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Stories & News

    Left to right: Nikki, Meredith, and Andy in the museum’s offsite storage facility. Photo by Alison Palizzolo.

Staff News

April 16, 2018

Meredith Steinfels joined the Hood staff in January 2018 as the digital platforms specialist. Meredith was most recently the digital assets manager at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and also worked in collections information at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.

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    Maria Oakey Dewing, Iris at Dawn, 1899, oil on canvas. Purchased through the Miriam H. and S. Sidney Stoneman Acquisition Fund and the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W’18 Fund; P.999.11.

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Luce Grant

April 16, 2018

The Hood Museum of Art is honored to have been awarded a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support the opening installation of North American art from the museum’s collection. This two-year grant of $280,000 will subsidize object conservation, the purchase of cases, pedestals, and state-of-the art lighting, and the hiring of temporary art handlers and a curatorial assistant for one year.

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    Hood Docent Judy Oxman discusses the Hood Downtown exhibition Ingo Günther: World Processor with students from Hanover High School.

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Community of Learners

April 16, 2018

When the Hood opens its doors next year, we expect our docents to be in high demand. In preparation for the anticipated uptick in tour requests, we are expanding our docent program this spring. Docents have long been integral to our work with public audiences. Annually, when the Hood is open, docents provide free tours to about four thousand museum visitors of all ages and stages of life.

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