley

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A Space for Dialogue 2019

September 01, 2019

Showcasing student curatorial and educational work is a key part of the Hood Museum of Art's mission, and nowhere is this more apparent than in A Space for Dialogue, the student-curated exhibition series that's been running since 2002. The first show by the Hood Museum's 2018–19 senior interns was Armando Pulido's Los Mojados: Migrant Bodies & Latinx Identities, which opened last May.

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    Grueby Faience Company, designed by George Prentiss Kendrick, vase, about 1899–1902, glazed earthenware. Gift of William P. Curry, Class of 1957; 2019.47.

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Art for Dartmouth: Celebrating the 250th

September 01, 2019

The Hood Museum of Art has a great art collection. For over two hundred years Dartmouth College has attracted landmark donations from its alumni and other interested art enthusiasts. Now, as we celebrate Dartmouth's 250th anniversary, we aim to acknowledge the amazing objects in our possession and work toward building on this strong foundation. To do this, we have invited alumni gifts of significant works of art that will take the College collection to the next level.

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