In the summer of 2018, I was the collections intern for the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey.
A Path into the Arts
Q&A with Julia Lo
Whether you intern, give tours as a docent, volunteer for programs, attend events, or just frequent the galleries – you can make these experiences as meaningful as you want.
Disability Studies in Art History
Encountering Disability
In analyzing my experiences with pieces by Close and Lei, my goal is to understand the ways these artists chose to portray the disabled body through their art, how they chose to represent their own disabilities, and how this impacted my experience as a nondisabled viewer.
Bird Days at the Museum
Being part of this project gave me a chance to engage with the local community and to plan two separate activities whose main goal was to educate and connect humans of all ages.
Margaret Aiken
Linde Family Foundation Coordinator of School and Teacher Programs
This post is a part of our “Meet & Greet” Series, periodic posts meant to introduce our online audiences to staff members here at the Colby College Museum of Art! Margaret
Katz in Cleveland
Brand-New & Terrific at the Cleveland Museum of Art
“The Cleveland Museum of Art has…a global collection, so it’s possible to view Katz’s creations in several different contexts made possible by these holdings.”
Revollusion, or the Battle of Utopias
Luis Camnitzer on Art, Education, and their Futures
“I don’t think you can learn without using boundless imagination, considering absurdity and failure, and analyzing and questioning the parameters used to transmit a message, both as a giver and a receiver.”
Peeking around the Back Side
The Art Doctor
“A look at the reverse of a painting can reveal a lot about its structure and stability; it’s a bit like examining the foundation of a house.”
A Suite Semester
My time with Picasso’s Vollard Suite
“In my seminar on the Vollard Suite, I learned how to look closely and how to help others look—for details, technique and style, visual connections to other works of art, and evidence of philosophical and symbolic influences.”
“Worlds Within Worlds”
Archaeology and the Art of Leonardo Drew
“Drew invited me to think differently about the ancient objects and ruins that I study each day, to see them in a new context of beauty and decay.”