This spring, Associate Professor Carolyn Tang Kmet brought her Medill Integrated Marketing Communications graduate students to The Block for an experiential learning module exploring how consumers engage with physical, digital, and spatial representations of the same object. The project, led by Kmet and developed in partnership with Sony XYN and Northwestern Emerging Technologies Lab, gave […]
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On January 16, 2025, Terra Engagement Fellow Teagan Harris gave a virtual talk placing Shan Goshorn’s Cherokee Burden Basket: A Song for Balance (2012) in dialogue with Louise Erdrich’s novel The Night Watchman, the 2024-2025 One Book, One Northwestern selection. This talk is the second in a series exploring connections between works in The Block’s […]
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In this online tour Block Museum curators Essi Rönkkö and Kate Hadley Toftness discuss the work of two artists whose works seek to reframe the narratives of history. The discussion focuses on the work of Shan Goshorn and Rosalie Favell, two contemporary artists presenting art as a critical intervention in the histories of harm and […]
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