Winter Term: Introduction to Museum Studies

By |February 14th, 2017|Africa, Archaeological, CE, Ceramics, DePauw University, Mixed-media, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, New media, Painting, Photography, Public Art/Monument, Sculpture, Textiles, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Works on paper|

Description: This course is intended to provide students with an overview of gallery/museum careers, an introduction to best practices as [...]

Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality

By |February 27th, 2017|Africa, Art & Art History, CE, Faculty, Full Semester, Mixed-media, New media, Oberlin College, Other, Painting, Photography, Public Art/Monument, Sculpture, Textiles, Women & Gender Studies, Writing Intensive|

Description: This course examines the role of visual culture in producing varied and often-contested concepts of sexuality in American society. [...]

Student Examples of Ways to Extract Meaning from Art

By |March 21st, 2017|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, Economics, English, Europe, Full Semester, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, History, Individual Assignment, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Urban Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper|

Description: Compiled from thirteen junior studio art majors, this list is the result of an assignment that asked the students [...]

Response-Centered Peer Review for Extended Object Labels

By |March 21st, 2017|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Economics, English, Europe, Full Semester, Geology, Group Assignment, Half Semester, History, Label Writing/Editing, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Senior Seminar, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Urban Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Response Centered Peer ReviewDescription: Adapted from "Engaged Ideas," by John C. Bean, this assignment pairs students in a response-centered editing [...]

Questions for Unidentified Objects

By |March 21st, 2017|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Economics, English, Europe, First Year Seminar, Full Semester, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, Half Semester, History, Individual Assignment, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, One Class Session, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Senior Seminar, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Two or More Class Sessions, Urban Studies, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: We often encounter objects about which there is no information. This list of questions can be utilized with students [...]

Poetry and Painting in the 17th Century

By |June 2nd, 2017|Art & Art History, CE, Classical Studies, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, English, Europe, Full Semester, Group Assignment, Label Writing/Editing, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Oberlin College, Object Study, One Class Session, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Two or More Class Sessions, Women & Gender Studies, Writing Intensive|

Description: In October 2015, Professor of English, Nicholas Jones asked students in his English Renaissance Poetry (ENGL 313) to write [...]

Observation Prompts for the Gallery/Museum Tour

By |July 14th, 2016|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, Economics, English, Europe, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, History, Individual Assignment, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, One Class Session, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Urban Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: This assignment breaks down the steps to close looking, from arrival at the gallery or museum to how to [...]

Music in the Galleries: Percussion @ Peeler

By |March 11th, 2017|Africa, Art & Art History, Asia, Australia, CE, Ceramics, DePauw University, Europe, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Middle East, Mixed-media, Museum Staff, Music, New media, North America, One Class Session, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, South America, Southeast Asia, Works on paper|

Description: The attached document briefly describes a successful partnership between the DePauw University Peeler Art Center and the DePauw School [...]

Museum Exhibition Workshop

By |July 14th, 2016|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Art & Art History, CE, Ceramics, DePauw University, History, Mixed-media, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Painting, Photography, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, Textiles, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Works on paper|

Description: This workshop will introduce students to many of the fundamental concepts behind the creation of a successful museum exhibition. [...]

Museum Cart for Russian Studies

By |July 15th, 2016|Anthropology/Archaeology, Art & Art History, Asia, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, DePauw University, Europe, Full Semester, Group Assignment, History, Individual Assignment, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Object Study, One Class Session, Other, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, Two or More Class Sessions|

Description: Oct 10, 2012 - Students examine and discuss ethnic objects from Eastern Europe as part of Professor Masha Belyavski-Frank's [...]

FS102: Academic Discourse II Writing for Art Exhibitions

By |August 3rd, 2017|2017 AAMG Annual Conference, Africa, Art & Art History, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Communication, English, Faculty, First Year Seminar, Full Semester, History, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, New media, Painting, Photography, Public Art/Monument, Sculpture, Sociology, Textiles, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: This course is designed to help you develop the writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills you will need for [...]

Extended Object Labels Assignment

By |August 12th, 2016|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, CE, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Faculty, Full Semester, History, Individual Assignment, Label Writing/Editing, Mixed-media, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Object Study, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Writing Intensive|

Description: Prepare an Extended Object Label for each of the objects you are addressing in our exhibition. You have been [...]

Dissecting Works of Art

By |June 22nd, 2017|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, DePauw University, Economics, English, Europe, First Year Seminar, Full Semester, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Half Semester, History, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, One Class Session, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Senior Seminar, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, Two or More Class Sessions, Urban Studies, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: This short assignment can be used in any exhibition in order to make students feel more comfortable discussing works [...]

Curating an Exhibition

By |February 27th, 2017|Art & Art History, CE, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Faculty, Full Semester, Mixed-media, New media, North America, Oberlin College, Other, Painting, Photography, Public Art/Monument, Sculpture, Textiles, Two or More Class Sessions, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: This is a semester-long class project in which students collectively curate a virtual exhibition using analytical concepts studied in [...]

Critiquing Museum Exhibitions

By |July 15th, 2016|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, DePauw University, Economics, English, Europe, Exhibition Critique, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, History, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, Urban Studies, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper|

Description: This assignment has been used to break students into groups as follows: Working in groups of three, choose one [...]