Exhibition Seminar

A highlight of the art history curriculum is the Exhibition Seminar, a rare opportunity for undergraduate students to curate a professional exhibition using objects in the Grinnell College Art Collection. The seminar culminates in a show in the Faulconer Gallery and in the publication of a catalogue students have researched, written, and produced. Links to sample pages from previous Exhibition Seminar catalogues are below.

Students are currently planning an exhibition of portable arts (manuscripts, textiles, ceramics) of the pre-modern Eastern Mediterranean and Islamic world in the context of 19th and 20th century collecting practices. The exhibition will go up in January 2023 in the Grinnell College Museum of Art.

En Voyage Hybridity and Vodou in Haitian Art

En Voyage
Hybridity and Vodou in Haitian Art

Jan. 25–March 18, 2018

Sample pages from the En Voyage catalog (PDF)

 

Cover of Against Reason exhibition catalog

Against Reason

April 3–August 2, 2015

Sample pages from the Against Reason catalog (PDF)

Cover of Repeat, Reveal, React: Identities in Flux exhibition catalog

Repeat, Reveal, React: Identities in Flux

January 29-March 21, 2010
Sample pages from the Repeat, Reveal, React catalog (PDF)

Cover of Pranesi exhibition cover

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Grandeur and Fantasy: Vision and Views of Rome

January 22-February 27, 2007

Sample pages from the Giovanni Battista Piranesi catalog (PDF)

Cover of Goya exhibition catalog

I Saw It: The Invented Reality of
Goya's Disasters of War

August 13-September 12, 2004

Sample pages from the I Saw It catalog (PDF)

Cover of Walking a Tightrope exhibition catalog

Walking a Tightrope:
German Expressionist Printmaking 1904–1928

April 1-April 21, 2002

Sample pages from the Walking a Tightrope catalog (PDF)

Cover of Ghost Dance exhibition catalog

Ghost Dance: Exhibiting Paradox

January 28-March 17, 2000

Sample pages from the Ghost Dance catalog (PDF)

Cover of In a New Light exhibition catalog

In a New Light
African Art at Grinnell College

May 1-May 31, 1997

Sample pages from the In a New Light catalog (PDF)

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