Earlier this week, the Barry Art Museum opened one of its biggest and smallest exhibitions to date. How did we manage to do both at the same time, you ask? By focusing on dollhouses, that’s how! Let’s take a look at our newest exhibition, Dollhaus: Reimagining the Domestic Space. About the Exhibition Dollhouses and miniature… Continue reading Dollhaus: A New Exhibition Now on View
Category: Museums
My First UFDC Convention
Speed-walking through a hotel with a Martha Chase hospital doll in tow wasn’t how I’d anticipated spending last week in Kansas City. That said, if you’d told me a year ago that in twelve months I’d go from archival deep dives of exhibition histories to undertaking doll-fueled relay races, I wouldn’t have rolled my eyes… Continue reading My First UFDC Convention
Museum Work: Current and Long-Term Projects II
Last week I talked about some of my current projects at the Barry Art Museum. For that post, I focused on collections research in preparation for an upcoming publication about the Museum, and upcoming exhibitions. This week, we’ll look at projects relating to our upcoming expansion as well as ongoing initiatives and objectives. Museum Work,… Continue reading Museum Work: Current and Long-Term Projects II
Museum Work: Current and Long-Term Projects I
I haven’t said much about my curatorial work on this blog since announcing my new position back in January. Beyond that introductory post and an overview of our current maritime show, I really haven’t said much at all. That doesn’t mean I don’t have anything going on though. On the contrary, I’ve got several projects… Continue reading Museum Work: Current and Long-Term Projects I
Message in a Bottle: Now on View
Last month’s dissertation update might have suggested that I haven’t been doing much lately while waiting for the defense. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Over at the Barry Art Museum we’ve just celebrated the opening of our latest exhibition, Message in a Bottle. Let’s take a look! About Message in a Bottle Message… Continue reading Message in a Bottle: Now on View
Curator of Art: My New Role at the Barry Art Museum
As I mentioned in my annual New Year’s post, I’ve got signifcant changes happening in my life this year. Among the most exciting developments is that I’m returning to museum work full-time as the inaugural Curator of Art at the Barry Art Museum, a role I officially started on January 10th. Today, let’s take a… Continue reading Curator of Art: My New Role at the Barry Art Museum
Major Change and Continuity: 2024 Preview
Last week I reflected on all the dissertation-related activity that happened in 2023. I have no plans of slowing down though. If anything, 2024 is shaping up to be as momentous as my 2018 decision to leave Roswell and come to William & Mary. It should be a year full of both significant change and… Continue reading Major Change and Continuity: 2024 Preview
Madame Alexander at 100: Now on View
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about the Barry Art Museum, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on projects for them. Earlier this week, we opened a new doll exhibition, Fashioning Innovation: Madame Alexander at 100. Let’s check it out! About Madame Alexander Born in New York, Beatrice Alexander (1895-1990) was the… Continue reading Madame Alexander at 100: Now on View
Now on View: The Great Exhibition
On January 27, the Barry Art Museum opened its latest temporary exhibition in the Doll Gallery, The Great Exhibition: Bébés at the Barry. Spotlighting dolls from the permanent collection, I started working on this show as soon as Rhonda Holy Bear: Artist and Story-Keeper opened. For the past few months, when I haven’t been working… Continue reading Now on View: The Great Exhibition
Museums & Crisis: October Update
In my last update about my Museums & Crisis course, I talked about our initial foundations unit and the adjustments I’d started making in response to student interests and needs. Now that we’ve had a few weeks to get into the course’s primary contents, let’s take a look at what we’ve been doing. We first… Continue reading Museums & Crisis: October Update