Student Exhibitions & Projects

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Bard Graduate Center

Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and the Manufacture of Identity in Oceania Focus Gallery Project

Visualizing 19th Century New York

Bard Graduate Center Craft, Art and Design Oral History Project

Interpreting the American Colonial Revival: Making the Invisible Visible

Curatorial Practice as Experiment: A Chipstone Foundation-Bard Graduate Center Collaboration course
2016 Introspective: Contemplations on Curating exhibition; currently on view in Room 310/Object Lab
2015 Behind the Glass exhibition; also see installation photos plus video clip below:

Unedited footage from Behind the Glass video, featuring Shayla Black and Erica Lome talking about their experiences with the 2015 class and exhibition. NOTE: As the clip is unedited, please do not share.


Boston University

Brown University

I've uploaded a brief description of my collections course from the fall. Stamps!

Digication ePortfolios


Cooperstown Graduate Program

Degree Qualification Profile


Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons Program

This month, a New School-led coalition of 500 university students and formerly incarcerated individuals from 20 cities launched States of Incarceration, the first national traveling multi-media exhibition and coordinated public dialogue to explore the history and future of mass incarceration in the United States. Students from the MA program worked with graduate students across Parsons.
http://www.newschool.edu/pressroom/pressreleases/2016/statesofincarceration.htm

In addition working on the exhibition, some students also presented their work at the curatorial slam sponsored by the Curatorial Design Research Lab (CDRL).
http://cdrlab.parsons.edu/

Students in the MA program also work directly with Cooper Hewitt collections in the proseminar course which they take their first semester. One of the final projects is to write an Object of the Day entry for the Cooper Hewitt website.
Ethan Robey, article on Proseminar course

http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2016/05/03/rip-van-wallpaper/

National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

The New-York Historical Society

9/11 Memorial Museum

New York University

Penn State Harrisburg

University of Delaware

Debby Andrews with Vicki Cassman and L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin. “Learning as Doing: Undergrads Using Special Collections for Conservation and Material Culture Studies.” Past Is Portal. Eds. Eleanor Mitchell and Suzy Taraba. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2012. 290-297. Print.


University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

- Ackland Art Museum Study Gallery

- Course development grants are available in departments / programs for guest speakers, trips, and special projects. I used one such grant this year in my course, "The Material Life of Jewish America," to enable the students to curate a final exhibition in the Jewish Studies Center. The exhibit was called "From T-Shirts to Tattoos: Jewish Material Culture at UNC-Chapel Hill".


University of Wisconsin-Madison

Student exhibitions lie at the core of the material culture program at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Eight different courses produced exhibitions and two more (fall spring this year) have produced object studies from a local historical society for a new museum. These include both undergraduates and graduate students. I will look forward to talking about the projects.

There is not an easy institutional frame to find these, although I have several links on my faculty page. The easiest way to get a whole sense of them in on my new personal website www.annsmartmartin.com under the header "some exhibitions" and the pages there contain most info including videos and descriptions. These exhibitions have been held in at the Smithsonian (woo-woo), a regional gallery, university art museum, the university art museum plus two science buildings. and the art library.

One suggestion is we talk about the necessity of teaching objects, contexts, and curatorial practice often in short time period.

Another is the distinction between traditional and guerilla installations.


Winterthur Program

Yale University
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