Bringing Digital Art Experiences To You
Bringing Digital Art Experiences To You
What was your original vision for the exhibition, Imagining The Divine: Religious Mythology and Art? I first started to think about this exhibition during my junior year and from the beginning I knew I wanted the show to focus on some aspect of religion. Since I’m a religion and archaeology double major I felt the …
Over the next couple of months we will be featuring previews of artworks created by Dickinson College senior Studio Art majors. The senior studio exhibition will open at The Trout Gallery on April 30th. Gracyn Bird, a Trout Interpretation Assistants who is also one of the talented Studio Art seniors, sat down with Emily Benson, …
Trout Interpretation Assistant Jackson Rhodes sat down with Dickinson’s newly-appointed Director of LGBTQ Services, Dr. Todd Nordgren. They discussed LGBTQ representation and how photographer Lissa Rivera is interacting with artistic traditions to tell new stories. Jackson: Art classes often provide comfortable environments for students to engage in discussions of social issues, political topics, and …
During an ordinary year at Dickinson, this long weekend—the midpoint break of Fall Pause—would be full of movement and smiles. Students would go home for some well-deserved rest, travel with friends, or relax in the quiet on-campus. Now, with the semester online, any plans are uncertain—and the stress of midterms lingers on. Are 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. …
Artist Steve Prince created this image as part of a larger body of work designed as an open letter to Americans calling them “to acknowledge their role within the fabric of the American family and to redress race, representation, and education with a new raiment woven of respect, truth and equality.” Consider Prince’s mission in …
In 1965 The Trout Gallery acquired a beautiful illuminated miniature featuring Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad. Little was known of this miniature at the time, but in 2017 a visiting professor of Islamic Art approached The Trout Gallery about using the object in one of her classes. During her session at The Gallery, she identified the …
Confined. Boxed in. Stuck. Trapped. These are some of the words that I hear friends use these days when they talk about home. Life in quarantine has dramatically shifted how many of us view the spaces we live in. In effect, our homes have become spaces of safety and protection and, by contrast, …