On May 31, the Block Museum team proudly celebrated graduating senior Chayda Harding (History ’22) as they were recognized by their peers and the Office of Student Affairs with a prestigious 2022 Wildcat Impact Award for their work as the Block Museum Student Associates Program and Tours Coordinator. Chayda was recognized for embodying the Northwestern value […]
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Lois Taylor Biggs, The Block Museum’s Terra Foundation Curatorial Research fellow, was recently chosen as the recipient of C Magazine and the Indigenous Curatorial Collective’s inaugural Indigenous Art Writing Award. C Magazine, established in 1984, emphasizes the work of writers and artists from Black, Indigenous, diasporic, and other equity-seeking communities in a space committed to historically engaged, imaginative critical […]
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In April 2020 the Association of Art Museum Curators announced the Block Museum exhibition publication Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa as a recipient of the 2020 Award for Excellence. The annual, peer-juried award recognizes curators from around the country for groundbreaking projects that have advanced new […]
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