Bringing Digital Art Experiences To You
Bringing Digital Art Experiences To You
Hi, I’m Gracyn Bird, a Museum Interpretation Assistant at The Trout Gallery. For this Artful Conversation post I interviewed Vincent Stephens, director of The Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity about the role that art has played in his life and work. Gracyn: So, today I want to talk to you about …
Unintentional Art is a developing image and text based dialogue series that can be found across The Trout Gallery’s social media. The photo series was created by our 2020 Trout Gallery Student Assistants as an assignment in our Training Week. In teams, our students submitted different proposals for social media engagement. Danielle Paz, a Spanish …
We reached out to award-winning poet and Dickinson College Poet-in Residence and Professor of Creative Writing, Adrienne Su, to ask if she might suggest a “poetic pairing” for our Soul Food page. In this case, Su picked this work form our collection by Elliot Erwitt, and paired it with the following poem by William E. …
The inspiration for this project is a print by Pablo Picasso entitled Dove of Peace with Rainbow (Colombe Volant). This 1952 color lithograph shows Picasso’s famous peace dove in front of an arching rainbow. Initially, a live white dove was given to Picasso as a gift from the artist, Matisse. Picasso used the dove …
Ever been to a friend’s house and wonder why all the picture frames are hovering mere inches from the ceiling or way above the couch? Or is that your house? Do you have trouble keeping your frames from sliding off center or have you put off that dreaded project of hanging all those pictures from …
How do you pack an ornate bronze sculpture or a large plaster frame for a trip across country on a truck? “Carefully” is the old joke. If you have ever been to my office you might have noticed an old packing crate sitting in the corner that has been repurposed as a table. The spray …
We’re starting off the week with a Work from Home Student Feature! Grace Ingle is one of our Spanish Assistants, majoring in Russian and Middle Eastern Studies with a minor in Arabic. She’s been tutoring students from home, and here’s what she shared with us about the experience! Two of my peers and I …
Here’s how our staff members used this prompt from Luci Creative to make an at-home exhibition with his son! Collections Manager, James Bowman offers his thoughts on the project: What’s an exhibition designer/registrar to do when he is separated from his collection, can’t work in galleries on his next show, but is responsible for the education …