LEFT Associate Curator of Academic Programming, Beth Mattison, teaches a section of "A Visual History of Germany." Photo by Randall Kuhlman.
2021–22 Annual Report: Campus and Community Programs
This chapter outlines the museum's engagement with campus, public, and K–12 audiences, respectively. Section narratives detail highlights from specific program areas.
In FY22, the Hood Museum of Art produced a range of successful programs across all public and campus audiences. Responding to goals developed over the past year, especially in relation to the museum's 2022–26 strategic plan, staff prioritized accessibility to meaningful programming for all audience sectors in terms of both content and means of delivery. Those in museum-engagement positions displayed their tenacity and flexibility by offering hundreds of in-person, virtual, and hybrid programs throughout the year. This work across numerous platforms required both retooling programs as audience needs shifted and reestablishing relationships with those audiences and collaborators who had lost touch with the museum during the pandemic.
LEFT Students in Tom Ferrara's "Painting I" and "Painting II" look closely at a range of work. Photo by Amelia Kahl.
ABOVE Students in "What's in Your Shoebox? Unpacking Your Study Abroad Experience" explore a "mystery object". Photo by Amelia Kahl.
Campus Engagement: Curricular and Co-Curricular
Curricular Engagement
The museum area of academic programming returned to business as usual this year after (and despite) the immense disruptions of the pandemic. With a full roster of classes and restored student population on Dartmouth's campus, the Bernstein Center for Object Study (BCOS) and the galleries were nearly back to normal in terms of curricular campus engagement, with a particularly high number of class visits (143) during winter term 2022. Running BCOS is a team effort that relies upon art handlers performing the core function of pulling objects, setting up rooms, monitoring classes, and putting objects away again. This year, we welcomed three new members of exhibitions preparation to the BCOS art-handler team (Molly Hoisington, Lauri Kobar, and Matthew Oates) while also relying heavily on the handling skills of our colleagues in registration (Kristie Couser, Nicki Gaumont, and Nikki Gilbert) to ensure safe access to the collection for our faculty and students. As always, the experience and expertise of Sue Achenbach, our lead preparator, were invaluable to the smooth operation of BCOS. Nikki Gilbert also stepped into a leadership role as head of exhibitions in FY22, and her partnership was key to balancing the preparators' workload between BCOS and the galleries.
Winter term 2022 was also an exciting time as Professor Roberta Stewart's met her course titled "Roman Coins as Text" met entirely in BCOS, with students studying coins at each class session. The class's work culminated in a coin case installed in the Kim Gallery featuring Roman coinage and global money. The class also produced a printed brochure, a binder of extended label texts, and a website with additional information about their research. This in-depth integration between the curriculum, collections, and exhibition spaces is a key example of the museum's commitment to enhanced engagement with both faculty and students. Similarly, Art History Professor Elizabeth Kassler-Taub taught two of her courses—the prints class titled "The Viral Image" and "Living Stone: Sculpture in Early Modern Italy"—primarily in BCOS. All three of these commitments would not have been possible without the work of Center for Object Study Coordinator Randall Kuhlman and Andrew W. Mellon Associate Curator of Academic Programming Elizabeth Rice Mattison.
This deep curricular integration continued in the spring term as Art History Professor Allen Hockley taught "Japanese Prints" entirely in BCOS; Hood Museum Curator of Indigenous Art Jami Powell taught "Native American Art and Material Culture" primarily in the museum; and on multiple occasions Anthropology Professor Nathaniel Dominy brought students from his class "The Human Spectrum" to the museum to meet with experts and view objects.
Mary Desjardins, a professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies, completed a Mellon Fellowship on the Hollywood photographs from the museum's John Kobal Foundation Collection in summer 2022. She plans to offer a Mellon seminar to faculty and museum staff in the fall.
Courses that Utilized the Hood Museum of Art and its Bernstein Center for Object Study
African and African American Studies 10.01, "Introduction to African American Studies"
Trica Keaton
African and African American Studies 54.05, "Feminist and Queer Africa on Stage and Screen"
Laura Edmondson
African and African American Studies 67.50, "Black Consciousness Black Feminism"
Abby Neely
African and African American Studies 83.08, "Global Caribbean"
Chelsey Kivland
African and African American Studies 88.08, "Ethnography of Violence"
Chelsey Kivland
African and African American Studies 90.01, "Identity and Power"
Lisa Baldez
Anthropology 3.01, "Introduction to Cultural Anthropology"
Sienna Craig, Chelsey Kivland
Anthropology 7.05, "Animals and Humans"
Laura Ogden
Anthropology 11, "Ancient Native Americans"
Madeleine McLeester
Anthropology 12.26, "Environmental Justice"
Maron Greenleaf
Anthropology 28 (*See African and African American Studies 88.08)
Anthropology 33 (*See African and African American Studies 83.08)
Anthropology 50.05, "Environmental Archaeology"
Madeleine McLeester
Anthropology 50.34, "Peoples of Oceania"
Brinker Ferguson
Anthropology 50.50, "Archaeology of Food"
Jiajing Wang
Anthropology 55.01, "Anthropology of Global Health"
Anne Sosin
Anthropology 73.01, "Main Currents in Anthropology"
Sienna Craig
Anthropology 74, "The Human Spectrum"
Nate Dominy
Art History 5.01, "Introduction to Contemporary Art"
Mary Coffey, Chad Elias
Art History 7.02, "Paris in the Nineteenth Century"
Kristin O'Rourke
Art History 7.05, "Pompeii: Antique and Modern"
Steven Kangas
Art History 10.01, "Art of Ancient Egypt and Near East"
Steven Kangas
Art History 12.05, "Roman Art"
Ada Cohen
Art History 18.01, "Ancient Art and Myth"
Steven Kangas
Art History 27.02, "Living Stone: Sculpture in Early Modern Italy"
Elizabeth Kassler-Taub
Art History 27.03, "Building Boom: Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Italy"
Elizabeth Kassler-Taub
Art History 28.01, "The Global Renaissance"
Elizabeth Kassler-Taub
Art History 28.05, "Art & Society in the Rococo"
Kristin O'Rourke
Art History 40.04, "Mexicanidad"
Mary Coffey
Art History 41.02, "Twentieth-Century European Art, 1900–1945"
Katie Hornstein
Art History 48.05, "Satire: Art, Politics & Critique"
Kristin O'Rourke
Art History 62.30, "Japanese Prints"
Allen Hockley
Art History 81.03, "The Viral Image"
Elizabeth Kassler-Taub
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.06, "Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender in Southeast Asia"
Sara Swenson
Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 62.12 (*See Art History 62.30)
Classical Studies 06, "Introduction to Classical Archaeology"
Julie Hruby
Classical Studies 11.19, "Before Billboards and Twitter: Roman Coins as Text"
Roberta Stewart
Classical Studies 12.03, "Who Owns the Past?"
Julie Hruby, Jesse Casana
College Course 21, "What's in Your Shoebox?: Unpacking Your Study Abroad Experience"
Francine A'Nesss, Mokhtar Bouba
College Course 26, "What's in Your Toolbox?"
Mohktar Bouba, Tania Convertini
Economics 35, "Games and Economic Behavior"
Christopher Adams
Engineering 30.01, "Biological Physics"
Kimberley Samkoe
English 7.47, "Tales of the Avant-Garde"
Andrew McCann
English 52.10, "Vox Clamantis: Wilderness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature"
Michael Chaney
English 74.12, "Garden Politics"
Melissa Zeiger
Environmental Studies 7.15, "Future of Food"
Sarah Smith
Environmental Studies 26, "Soil Ecological Systems"
Bala Chaudhary
Film Studies 3.01, "Digital Arts and Culture"
John Bell
Film Studies 47.26, "Film and Fashion"
Mary Desjardin
French 11.01, "Intensive French"
Kelly McConnell
French 22, "Medieval and Renaissance French Literature"
Andrea Tarnowski
Geography 3.01, "Living with Nature"
Christopher Sneddon, Abby Neely
Geography 11.01, "Qualitative Methods"
Abby Neely
Geography 25, "Social Justice and the City"
Erin Collins
Geography 29, "Global Cities"
Erin Collins
Geography 31.01, "Postcolonial Geographies"
Erin Collins
Geography 72.01 (*See African and African American Studies 67.50)
Geography 80.10, "COVID-19"
Abby Neely
German 7.06, "Diversity in the Media"
Heidi Denzel
German 7.07, "Babylon Berlin"
Veronika Fuechtner
German 10.06, "A Visual History"
Heidi Denzel
German 42.07, "Intercultural Communication"
Heidi Denzel
Government 84.06 (*See African and African American Studies 90.01)
Government 86.43, "Intellectual History of Racism"
Michelle Clarke, Jonathan Smolin
History 7.19, "Medieval Paris"
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
History 7.32, "Civil War Photographs"
Robert Bonner
History 13.01 (*See Classical Studies 12.03)
History 15.01, "American Indian and Expansion: 1800–1924"
Colin Calloway
History 38.02, "Lewis and Clark in Indian Country"
Colin Calloway
History 63.02, "Material Culture of Science"
Whitney Robles
History 87.01, "Culture and Identity in Modern Mexico"
Bryan Winston
History 94.16 (*See Classical Studies 11.19)
History 96.01, "Colonialism and Culture in Asia and Africa"
Douglas Haynes
History 96.39, "Saints and Material Devotion"
M. Cecilia Gaposchkin
Italian 3.01, "Introduction to Italian III"
Damiano Benvegnu
Italian 14, "Journey to Italy: An Introduction to Italian Culture"
Tania Convertini
Italian 23, "Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature"
Nancy Canepa
Jewish Studies 4, "The Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)"
Susan Ackerman
Latin American / Caribbean Studies 9.01, "Global Race x Global Migration"
Jorge Cuellar, Mingwei Huang
Latin American / Caribbean Studies 30.09 (*See Art History 40.04)
Latin American / Caribbean Studies 38.01 (*See African and African American Studies 83.08)
Latin American / Caribbean Studies 80.02 (*See African and African American Studies 90.01)
Latin 2, "Introductory Latin II"
Jenny Lynn, Patrick Glauthier, Bryce Walker, Simone Oppen
Latino American Studies 3, "Introduction to Latino Studies"
Marcela Di Blasi
Latino American Studies 5, "Complexities of Latinidad"
Marcela Di Blasi
Middle Eastern Studies 12.14 (*See Government 86.43)
Music 3.02, "American Music: Covers, Theft, and Musical Borrowing"
Richard Beaudoin
Music 3.06, "Sound Relations: Indigenous Musical Perspectives"
Sunaina Kale
Music 38.01, "Noise: Liberation in Sound"
Cesar Alvarez
Music 42, "Early Classical Music"
Richard Beaudoin
Music 99, "Proseminar"
Richard Beaudoin
Native American Studies 8, "Perspectives in Native American Studies"
Vera Palmer
Native American Studies 11 (*See Anthropology 11)
Native American Studies 15.01 (*See History 15.01)
Native American Studies 30.21, "Native American Art and Material Culture"
Jami Powell
Native American Studies 30.24 (*See Music 3.06)
Native American Studies 38.01 (*See History 38.02)
OSHER, "European Manuscript and Print Culture (1300–1600)"
Daniel Abosso
Philosophy 1.11, "Art: True, Beautiful, Nasty"
Jacob McNulty
Physics 30.01 (*See Engineering 30.01)
Portuguese 8, "Brazilian Portraits"
Carlos Cortez-Minchillo
Psychological and Brain Sciences 7.03, "Science and Pseudoscience"
John Pfister
Religion 2.01, "Religions of Southeast Asia"
Sara Swenson
Religion 4 (*See Jewish Studies 4)
Religion 41.07 (*See Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages 51.06)
Religion 43.01, "Buddhism in American"
Reiko Ohnuma
Sociology 2.01, "Social Problems"
Kristin Smith
Spanish 20.02, "Writing and Reading: A Critical and Cultural Approach"
Israel Reyes
Spanish 65.15, "Cameras and Crisis"
Martin Broner
Speech 20.02, "Public Speaking"
Svetlana Grushina
Speech 36.01, "Sustainability Rhetoric"
Svetlana Grushina
Studio Art 15, "Drawing I"
Karol Kawiaka, Jack Wilson
Studio Art 16, "Sculpture I"
Matt Seigle, William Ransom
Studio Art 17.08, "Digital Drawing"
Karol Kawiaka
Studio Art 20, "Drawing II"
Jen Caine, Oona Gardner
Studio Art 23.01, "Figure Sculpture"
Margaret Jacobs
Studio Art 25, "Painting I"
Viktor Witkowski, Tom Ferrara
Studio Art 27, "Printmaking I"
Jen Caine, Tricia Treacy
Studio Art 28, "Printmaking II"
Jen Caine, Tricia Treacy
Studio Art 30, "Photography II"
Virginia Beahan
Studio Art 31, "Painting II"
Colleen Randall, Tom Ferrara
Studio Art 65, "Architecture I"
Karol Kawiaka
Studio Art 71, "Drawing III"
Jen Caine, Oona Gardner
Studio Art 72, "Painting III"
Colleen Randall, Tom Ferrara
Studio Art 74, "Printmaking III"
Jen Caine
Studio Art 75, "Photography III"
Virginia Beahan
Studio Art 76, "Senior Seminar"
Enrico Riley
Theater 10.08, "Creativity and Collaboration"
Melinda Evans, Daniel Kotlowitz
Theater 10.64 (*See African and African American Studies 54.05)
Theater 21, "Race, Gender, Performance"
Laura Edmondson
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 3.01 (*See Latin American / Caribbean Studies 9.01)
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 10.01
Doug Moody, Francine A'Ness
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 37.03 (*See Geography 25)
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 42.05 (*See African and African American Studies 88.08)
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 59.04 (*See Theater 21)
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 66.09 (*See African and African American Studies 67.50)
Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies 66.15 (*See African and African American Studies 54.05)
Writing 3, "Composition and Research II"
Doug Moody
Writing 5, "Reviewing Ourselves: Critical Writing and Personal Values"
William Craig
Writing 5.31, "Representing Immigrants"
Melissa Zeiger
Writing 7.28, "Team Communication and Identity"
Svetlana Grushina
Museum Collecting 101
In FY22, Alisa Swindell, the museum's associate curator of photography, led students through the first in-person "Museum Collecting 101" class since 2019. After reviewing offerings based around the theme of "Touching History," students chose to acquire Tseng Kwong Chi's photographic self-portrait San Francisco, California (shown below), 1979, for the collection.
ABOVE Graduate students play the Assyrian Relief Escape Room Challenge in Russo Atrium. Photo by Isadora Italia.
Co-curricular Engagement
Before fall term 2021 even started, the museum welcomed several groups into the galleries: the First Year Student Enrichment Program (FYSEP), First Year Trips, the women's field hockey team, and international students participating in Dartmouth's preorientation activities. While these groups worked with Hood Museum staff to create customized experiences at the museum, a shared, overarching goal of it all was community building, something that is critically important to the museum's strategic vision and to students beginning a new academic year.
Various groups also engaged with the museum by participating in our escape room games: the Assyrian Relief Escape Room Challenge, which takes place in-person and focuses on the Hood Museum's six Assyrian reliefs, and the Escape to the Outdoors, a digital game that highlights Dartmouth's campus sculpture collection. Staff from the Office of Pluralism and Leadership (OPAL) and the Advancement Office, as well as students in the Allen and School Houses, all played along.
This past year, we also witnessed the rise in popularity of a relatively new programming format: temporary, pop-up exhibitions in the Bernstein Center for Object Study. Lasting about two hours, these mini-exhibitions allow for informal visitation and discussion, bringing students and Dartmouth community members together for topical conversations. Working with OPAL, the Dartmouth Rude Mechanicals theater group, the South Asian Studies Collective, and the Middle Eastern and North African Student Association (MENA), museum staff created unique pop-ups throughout the year featuring objects relating to, for example, Blackness, queerness, colonialism and trade in South Asian art, and the aesthetics of the Art Deco movement.
The Hood Museum staff was also proud to participate in campus-wide efforts such as the Explore the Arts orientation event, the Human Resources Student Appreciation Fair, the Counseling Center's Unwind Your Mind gathering, and Student Involvement's Class of 2025 Family Weekend, all which were held in-person in FY22.
Last but not least, spring term 2022 brought exciting engagement opportunities with the newly admitted students of the Class of 2026 and their families, who came to several tours hosted throughout the month of April, and a bittersweet, congratulatory farewell to the graduating Class of 2022, whom we toasted during a lively Mimosas at the Museum event attended by over five hundred visitors.
LEFT Museum Club member leads a gallery chat during a Hood After 5 event. Photo by Lars Blackmore.
Museum Club
After a full year of virtual meetings in FY21, the Museum Club was finally able to gather in person again starting in fall 2021. The excitement was palpable each week as members gathered over pizza in the Hood Museum's conference room to learn about museum practice and generate new ideas for student engagement.
Now in its fourth year, the club was faced with an interesting challenge. How would it return to prepandemic projects, such as the once-a-term Hood After 5 student party, while sustaining successful initiatives from its remote-engagement year, such as its new committee structure and the Alumni in the Arts webinar series? The solution was to assign committees to both in-person and virtual projects, including Hood After 5 and Alumni in the Arts, as well as whatever else the members might be interested in.
Hood After 5 parties were hosted in the fall, winter, and spring terms, bringing to the museum a lively mix of music, entertainment, and interactive activities. Throughout the year, the club's committees also organized riddle hunts, gallery chats, art-making stations, and more. The Dartmouth student newspaper even covered the winter 2022 event that highlighted the exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World (see the list of media highlights elsewhere in this report).
The Alumni in the Arts committees experimented with different formats. In the fall, the students hosted a hybrid event at which speakers James Nachtwey '70, award-winning photojournalist, and Anna Serotta '03, object conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Zoomed into a conversation with a live student audience in the museum's Gilman Auditorium. In the spring, the students opted for a more informal gathering, so Liz Tunick Cedar '05, Manager of Global Cultural Sustainability Programs in the Office of International Relations at the Smithsonian Institution, Zoomed into a Museum Club meeting catered by Trail Break Tacos.
Other highlights of the year include a student-written Meet the Artwork email campaign and student-designed "Hood hoodies" clothing that featured Joel Shapiro's well-known Dartmouth sculpture Untitled (1989–90). In a very special weekly meeting, the students met with visiting Montgomery Fellow Diego Romero and his partner, Cara Romero, in the galleries, where the artists spoke about their work on view in the exhibition Unbroken: Native American Ceramics, Sculpture, and Design.
FY22 Museum Club Members
Kaitlyn Anderson '24
Emily Andrews '22
Katherine Arrington '24
Sabrina Barton '24
Margaret Davidson '23
Cristal De La Cruz '22
Cleo De Rocco '24
Samantha Fried '22
Maclean Hadden '25
Chloe Jung '23
Caitlyn King '24
Emily Levonas '24
Justin Lewis '25
Ellie Mclaughlin '25
Peter Mikhlin '23
Sheila Milon '22
Bridget Parker '23
Nathan Savo '24
Abigail Smith '23
Emma Troost '24
Carly Walther-Porino '25
Junying Wang '23
Sadie Weil '25
Amy Zaretsky '23
Brian Zhang '24
ABOVE Creative writing workshop with North Park House In the exhibition "In the Moment: Recent Work by Louise Hamlin." Photo by Isadora Italia.
Programs for Dartmouth Student Groups, Dartmouth Faculty and Staff, and Hood Museum Affiliates
July 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 17, 21, 22, 23, 28
Tiny Visits with Visitor Services Guides
August 14
Facilitated Experience: First Year Student Enrichment Program (FYSEP) with Abby Smith '23
August 23
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Field Hockey Team
September 1
Native Indigenous Student Preorientation Breakfast and Tour
September 1
Unfacilitated Experience: International Student Preorientation
September 4
First Year Trip: Museum Exploration
September 9
Explore the Arts Marketplace
The Hood Museum staffed a table to welcome incoming students to Dartmouth.
September 11
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Class of 1956
September 11
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Class of 1951
September 14
Facilitated Experience: Undergraduate Admissions Tour Guides Presentation
September 17
Virtual Facilitated Experience: Geisel School of Medicine Fall Reunion
September 23
Reception: Middle Eastern North African Student Association
September 27
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Class of 1955 Minireunion
October 8
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Writer's Society
October 8
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Class of 1971
October 8
Facilitated Experience: Geisel School of Medicine, Dermatology
October 14
Hood After 5
October 14
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Advancement Family Weekend Programs
October 28
Facilitated Experience: Geisel School of Medicine, Humanities
October 29
Unfacilitated Experience: Dartmouth Japan Society
November 3
Queer History Celebration: Art Viewing and Discussion
Queer Art Pop-Up exhibition in BCOS hosted in collaboration with OPAL's annual Queer History Celebration.
November 4
Alumni in the Arts: Photography and Conversation
James Nachtwey '70, award-winning photojournalist, and Anna Serotta '03, object conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spoke about their work, how their time at Dartmouth influenced their career paths, and the trends they are seeing in their respective fields. Sponsored by the Museum Club.
November 10
Unfacilitated Experience: Institutional Diversity and Equity Conversation Group
November 15
Facilitated Experience: School House and Allen House Escape Room
November 18
Unfacilitated Experience: Allen House Study Break
November 19
Facilitated Experience: Rockefeller Board of Trustees Group
December 2
Facilitated Experience: Winterim Assyrian Relief Escape Room Challenge
December 6
Facilitated Experience: Counseling Center Staff
December 8
Facilitated Experience: Dickey Center
December 15
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Center for Social Impact
January 2
Facilitated Experience: Geisel School of Medicine, Training the Eye
January 13
Facilitated Experience: Office of Visa and Immigration Services
January 22
Customized Engagement: Geisel School of Medicine, Training the Eye
January 24
Facilitated Experience: Escape to the Outdoors with Advancement Staff
January 25
Escorted Experience: Sugarplum Dance Group Photoshoot
February 1
Facilitated Experience: Italian Language Living, Learning Community
February 4
Facilitated Experience: Escape to the Outdoors with Advancement Staff
February 5
Facilitated Experience: Programming Intern Wellness Program
February 9
Facilitated Experience: South House Exhibition Tour of This Land
February 10
Customized Engagement: Geisel School of Medicine, Engaging the Senses
February 15
Facilitated Experience: Dickey Center
February 17
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth Center for Social Impact
February 18
Hood After 5
February 23
Unfacilitated Experience: OSHER Class
February 24
Learning to Look training workshop for medical students who work with the elderly in assisted living facilities
March 2
Unfacilitated Experience: OSHER Class
March 31
Facilitated Experience: A Space for Dialogue Private Tour with Alice Crow '22
April 1
Facilitated Experience: Thayer School of Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Community Engagement Tour of This Land
April 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, 28
Facilitated Experience: Admitted Students and Families Tour
April 8
Facilitated Experience: Escape Room with the Young Professionals at Dartmouth Group
April 11
Facilitated Experience: Class of 2026 Discover Dartmouth: Access Days
April 15
Facilitated Experience: New Tour Guide Presentation
April 19
Facilitated Experience: Undergraduate Admissions: Discover Dartmouth
April 28
Unfacilitated Experience: North Park Writing Experience
Campus Engagement Manager Isadora Italia hosted a writing workshop for six attendees of In the Moment: Recent Work by Louise Hamlin
April 28
Hood After 5
April 29
Facilitated Experience: Dartmouth College Ecology, Evolution, Environment, and Society Graduate Program
April 30
Customized Engagement: Geisel School of Medicine, Training the Eye
May 4
Unfacilitated Experience: OSHER Class
May 5
Unfacilitated Experience: OSHER Class
May 6
Facilitated Experience: Photography's Afterlives Conference Artist + Student Lunch
Artists Mirta Kupferminc, Sandra Ramos, Lorie Novak, and Susan Meiselas joined students following their visit to the Hood Museum for a private lunch event.
May 10
Facilitated Experience: Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity Book Club
May 11
Facilitated Experience: South Asian Studies Collective Event
May 11
Unfacilitated Experience: OSHER Class
May 12
Unfacilitated Experience: OSHER Class
May 12
Unfacilitated Experience: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Pacific Asian Heritage Group
May 13
Facilitated Experience: French Language Living and Learning Community
May 13
Facilitated Experience: Tour for Dartmouth Aires
May 14
Facilitated Experience: Private Film Project
Emily Charland '22 invited a small group of students into the galleries and gave them a prompt. Afterwards, the students were asked to create a short film based on works in the galleries. The students then developed their projects at the Black Family Visual Arts Center.
May 18
Unfacilitated Experience: OSHER Class
May 28
Facilitated Experience: Book Arts Program
Students were invited to a hands-on workshop for stitching books.
June 8
Facilitated Experience: Assyrian Relief Escape Room with OPAL Staff
June 10
Mimosas at the Museum
Event celebrating graduating seniors and Hood Museum senior interns during commencement. Open to students and their families.
June 13
Facilitated Experience: Class of 1971
June 14
Facilitated Experience: Class of 1970
June 18
Facilitated Experience: Reunion Public Art Tour with John Stomberg
A walking public art tour was offered to all visitors on campus for reunion events.
June 18
Facilitated Experience: Class of 1977
LEFT Yliana Beck '22 gives her "A Space for Dialogue" talk on "A DREAM Deferred: Undocumented Immigrants and the American Dream." Photo by Isadora Italia.
ABOVE Alice Crow '22 (right) installs her exhibition "Transcendent Landscapes: Abstracting Nature" with Campus Engagement Manager Isadora Italia. Photo by Amelia Kahl.
Intern Engagement
Staff was delighted to welcome interns back into the museum's office space in FY22, which saw fifteen interns working on a variety of projects ranging from object research to programming and engagement.
Emily Andrews '22, Homma Family Intern, worked closely with Jami Powell, the museum's curator of Indigenous art, to research and update NAGPRA (the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) inventories with the aim of affiliating all unidentified human remains in the collection with their appropriate tribal nations. Concurrently, she worked to create lists of all objects that may be of interest to these tribes and set about producing PDFs with information surrounding the most relevant objects in the hopes of streamlining the consultation process, should additional information on these objects be requested. After her graduation in June 2022, Emily transitioned to a full-time staff position at the museum as its NAGPRA research assistant.
Yliana Beck '22, Conroy Intern, created her A Space for Dialogue exhibition A DREAM Deferred: Undocumented Immigrants and the American Dream using prints and photographs from the collection including a new acquisition by Karla Rosas. While researching her objects, she also spoke directly with artist Oscar Magallanes. Yliana also worked on the audio labels for This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World.
Emily Charland '19, Erbe Intern, curated her A Space for Dialogue exhibition, Journeys Beyond: Faces and Forms of Pilgrimage.
Amy Zaretsky '23, Conroy Intern, curated her A Space for Dialogue exhibition, Nothing Gold Can Stay, which centered on the theme of grief.
Working with Hood Foundation Curator of Education Neely McNulty, programming interns Emily Charland and Amy Zaretsky supported educational initiatives and developed their own programs for Dartmouth students throughout the year. They contributed to the audio labels for This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World (the first of their kind at the Hood Museum), which entailed learning interviewing and editing techniques very quickly and coordinating schedules with label contributors. Later in the fall, they participated in an art-making project at the Hop's annual Hop-O-Ween event. Additionally, they led two stress-relief maker sessions in the Russo Atrium, Zen Zines and Stitch and Sketch, where students made zines connected to exhibitions and stitch-and-collage pamphlet books. In conjunction with the John Kobal Foundation Collection exhibition, they planned and led a filmmaking program titled "Reel Time at the Hood," in which students first learned about Hollywood photography and then made short films in pairs in the galleries and developed those films at BVAC (Black Family Visual Arts Center). Lastly, the programming interns gave highlight tours and supported the spring Family Day event.
Alice Crow '22, Levinson Intern, worked with the Museum Club, solving problems around COVID restrictions, leading committee groups, and serving as a liaison between club members and the museum staff. She also designed event posters and created materials for art-making activities. Her A Space for Dialogue exhibition, Transcendent Landscapes: Abstracting Nature, featured work by painters Rebecca Purdum and Colleen Randall. Toward the end of the academic year Alice began giving tours, some of which featured her exhibition and others the museum more broadly.
Malia Chung-Paulson '24, Class of 1954 Intern, was the Native American and Indigenous arts intern supervised by Curator of Indigenous Art Jami Powell. She worked closely with museum and library staffers Richel Cuyler and Jess Pena to digitize the Gordan Day Papers held at Rauner Library in order to provide the Abenaki community with wider access to these resources.
Lydia Davis '23, Souls Grown Deep Intern, worked with Alexandra Thomas, the Hood Museum's curatorial research associate. Lydia researched and wrote about works the museum acquired through the Souls Grown Deep foundation, including a quilt by Gee's Bend quilter Louisiana Bendolph.
Clay Foye '22, a summer intern, assisted with handling, numbering, and cataloging the John Kobal Foundation Collection of Hollywood photographs. He also assisted with Professor Mary Desjardin's Mellon Fellowship.
Chloe Jung '23, Class of 1954 Intern, worked with Hood Museum Director John Stomberg. She wrote over a half a dozen curatorial reports for new acquisitions, including one for the new bronze bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by John Wilson destined for the renovated Dartmouth Hall, and another for a tooled leather painting by Wilfred Rembert. Chloe's A Space for Dialogue exhibition, Coloring the Western Canon, featured a spectacular work by Jacob Hashimoto in conversation with a global array of pieces by Guatemalan, Indigenous Australian, Native American, and Beninese artists.
Devon Kurtz '20, a curatorial intern with Professor Julie Hruby, identified and photographed ancient Roman lamps in the museum's collection. Devon then wrote brief informational paragraphs for the museum's internal catalog to be used for future reference.
Peter Mikhlin '23, Erbe Intern, coauthored an article with Professor Robert Welsch identifying and explaining the iconography in the museum's collection of Sepik River objects from Papua New Guinea. Focusing on the domestic hooks, Peter worked to develop a theory concerning the purpose of their decoration. The project was a result of a class visit to the Bernstein Center for Object Study.
Mikalia Ng '22, Levinson Intern, planned the annual Native and Indigenous Fashion Show, which included developing marketing materials, collaborating with campus and student partners, and directing the show. She also collaborated with Curator Jami Powell and her fellow interns to develop a children's coloring book for Dartmouth's annual Powwow festival that featured work from the museum's collection.
Jessica Pena, Erbe Intern, digitized the hardcopy files of each object related to the course, "Who Owns the Past?" taught by Professor Julie Hruby and Professor Jesse Casana. These files were shared on a Google Drive so that students and professors could discuss the objects in their classroom lectures rather than scheduling multiple visits to the museum.
Kylie Romeros '22, Conroy Intern, completed object-based research in connection with Professor Roberta Stewart's course, "Before Billboards and Twitter: Roman Coins as Text," which met in BCOS for each class session during the winter term. Kylie also helped developed a Wordpress site for supplemental resources as a part of the coin case installation Money Talks on view in Kim Gallery.
Abigail Smith '23, Conroy Intern, worked with Amelia Kahl, curator of academic programming, on various curatorial projects including cataloguing a new acquisition of Henri Daumier prints. Her A Space for Dialogue exhibition, Southern Gothic, explored the complexities of the region she calls home.
Public Programs: Highlights
In keeping with last year's priorities, public programs foregrounded initiatives that support diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) goals across all audiences, both in-person and using hybrid and virtual platforms.
Throughout summer 2021, programs remained entirely virtual. As a part of the monthly Virtual Conversation and Connections series, regional, national, and international audiences engaged with artists, including María Magdalena Compos-Pons, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Anita Fields. Interns gave public gallery talks for their A Space for Dialogue exhibitions, and Hood Museum Director John Stomberg presented portrait photography from the Bernstein Family Collection. Final virtual programs were two Spotlight on Public Art at Dartmouth programs focused on Allan Houser's Peaceful Serenity sculpture and Ellsworth Kelly's Dartmouth Panels, respectively.
In the fall, the museum transitioned to in-person public programming, beginning with a public reopening celebration. Scholars brought their insights to Hood Museum collections: Harvard Professor Melissa McCormick lectured on traditional Japanese art from the Bernstein Family Collection and filmmaker/historian Kevin Brownlow Zoomed in from Britain to speak about the John Kobal Foundation Collection of Hollywood photographs. In a fascinating conversation about the intersection between art and physics, the Dr. Allen W. Root Lecture brought artist Julie Mehretu together with Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, the Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, and Marcelo Gleiser, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Appleton Professorship of Natural Philosophy, and Director, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement, Dartmouth. Focusing on her exhibition in the Hood Museum, former Dartmouth Studio Art Professor Louise Hamlin gave a public talk about her artistic engagement with regional landscapes through painting, printmaking, and drawing. The Conversations and Connections series featured a discussion of the work of African American artist Thornton Dial, a dialogue with Chemehuevi artist Cara Romero, and a talk with former Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative (DAMLI) Native American Art Interns who gave curatorial overviews of their exhibition Unbroken: Native American Ceramics, Sculpture, and Design.
A spring 2022 public program highlight was the milestone convening "Re-envisioning Histories of American Art," held in conjunction with the Hood Museum exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World. The convening explored how museums are challenging, rethinking, and expanding traditional definitions of "American" art through a day of public panels with curators, professors, artists, and fellows from across the country who are contributing to a forthcoming publication on the subject.
Community-based, in-person workshops and public tours were reintroduced in the fall, and attendance climbed steadily during the year. They included registered program series Maker Night, Expressive Writing, Storytime in the Galleries, and family workshops. The newly returned drop-in public tours were in great demand, and we held a small but successful Family Day in the spring. Maker Drop-In was introduced in the atrium as an option for those who want to sit at a table full of art materials and work independently.
To broaden accessibility, larger programs were held in a hybrid format, a practice that will continue. We used auto-generated captioning for all online programs and contracted remote live-captioning services for major in-person programs such as symposia and endowed lectures, providing improved accuracy in real time for our livestreaming audiences. Some student-centered programming, such as A Space for Dialogue gallery talks and the annual Indigenous People's Fashion show, will continue as in-person, livestreamed programs.
Public, campus, and community programs
July 7
Virtual Conversations and Connections: One Artist, Two Objects, Many Approaches
Artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons and staff members Amelia Kahl and Vivian Ladd discussed the varied ways audiences can engage with Campos-Pons's work.
July 15
Virtual Adult Workshop: Expressive Writing Workshop
This workshop fused explorations of works of art with fun and meaningful expressive writing exercises. Facilitated by Joni B. Cole, Hood Museum education staff, author, and founder of the Writer's Center of White River Junction.
August 4
Conversations and Connections: Exploring the Narrative—A Discussion with Artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
In conversation with Curator Jami Powell, artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith discuss her life's work and gift for storytelling, which often manifests in her work as an exploration of ancestral knowledge in relationship to current issues.
August 5
Hood Highlights Tour: Staff Led
August 11
Virtual A Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk: Process, Product, and Black Practice
Process, product, and practice. Turiya Adkins '20 discussed her A Space for Dialogue exhibition, which investigated these three P's and their intersections with African American artists. An artist herself, Adkins's 2020–21 show was an exploration into how the Black experience informs Black artists' use of their materials.
August 12
Hood Highlights Tour: Staff Led
August 18
Virtual Spotlight on Public Art at Dartmouth: Peaceful Serenity by Allan C. Houser
In this program, audiences explored Peaceful Serenity (1992), a life-size bronze-plated-steel figural sculpture by Allan C. Houser (Chiricahua Apache, 1914–1994). Following a brief pre-recorded introduction, Curator Jami Powell spoke with David Rettig '75, curator of collections for the Allan Houser Foundation, followed by a live Q&A.
August 19
Hood Highlights Tour: Staff Led
August 26
Hood Highlights Tour: Staff Led
September 11
Storytime in the Galleries: Outdoor Sculpture
Through facilitated engagement and art-making activities, kids ages 4–5 and their adult caregivers explored two outdoor sculptures, X Delta by Mark di Suvero, and Wide Babelki Bowl by Ursula von Rydingsvard.
September 11
Family Workshop: From Chainsaws to Cranes
Through facilitated engagement and art-making activities, kids ages 6–9 and their adult caregivers explored two outdoor sculptures, X Delta by Mark di Suvero, and Wide Babelki Bowl by Ursula von Rydingsvard.
September 18
Fall Opening Celebration
A celebratory reintroduction to the Hood Museum of Art featuring open galleries, an a cappella performance, button-making, raffles, and live music.
September 22
Virtual Public Gallery Talk: Both Sides of the Lens; Portrait Photography
Featuring portraits collected by Raph and Jane Bernstein, Hood Museum Director John Stomberg gave a talk that considered the special balance of creative powers required between portraitists and their subjects.
September 23
Adult Workshop: Expressive Writing Workshop
September 25
Hood Highlights Tour: Staff Led
September 30
Virtual Adult Workshop: Expressive Writing Workshop
October 6
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
October 9
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
October 13
Virtual Conversations and Connections: So Many Ways to Be Human; Artist Anita Fields
Artist Anita Fields, Hopkins Center for the Arts Director and Ceramics Instructor Jenny Swanson, and Curator Jami Powell discussed works by Fields in the exhibition Form and Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics.
October 20
Virtual A Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk: Images of Disability
Intern Maeve McBride '20 presented her exhibition Images of Disability which examined how artists with and without disabilities have approached the subject.
October 21
Third Annual Indigenous Peoples' Fashion Show
The public was invited to join this celebration of Indigenous fashion, creativity, expression, and design. This program was cosponsored by Native Americans at Dartmouth, Hōkūpa`a, the Native American Program, and the Hood Museum of Art.
October 22
Lecture
A Legacy for Learning: Traditional Japanese Art from the Bernstein Family Collection
October 23
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
October 28
Conversations and Connections: Thornton Dial: The Tiger Cat
A discussion between John Stomberg, the Virginia Rice Kelsey 1961s Director of the Hood Museum of Art, and Alexandra Thomas, curatorial research associate, about three new expressive works by pioneering African American artist Thornton Dial.
November 3
Virtual Spotlight on Public Art at Dartmouth: Ellsworth Kelly Panels
November 6
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
November 12
The Dr. Allen W. Root Contemporary Art Distinguished Lectureship
In Conversation with Julie Mehretu: An Artist's Voice
A program panel featuring Julie Mehretu, artist, Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, and Marcelo Gleiser, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College.
November 17
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
December 1
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
December 11
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
January 12 and 19
Exhibition Tours
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World
Jami Powell, curator of Indigenous art, and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen associate curator of American art, introduced This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, which explores responses to the natural world by diverse American artists working from the early nineteenth century to the present.
January 14
A Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk: Southern Gothic
Intern Abigail Smith presented her A Space for Dialogue exhibition, Southern Gothic, which explored the complex and often macabre world of the Southeastern United States in the context of racial tensions, Reconstruction, the Great Depression, and the ghostly remains of the Antebellum era.
January 22
Hood Highlights Tour: Staff Led
January 27
Adult Workshop
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World
In this discussion-based, interactive workshop facilitated by Teaching Specialist Vivian Ladd and Hood Foundation Curator of Education Neely McNulty, participants explored objects by Native and non-Native artists featured in This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World.
February 5
Facilitated Experience: Programming Interns Wellness Program
Programming Interns led participants in a Zine-making activity.
February 9
Conversations and Connections: Artist Cara Romero
Artist Cara Romero and Curator of Indigenous art Jami Powell discussed Romero's 2015 Water Memories series and her photographic practice within the exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World.
February 16
Exhibition Tour: This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World
An introduction to This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World. Led by co-curators Jami Powell and Michael Hartman.
February 17
Manton Foundation Annual Orozco Lecture: Emiliano Zapata, a Revolutionary Icon for Mexico and the United States
Speaker Luis Vargas-Santiago of the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, explored how popular representations of the Mexican Revolution by agrarian leader Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) have moved freely across national boundaries through a "visual diaspora," causing political, social, and cultural repercussions. He also reflected on the key role that American expatriates had in promoting and commodifying Mexico's art and imageries internationally.
February 24
Winter Opening
February 26
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
March 2
Conversations and Connections: Sustenance
Professor Jorge Cuéllar and Curator Jami Powell considered the diversity of "American" relationships with corn as a food staple.
March 3
Virtual Inaugural John Kobal Lecture: The Great Collector
Acclaimed filmmaker and film historian Kevin Brownlow shared the story of the almost accidental way John Kobal's collection of film stills was formed and how it expanded to become one of the finest held in private hands. Presented in conjunction with the Hood Museum's exhibition Photographs from Hollywood's Golden Era: The John Kobal Foundation Collection.
March 10
Virtual Adult Workshop: Expressive Writing Workshop
March 11
Maker Drop In: Unfacilitated Art Making in the Atrium
Materials theme: Washi tape collage.
March 16
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
March 24
Maker Night: On the Edge
Special guest artist Louise Hamlin joined this Maker Night. The effects of art—emotional, metaphorical, and historical—are much discussed, but how artists actually create those effects is not. One of the often-unobserved ingredients of art is the edge. Taking inspiration from her current exhibition, Hamlin taught participants ways to manipulate the edge with pencil, charcoal, and pastel.
April 2
Hood Highlights Tour: Staff Led
April 7
Convening: Re-Envisioning Histories of American Art
Reception followed in the Russo Atrium.
April 8
Convening: Author Workshops
Small, private group workshops for convening catalogue contributors.
April 9
Hood Highlights Tour: Intern Led
April 13
A Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk: Transcendent Landscapes
Intern Alice Crow '22 presented her exhibition, which focused on five monumental works by female painters, in order to study the spiritual role landscapes play in painting and consider the ways in which these works evoke metaphysical experiences for both the artist and the viewer.
April 20
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
April 27
Exhibition Tour: This Land and Histories of Enslavement
Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art Michael Hartman discussed the relationship between enslavement and American Art in the United States through a guided tour of This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World.
May 4
A Space for Dialogue Gallery Talk: A DREAM Deferred: Undocumented Immigrants and the American Dream
Intern Yliana Beck '22 presented her exhibition, which focused on the challenges undocumented immigrants face living in the United Sates, in pursuit of the so-called "American Dream." This exhibition focused primarily on poster prints, which have become a popular and effective tool to spread the word on injustices and reach mass audiences.
May 7
Family Day: Celebrate This Land
This Family Day celebrated the creativity and innovation of Native American artists featured in This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World. Participants explored an artist's underwater installation, drew in the galleries, went on a natural materials hunt, relaxed in the reading nook, and made art in the atrium.
May 18
Hood Highlights Tour: Docent Led
May 19
Gallery Talk: Louise Hamlin: Seeing New Things
Louise Hamlin taught in the Studio Art Department at Dartmouth College for twenty-nine years, while also exhibiting her own work nationally and internationally. In this lecture, Hamlin reflected on her long career and how she finds subject matter and develops it in her paintings, prints, and drawings.
May 19
Louise Hamlin Reception
May 25
Conversations and Connections: Unbroken
Cocurators Dillen Peace '19 (Diné) and Sháńdíín Brown '20 (Diné), former Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative (DAMLI) Native American art interns, discussed their exhibition, Unbroken: Native American Ceramics, Sculpture, and Design. The exhibition draws from the Hood Museum's permanent collections to create dialogue between historic and contemporary works made by Indigenous North American artists.
June 2
Adult Workshop: Expressive Writing Workshop
June 9
Virtual Adult Workshop: Expressive Writing Workshop
June 25
Hood Highlights Tour: Staff Led
June 24
Maker Drop-In: Unfacilitated Art Making in the Atrium
Materials theme: Adhesive foam collage.
Programs for Schools
The 2021–22 academic year remained challenging for school participation due to the ongoing pandemic and varied COVID restrictions across school districts. During the fall of 2021 and through the early spring of 2022, most schools did not have permission for field trips. Educators were understandably exhausted from the stresses of of returning to in-person teaching with students who had lost academic and socialization time the previous year and were not yet eligible for a vaccine. Nevertheless, the museum hosted more than 140 guided and self-guided tours to 2,079 visitors during 2021–22. Of those visitors, 115 were elementary students, 163 were middle students, and 617 were high school students.
The museum staff did its best to support both teachers and students at this time. It heavily promoted virtual tours, which offer exciting opportunities for schools. Teachers and students benefited from classes led by professional museum educators and had access to the full range of the Hood Museum's collections, all from the comfort of their classroom. A handful of teachers took advantage of this opportunity, and tours were offered to 137 high school students on subjects as diverse as the Assyrian reliefs, contemporary Native American art, and art between World War I and World War II.
The Hood Museum's multiple-visit elementary school programs, ArtStart and Images, have run continuously for decades, even predating the museum's opening in 1985. In 2021–22, they carried on via a hybrid model. Six schools from Vermont and eight schools from New Hampshire participated in Images and ArtStart. Of the twenty-seven classes that participated from fourteen schools, ten joined virtually while seventeen were present in person. Images students had five lessons and ArtStart students had four lessons, and each ninety-minute session included art making. For those participating virtually, Hood Museum education staff mailed art supplies to each school; virtual classes did require a different curriculum from those who came to the museum.
Sixteen docent training sessions were held over the year, which represents about fifty percent of our normal training schedule. Fewer school tours (due to COVID) necessitated fewer trainings; we anticipate recovering our tour numbers over the next few years.
The exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World offered an exciting opportunity for regional teachers in the winter of 2022 to consider respectful ways of teaching with Indigenous art and culture. Under the leadership of Vivian Ladd, the Hood Museum's teaching specialist, the museum offered a four-part teacher workshop concurrently on Zoom and in person, and, for the first time it was eligible for graduate credit at Castleton University. Through a teaching-lab model, curatorial presentations, readings, and open dialogue, educators were challenged to envision what teaching about Native American culture and history should look like. Curatorial presentations helped teachers critically reframe how they see art made in North America, an important step in developing a curriculum that centers Indigenous culture and history. They were also encouraged to practice teaching with objects from the collection in order to become more comfortable facilitating conversations about this material and to gain confidence using art as catalyst for dialogue. Cannupa Hanska Luger's (Be)Longing was an ideal resource for this endeavor. Comprising a video, poem, and sculpture, this poignant installation pays tribute to the reciprocal relationship between Plains cultures, the bison, and the land. It also points to the consequences of colonial settlement in the American West, including, among other impacts, the destruction of this ecosystem. This work inspired nuanced conversations about how and what we can learn from Indigenous ways of knowing. Additionally, in the spirit of transparency and mutual learning, staff from our Cultural Heritage team shared the history of museum collecting and the Hood Museum's current efforts to be a better partner with the Indigenous communities whose cultural heritage it stewards. This important initiative is ongoing, as are the museum's efforts to elevate voices and center Indigeneity in its teaching practices.
Schools that participated in the Hood Museum's multiple-visit programs
Barnard Academy
Grantham Village School
Haverhill Cooperative Middle School
Hanover Street School
Newton Elementary School
Plainfield School
Richards School
Samuel Morey Elementary School
Sharon Elementary School
Unity School
Waits River Valley School
Westshire Elementary School
White River School
Access Programs
Our partnership with the Aging Resource Center at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) flourished this year. We continued to partner with them to provide enriching virtual programs for those living with cognitive impairments through the Perspectives program, and we also offered facilitated virtual experiences for neurotypical elderly audiences through the Learning to Look program. The dates of these virtual programs are below. Additionally, we offered in-person and Zoom tours for area assisted-living facilities including Woodlands Assisted Living, Woodstock Terrace, and Sunapee Cove.
We also had the good fortune to work with developmentally disabled communities at Zack's Place, MainStreet (a residency for disabled adults in Maryland), and the Global Campuses Foundation.
DHMC Aging Resource Center programs: (Virtual) Learning to Look
July 2
July 16
August 6
August 20
September 3
September 17
October 1
October 15
November 5
November 19
December 3
December 17
January 7
January 21
February 18
March 4
March 18
April 1
April 15
May 6
May 20
June 3
DHMC Aging Resource Center programs: (Virtual) Perspectives
September 28
October 26
November 23
December 28
February 22
March 22
April 19
June 28
Other customized community tours
July 1
Misa Tours
September 17
Cornucopia Journeys
October 7
Lifelong Learning
October 14
(Virtual) All Aboard Travel Tours
December 11
Lebanon Conservation Group
January 21
Classical Conversations Group
February 22
Heart of the Valley Mindfulness Center
March 22
Lyme Utility Club
April 14
P.E.O. Philanthropic Group
Special request adult tours
October 6
December 2
January 26
January 23
February 11
February 18
February 24
April 23
May 12
May 25
September 29
Customized Engagement: St. Johnsbury Academy
September 30
Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
October 1
Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
October 7 and 8
Virtual Customized Engagement: Kimball Union Academy
October 12
Virtual Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
October 14
Facilitated Experience: Lebanon High School
October 15
Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
October 18
Virtual Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
October 18
Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
October 21
Facilitated Experience: Gould Academy
October 22
Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
October 28
Facilitated Experience: Middlebury Union High School
November 5
Facilitated Experience: Trinity College
November 12
Facilitated Experience: Kimball Union Academy
February 11
Virtual Customized Engagement: Kimball Union Academy
February 24
Virtual Facilitated Experience: Hanover High School
February 25
Virtual Facilitated Experience: Hanover High School
March 1 and 2
Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
March 3
Customized Engagement: Kimball Union Academy
March 15 and 16
Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
March 16
Facilitated Experience: Provost Office Student Group
March 16
Facilitated Experience: Parker Academy
March 17 and 18
Customized Engagement: Hanover High School
March 25
Customized Engagement: Barre School Art Teachers
March 28
Virtual Customized Engagement: Lyme School
April 18
Facilitated Experience: Mt. Mansfield Union High School
April 20
Facilitated Experience: Hartford High School
April 29
Facilitated Experience: Rutland High School
April 29
Facilitated Experience: Ledyard Charter School
May 11
Customized Engagement: Marion Cross Elementary School
May 13
Customized Engagement: Vermont Art Educators Association Tour
May 24
Facilitated Experience: Goffstown High School
May 25
Facilitated Experience: Hanover Street School
May 25
Customized Engagement: Vermont Commons School
May 26
Facilitated Experience: Woodstock Union High School
June 1
Facilitated Experience: National Art Honor Society Student Group
June 7, 8, and 9
Customized Engagement: Kearsarge Middle School
