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Every day of her internship, Mary Bei Prince ’20 interacts with Thomas Nast, the nineteenth-century cartoonist who developed visual archetypes such as the Republican elephant, Democratic donkey, Uncle Sam, and Santa Claus.
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On the first day of his civil procedures course, students examined a case in which a judge spoke of the “sword of Damocles,” a reference that was perfectly clear to Teddy Altman ’15 but not, it seems, to the rest of his Boston College Law School class.
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Katherine Alcauskas, collections curator and exhibitions manager at the Wellin Museum of Art, recently participated in a professional workshop on “The Potential of Technical Studies and Conservation for Prints and Drawings Curatorship.”
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Director of the Wellin Museum of Art Tracy Adler and Katherine Alcauskas, the Wellin’s collections curator and exhibitions manager, recently participated in a conference on “Teaching & Learning with Museum Exhibitions—Innovations across the Disciplines.”
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Sime’s piece titled Flowers & Roots, located on the Wellin’s Selch Terrace, is made out of bronze, cement, and repurposed technological elements like computer motherboards and electrical wire.
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The Wellin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, Theaters of Fiction – works that address both the theater and opera’s historic associations with power, privilege, and wealth and those that represent sites of more democratic and popular entertainment – opens on Saturday, Feb. 16.
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Students, alumni, faculty, and staff as well as the College’s many centers, activities, and achievements were regularly noted and celebrated in 2018 by national media outlets.
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From September through December, the Wellin Museum’s Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day exhibition attracted a continuous flow of media attention.
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This semester, the museum will host nearly 40 class sessions from 18 different courses that have incorporated Jeffrey Gibson’s work into their curriculum.
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Jeffrey Gibson, the artist behind the Wellin Museum’s latest exhibition, attended an Artist Discussion in the Barrett Lab Theater on Sept. 8 as part of the opening events. Accompanied by the museum’s curator, Tracey Adler, Gibson described his experience in pulling together the exhibition. “It was challenging for a number of reasons, and part of it is because of the high level of details being considered.” Gibson works with materials ranging from paintings and sculptures to garments and film.
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