Belonging, storytelling, and collaboration take center stage at national gathering of academic museums. From June 24–26, 2025, a cross-departmental team from The Block Museum of Art—including Erin Northington (Campus and Community Education), Teagan Harris (Terra Engagement Fellow), Lindsay Bosch (Communications), and Kirsten Lopez (Collections and Digital Interpretation)—attended the annual conference of the Association of Academic […]
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In addition to their work shaping The Block’s exhibitions and programming, staff members often participate in professional activities in the broader museum field. In October, Erin Northington, Susan and Stephen Wilson Associate Director, Campus and Community Education and Engagement, traveled to Arizona to participate in the Photography Network’s fourth annual conference. Erin took a moment […]
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Northwestern students share their “Progressive” vision for museum exhibition On February 14th, 2020, Northwestern University students Meghan Clare Considine, Emily Rose Andrey, Nicholas Liou, and Brianna Heath presented their ongoing research in a poster session at 108th College Art Association Annual Conference. Their poster “Caravans of Gold: Making a Progressive Web App Exhibition on Medieval […]
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The Block Museum was thrilled to serve as one of many partners for the 2017 Northwestern University Black Arts Initiative conference “Black Arts International: Temporalities and Territories (October 9-13). This week-long event focused on art and scholarship of the black diaspora around the world. Conference presenters considered notions of time, space, and place and the ways in […]
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