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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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Elaborately adorned helmets, large-scale sculptural garments draped on tipi poles, beaded panels, tapestries, weavings, abstract geometric paintings and a new film greet visitors in an outpouring of color to the Wellin Museum’s fall exhibition.
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The American Alliance of Museums featured a two-year, mixed-method, regional study conducted by Wellin Museum educator Amber Geary that posed the question, “What makes teachers choose to use a museum as part of their curriculum?”
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Participating in the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art docent program has opened quite a few doors this summer for Hamilton students including at the Smithsonian, Guggenheim, American Museum of Natural History, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary (ICA) Art in Boston.
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Amber Geary, the Andrew W. Mellon Educator for School and Community Programs at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, presented at the annual conference of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG).
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Seventeen senior docents at the Wellin Museum of Art graduated this past weekend, one of the largest groups since the museum’s opening five years ago.
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In Margarita Cabrera’s exhibit “Space in Between” at the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, viewers can catch a colorful glimpse of the Southwestern desert through the eyes of immigrants. The exhibit features fabric cacti sculptures decorated with vibrant stitching and symbolic images from the experiences of Latin American immigrants who came to the United States.
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Two new exhibits opened on Feb. 10 at The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art. This Place and Margarita Cabrera: Space in Between will be on view through June 10.
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The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art presents two concurrent exhibitions through June 10. The work within both exhibitions reflects current issues related to history, geography, boundaries, immigration, citizenship, community, and culture, among others.
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