The Block Museum of Art and the 2022-23 cohort of Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA) are pleased to announce the selection of four works by artist Derrick Woods-Morrow as the annual student-led museum acquisition. The works, recommended by the Student Associates after a ten week research and decision process include: Her Name was Saartjie | […]
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The Block Museum of Art is grateful to announce that it is the recipient of a $45,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the exhibition Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera. This upcoming exhibition will feature new work created by the artist to expand her […]
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Lisa Corrin, Ellen Philips Katz Executive Director of the Block Museum of Art, is pleased to announce the appointment of James Belfer, Jessica Bell Brown, Susan Johnson, Morris (Dino) Robinson Jr. and Eden Romick to the museum’s Board of Advisors. Appointed by the executive director, The Block Museum of Art Board of Advisors serves a […]
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Every time Dario Robleto installs the print portfolio The First Time, The Heart (A Portrait of Life 1854-1913), now in The Block Museum’s permanent collection, he invites collaborators to re-envision the order in which it is presented, Michael Metzger curator of The Heart’s Knowledge: Science and Empathy in the Art of Dario Robleto, told listeners […]
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The partnership that yielded The Block Museum and the McCormick School of Engineering’s collaborative Artist-at-Large Program, which brought Dario Robleto to Northwestern from 2018-2023, began seven years ago when McCormick wanted to expose its students to more art. Kyle Delaney, the school’s executive director of strategic initiatives and marketing, and his team invited The Block […]
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As part of her 2023 Block Curatorial Internship Elizabeth Vazquez (’24 Anthropology and History) conducted research around potential museum acquisitions. Her work came to focus on the photographer Laura Aguilar, and in Spring 2023 Vazquez successfully presented a justification to the Block Acquisition Committee to accession three works by the artist into the museum collection. […]
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In The Block Museum’s Eloise W. Martin Study Center – a multifaceted space that offers patrons and classes a setting for up-close study of artwork in the museum’s collection – visiting paper conservator Kim Nichols carefully inspects a piece from The Block’s permanent collection. Because of the clay pigments used in its making, protective tissue […]
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Northwestern Engineering’s Malcolm MacIver is as surprised as anyone to find himself studying the neural basis of empathy. MacIver dropped out of school in the fourth grade for a mix of reasons that included having a learning disability and bullying. Because it was illegal for him to not be in school at that time, his family was […]
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Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós’ visionary hybrid of documentary and science-fiction, Dry Ground Burning (2022) envisions an alternate present, in which a daring group of outlaw women pirates, refines and distributes petrol in the working-class neighborhoods of Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Between run-ins with inept security forces and tense negotiations with motorcycle-riding couriers, gang leader Chitara (Joana […]
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Ashleigh Deosaran, a Northwestern doctoral student in Art History and curator of The Block Museum’s The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern exhibit knew early on that Ayé Aton’s painting Untitled (1976) would be a keystone of the exhibition. The piece came to The Block on loan from the collection […]
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