Ashleigh Deosaran, a Northwestern doctoral student in Art History and curator of The Block Museum’s The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern exhibit knew early on that Ayé Aton’s painting Untitled (1976) would be a keystone of the exhibition. The piece came to The Block on loan from the collection […]
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In Spring 2023 The Block opened The Living Image of Sound: Notes on Jazz and Protest at Northwestern a concise exhibition exploring the intersections of visual art, music, and student-led social justice movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibition features artwork and ephemera related to the trailblazing poet and musician Sun Ra and […]
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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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