Exhibition Stories

Color Tests and Cookbooks: Inside the Frankenthaler Archives

This spring, Corinne Granof, Block Museum Academic Curator and Stephanie S. E. Lee, 2024-25 Art History Graduate Fellow, spent a day at the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York, gathering research for the exhibition Pouring, Spilling, Bleeding: Helen Frankenthaler and Artists’ Experiments on Paper, opening at The Block in fall 2025. The visit offered insight […]

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Our Community, Partnerships, Student Associates

“The Complications of Community”: Student Associates visit Shorefront Legacy Center

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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