presentation on haffenreffer museum at brown commencement forum may 2012

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1 Commencement Forum May 2012 Teaching and Learning with Art and Artifact Sarah Ganz Blythe, director of education, RISD Museum of Art Elizabeth Hoover, visiting assistant professor, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Steven Lubar, director, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Emily Stokes-Rees, postdoctoral fellow, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

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Commencement ForumMay 2012

Teaching and Learning with

Art and Artifact

Sarah Ganz Blythe, director of education, RISD Museum of Art

Elizabeth Hoover, visiting assistant professor, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

Steven Lubar, director, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

Emily Stokes-Rees, postdoctoral fellow, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

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New directions at the Haffenreffer Museum

Steven Lubar

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Haffenreffer Museum at

Manning Hall

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Some history

1920: Founded as King Philip Museum by Rudolph Haffenreffer, collector

1955: Given to Brown – located 20 miles from campus in Bristol, RI

2005: Manning Hall gallery, on the main green

2008: Bristol facility closed to public; becomes Collections Research Center

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Collections Research Center at Bristol,

Rhode Island

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Working with faculty

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Working with faculty

For a university museum to become essential to the university, it must provide support for the core goals of the university: research, teaching, and learning

But faculty don’t know how to work with artifacts

We need to help them re-imagine their research and teacing with objects...

… and we need to re-imagine the museum around their research and teaching

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Working with faculty

Work with faculty from a wide range of disciplines

Provide easy and convenient access to original artifacts and works of art, and make it easy to use them

Read course descriptions, syllabi, and find objects for them

Bring objects to class, bring class to objects

Co-teach the class

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Faculty exhibitions

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Class Exhibitions

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Class Exhibitions

Make it easy

Clear guidelines Schedules Labels Objects Dates

Narrow the options

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Teaching with objects

Class assignments Object descriptions

Writing assignments Close looking

Object comparisons Object drawing

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Working with students

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Undergraduate student group projects

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Graduate student group projects

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Dissertation exhibition projects

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Student assistants on education projects

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Student collectors

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Student collections interns

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CultureLab

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Cataloging in Public

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“Culture Lab has been a great experience, because it has brought a tangible, hands-on component to in-class work and discussion. I think Culture Lab adds another dimension to learning in this way, that in many humanities classes, is hard to accomplish….

Usually, books and articles are my tools to learn. Now, I get to see and touch real objects from the period I am studying, which is a bit more exciting than flipping through the pages of a textbook.”

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Reorienting the museum

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Reflective practice!

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Beyond the museum building!

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Reach out! Let go!

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