In late November, The Block Museum of Art was proud to unveil the results of the Climate Crisis + Media Arts (CC+MA) Working Group’s transformative media-funding initiative. The two-night event included the first public presentation of six original media arts works made possible with funding from CC+MA. Since 2021, The Block Museum of Art has […]
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A Historic Festival Revisited offers a Tribute to Women Filmmakers and their Legacies This fall, The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University and the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago proudly announce a joint celebration of the 50th anniversary of the pioneering Films by Women/Chicago ’74 festival. […]
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On February 21, over 100 Northwestern University student-athletes, coaches, staff, and community partners gathered in Walter Athletics Center for an evening of lively conversation. The evening’s subject–not upcoming games or strategy–but art. The Block Museum of Art and Northwestern Athletics were proud to host the special event, which was called “Reframe” in acknowledgment of the […]
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A Getty workshop hosted at The Block Museum in July 2023 introduced students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to the principles of photograph conservation through the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive. The JPC Archive is a monumental repository of photographic materials depicting the Black American experience over seven decades. Scheduled in conjunction with the […]
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A conference held September 28 and 29, 2023, brought together a national group of artists and museum professionals for a series of plenaries and workshops on rethinking museum work, focusing on Indigenous practices and modes of working. The Block was proud to co-organize the event with The Field Museum and the Center for Native American and […]
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Since its January 2022 exhibition, A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence, The Block Museum has partnered with Feinberg School of Medicine palliative care physicians Gordon Wood and Joshua Hauser in an interdisciplinary collaboration that foregrounds the use of art in educating medical professionals. Following their June gallery talk, Perspectives on Art, Medicine, […]
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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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How can funding models and grant-writing processes be more equitable and inclusive? At The Block, collaborators Kate Hadley Toftness and Lois Taylor Biggs (Cherokee Nation and White Earth Ojibwe) are challenging traditional approaches to fundraising with practices informed by Indigenous practices of collaboration, reciprocity, and sustained dialogue. In the below essay, originally published on the American […]
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Academic libraries and museums foster many outstanding collaborations supporting teaching, learning, and research within their respective institutions. These collaborations, like other progressive activities, require significant invisible labor, caretaking, and resources that have not always been documented. A new publication from The American Library Association titled Cultural Heritage and the Campus Community: Academic Libraries and Museums in […]
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In early November, the Block Museum Student Associates (BMSAs) visited the Shorefront Legacy Center to hear from Founder Dino Robinson Jr. on the role of a community archive. Founded in 2002, Shorefront Legacy Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting, preserving, and educating visitors on Black histories from Chicago’s suburban North Shore communities. Facilitated […]
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