The Block is delighted to welcome Uche Okpa-Iroha as the museum’s 2025–2026 graduate art history fellow. Uche is a PhD candidate in Art History at Northwestern University whose research explores the development of modes and theories of representation—how they have been historically constructed and how they continue to shape artistic and scholarly inquiry today. A […]
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Artist: Soo ShinTitle: Pas de Deux 3.13.24-4 (Pacific Ocean)Date: 2024Medium: Ink, Pacific Ocean water, paperCredit Line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Block Board of Advisors Endowment Fund purchase In 2024, Shin began work on Pas de Deux, a series of collaborative and experimental drawings. For these works, she constructed a floating wooden apparatus designed to fit […]
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The Block welcomes Madison Brown, a doctoral student in the Department of Screen Cultures, as the museum’s 2023-2024 graduate interdisciplinary fellow. Madison Brown’s research explores the politics of amateur media cultures through theories of memory, domesticity, and everyday life. Madison holds an MA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto. We took a moment to sit down […]
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In September 2022 the Block Museum welcomed Ashleigh Deosaran as a 2022-2023 graduate fellow. Block Museum Graduate Fellowships are offered to two graduate students annually, one from Art History and one from any department within the Graduate School. Fellows are integral members of the museum staff supporting projects through exhibition and collection research, curating, writing, […]
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In September 2020 the Block Museum welcomed Rikki Byrd as a 2020-2021 graduate fellow. Block Museum Graduate Fellowships are offered to two graduate students annually, one from Art History and one from any department within the Graduate School. Graduate Fellows are integral members of the museum staff and support projects through exhibition and collection research, curating, writing […]
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