Meet Vicky Wang, a Northwestern University student majoring in Art History with a minor in Art Theory and Practice and pursuing the Segal Design Certificate in the McCormick School of Engineering. Originally from Taipei, Taiwan, Vicky is interested in the intersection of Japanese and Western art, as well as the relationship between fashion and social […]
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Meet Angelina Randazzo, a Northwestern University senior studying Radio/Television/Film and earning a certificate in Integrated Marketing Communications. A filmmaker from Metro Detroit, Angelina is interested in how moving-image work, photography, and documentation intersect with contemporary art. As a curatorial intern at The Block Museum of Art, she is exploring those connections within the museum’s collection, […]
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Two new audio stops on The Block Museum of Art’s Campus Art Walk invite visitors to look closely at outdoor sculptures by Jesús Moroles and Thomas Sternal. The new entries were researched, written, and recorded by 2025–26 Block Museum curatorial interns Muyang Chen (Anthropology and Art History ’26) and Aja Frazier (History and Asian Languages […]
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This past winter quarter, Block Cinema invited its undergraduate student workers to take on a new kind of assignment: to respond, in their own voices, to films in the Exhausted America series. The series, inspired by the work of Professor Heather Hendershot, gathered films that hold a mirror to moments of national weariness and disillusionment. […]
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On May 14, the Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine hosted artist and anthropologist Teresa Montoya (Diné, born 1984) for its 5th Annual Carlos Montezuma Native Health Lecture, co-sponsored by The Block and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR). The lecture series is […]
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In Spring 2026, Northwestern senior Maggie Munday Odom (Theatre, English Creative Writing, Environmental Policy and Culture, and Religious Studies) traveled with Erin Northington, The Block Museum’s Susan and Stephen Wilson Associate Director of Campus and Community Education and Engagement, to attend The Art of Encounter: Exploring Spiritual Engagement with Art Objects, a symposium hosted by […]
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This spring, Associate Professor Carolyn Tang Kmet brought her Medill Integrated Marketing Communications graduate students to The Block for an experiential learning module exploring how consumers engage with physical, digital, and spatial representations of the same object. The project, led by Kmet and developed in partnership with Sony XYN and Northwestern Emerging Technologies Lab, gave […]
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“Wildcats in Water” is a monthly seminar series hosted by NU Water at Northwestern University, showcasing student and faculty research on water technology and policy. It serves as a hub for collaborative research on water security, quality, and sustainability On April 8, the Wildcats in Water student seminar series, which typically hears from scientists and researchers, looked at […]
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Each year, the Art Institute of Chicago hosts University PartnerFest, an open day of programming and networking opportunities for university students interested in museum careers. As part of PartnerFest programming, students are invited to give gallery talks about chosen works of art on view at the Art Institute. On February 21, 2026, Block Student Associates Ethan Bledsoe […]
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Each year, the Art Institute of Chicago hosts University PartnerFest, an open day of programming and networking opportunities for university students interested in museum careers. As part of PartnerFest programming, students are invited to give gallery talks about chosen works of art on view at the Art Institute. On February 21, 2026, Block Student Associates Ethan Bledsoe […]
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