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December 21, 2017
Katie Loney, 18 December 2017As a first-year graduate student in History of Art and Architecture, I didn’t know quite what to...
December 21, 2017
Ryan Lewis, 14 December 2017The photograph of the bombed mihrab created a mystery that took multiple people to solve, and it took...
December 15, 2017
Jaime Viens, 11 December 2017While our exhibition, Narratives of the Nationality Rooms, has primarily focused on the social and...
December 14, 2017
Raka Sarkar, 10 December 2017The garments that people choose to wear each day symbolize many things: personal taste, social...
December 14, 2017
Heather Alvarado, 5 December 2017
Working with an exhibition for the first time I witnessed some of the joys and some of the...
December 11, 2017
Zoe Creamer, 21 November 2017Giving a gallery talk for the Chinese Nationality Room Committee seemed like a big undertaking. How...
December 10, 2017
Ryan Lewis, 28 November 2017As our exhibition is now fully open to the public, I think it is important to look back at the very...
December 10, 2017
Ilana McAfoos, 9 December 2017Standing in the gallery at the closing reception, I was struck by how fast this whole process has...
December 10, 2017
Molly Wight, 7 December 2017When my planning group was looking through the African Heritage Room archival documents for items to...
December 10, 2017
Dr. Proctor’s illuminative words on the inherent difficulties of the African Heritage Room Abby Brady, 6 December 2017 Over the...
December 4, 2017
Morgan Benner The gallery opening has come and gone and the exhibition has been open to the public for several weeks now....
December 4, 2017
Darcy Foster, 14 November 2017The Narratives of the Nationality Rooms: Identity and Immigration in Pittsburgh exhibit is the result...
December 4, 2017
Geoff Mansfield, 21 November 2017 Looking back through the previous two months from the start of the planning, into the late...
December 4, 2017
Emily MarturanoDuring the planning of this exhibit, an idea was formed that we should include some sort of interactive aspect to...
December 4, 2017
Kendall Dunn, 13 November 2017 After many weeks of editing floorplans, dictating objects to each group, and writing labels ten...
November 29, 2017
Author: Ana Rodríguez CastilloProject Coordinator, Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh, Department of History of Art and ...
November 29, 2017
PhD Student in History of Art and Architecture
Late October, Alex Taylor and Collecting Knowledge Pittsburgh gave me the...
November 29, 2017
Museum Studies Intern at the University Library System (University of Pittsburgh Archives Service Center) - Fall 2017Coming into...
November 29, 2017
Author: Alex J. TaylorAssistant Professor and Academic Curator, Department of History of Art and ArchitectureOn 20 November,...
November 27, 2017
On Saturday November 12th, I had the pleasure of joining the History of Art and Architecture department on a trip to the Cleveland...
November 26, 2017
Museum Studies Intern at The Andy Warhol Museum - Fall 2017When I began my undergraduate career at the University of Pittsburgh,...
November 26, 2017
Museum Studies Intern at The Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Fall 2017Not to sound dramatic, but this semester I was a part of...
November 26, 2017
Museum Studies Intern at the University Art Gallery - Fall 2017I first read the title on an overcrowded spreadsheet, interesting,...
November 26, 2017
Museum Studies Intern at The Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology - Fall 2017The Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology is...
November 26, 2017
Museum Studies Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Fall 2017Finally, working in Walton Hall in the Carnegie Museum...
November 26, 2017
Museum Studies Intern at the University Library System (University of Pittsburgh Archive Service Center) - Fall 2017This semester I...
November 26, 2017
Museum Studies Intern at Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area - Fall 2017My experience working with the Rivers of Steel National...
November 25, 2017
Kenneth Wahrenberger, 14 November 2017It has now been several days since our class has opened the Narratives of the Nationality...
November 15, 2017
Patricia Smith. November 7, 2017
Conservation is often an essential part of museum and gallery work that is often overlooked...
November 15, 2017
Xander Schempf, 24 October and 6 November 2017October 24As a class, we are currently in the stages right before the show really...
November 15, 2017
Wendi Yu, 7 November 2017When you look at the vitrine that is filled with a set of ceremonial keys from the Nationality Rooms, an...
November 10, 2017
Author: Eliza WickAndrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Summer 2017I came into my...
November 8, 2017
This past week, going into this week has been dedicated to finishing up the installation at the gallery. Everyone is working hard...
November 8, 2017
Darien Pepple, 24 October 2017In the past week, we have taken a few significant steps in our exhibition production process. First,...
November 8, 2017
Tianni Wang, 25 October 2017It is widely known that traditional handmade Japanese dolls are great choices as souvenirs for foreign...
November 8, 2017
Emily Campbell, 3 November 2017Having never put an exhibition together, this experience allowed me to think about gallery spaces in...
October 31, 2017
It was a very busy week last week for the class! This past week was spent in the gallery discussing and finalizing the installation...
October 27, 2017
Author: Kendall DunnMuseum Studies Intern at Contemporary Craft - Fall 2017Through my fall internship at Contemporary Craft, I have...
October 27, 2017
Author: Ben Ogrodnik2017-2018 Mellon Fellow in Curation and EducationDuring a volatile political climate, where public attention...
October 24, 2017
Author: Golnar TouskiGraduate student. History of Art and ArchitectureFarhad Moshiri: Go West, an exhibition curated by Jose Carlos...