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The Collections

Featured Collection: Japanese Prints

December 04, 2015

The Hood’s collection of more than three hundred Japanese woodblock prints is a valuable teaching resource.

The Collections

Featured Collection: Environmental Art

December 04, 2015

In keeping with Dartmouth’s longstanding leadership in teaching and research related to climate and the environment, the Hood Museum of Art has developed significant holdings of art that touches on these themes, particularly in the area of contemporary photography, with works by Subhankar Banerjee,

View of the Hood Museum of Art from the Bedford courtyard

Museum News

John Stomberg to Direct the Hood Museum of Art

November 04, 2015

Dartmouth Now, November 04, 2015
by Hannah Silverstein, MALS ’09

John Stomberg has been named the inaugural Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director of the Hood Museum of Art, Provost Carolyn Dever announced today. He will begin work on Jan. 4, 2016.

Julissa Llosa ’10, Homma Family Curatorial Intern, gives a gallery talk on her A Space for Dialogue installation, Riot: Feminist Protest Art. Photo by Alison Palizzolo.

Student-Curated Exhibitions at the Hood Museum of Art

November 02, 2015

Since 2001, the Hood Museum of Art has mounted an ongoing series of student-curated mini-exhibitions drawn from the museum's collections. A Space for Dialogue is a unique aspect of the museum's senior internship program.

Students and a teacher gathered around artwork at the Hood Museum

Community of Learners: Autumn 2015

October 20, 2015

Hood Quarterly, autumn 2015

Attributed to William Hart, Tannery in the Catskills, early 1850s, oil on canvas. Purchased through gifts from the Class of 1955 in honor of their sixtieth reunion; 2015.25.

The Collections

Recent Acquisitions: Attributed to William Hart, Tannery in the Catskills, about early 1850s

October 20, 2015

Hood Quarterly, autumn 2015

The south façade of the Hood Museum of Art and Maffei Arts Plaza with Kiki Smith's Refuge. Ellsworth Kelly's Dartmouth Panels are just visible through the foliage at left.

The Collections

Recent Acquisitions: Kiki Smith, Hoarfrost with Rabbit, 2014

October 20, 2015

Hood Quarterly, autumn 2015

Kiki Smith, Hoarfrost with Rabbit [now titled Refuge], 2014, stainless steel

I trust my work. It’s a collaboration with the material, and when it’s viewed, it’s a collaboration with the world. What your work is resides in between those different spaces.
—Kiki Smith, 2005