The Block is excited to congratulate the Middle Eastern North African (MENA) Student Association on their Winter 2023 Wildcat Impact Award. The Wildcat Impact Awards are given quarterly by the Office of Student Affairs to honor and recognize students and student organizations who have contributed to bettering student life, campus engagement and inclusivity at Northwestern. […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is thrilled to announce the receipt of a $100,000 grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in support of the upcoming Winter 2022 exhibition A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence. This is the second round of support the Warhol Foundation has presented […]
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The Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), has announced the Block Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, as a recipient of two of its highest honors . The exhibition was awarded a 2021 Award for Curatorial Excellence, which recognizes important curatorial contributions to the dissemination and understanding of African and […]
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On June 10, 2021 The Block Museum team cheered graduating Student Docent Coordinator Erin Claeys as she was recognized by her peers and the Office of Student Affairs with a 2021 Wildcat Impact Award for her work at the museum. Northwestern’s Annual Wildcat Impact Awards recognize students who have significantly contributed to improving the quality of student […]
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On February 12, 2020, The Association of American Publishers (AAP) unveiled finalists for the 2020 Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards honoring scholarly works published in 2019, comprising a total of 157 finalists across 49 subject categories. Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers’ annual PROSE Awards have recognized publishers who produce books, journals, and digital products of extraordinary […]
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The Block Museum was pleased to close out 2019 with some exciting press accolades. While the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time opened in January 2019, its reverberations had lasting effects in Chicago and throughout the art world. The groundbreaking exhibition was include on two prominent year end lists . The Chicago Tribune‘s Steve […]
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On November 19, 2019 the Block Museum of Art was honored to receive an award of “Superior Achievement in Best Practices” for its exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa from the Illinois Association of Museums. Karen E. Everingham, President of the Illinois Association of Museums Board […]
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“Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa,” co-published by The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University and Princeton University Press, has been short-listed for the prestigious Alice Award in publishing. The book, released in January 2019, is the companion publication to the exhibition of the same name. […]
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The publication Up is Down: Mid-Century Experiments in Advertising and Film at the Goldsholl Studio has received a 2019 Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). Corinne Granof, The Block’s curator of academic programs and co-editor of Up is Down, attended the 2019 AAMC conference and accepted the award. Co-editor Amy Beste, […]
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The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is pleased to announce the museum is the recipient of two 2018 MUSE Awards from the American Alliance of Museums. The Block Museum was presented with the Gold in the Honeysett and Din Student Award Category and the Bronze Award in the category of Audio Experiences. The […]
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