Faculty
Marion Goethals, Director; Katy Kline, Associate Director
TAs, Betsy Athens, Yale; Jason Vrooman, NYU
Staff, Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) with Ann Musser, Associate Director of Academic Programs and Public Education
Week I |
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Sunday June 12 |
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10 – 5:30 | Check-in at Hubbard House |
6:00 | Welcome dinner at Lamont House |
After dinner | House meeting at Hubbard |
Monday June 13 |
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9 – 12 |
Introduction – Marion Goethals, Katy Kline |
1 – 5 Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA)/Hillyer |
Behind the scenes tours, and presentations by museum staff |
Tuesday June 14 |
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SCMA/Hillyer tours |
Behind the scenes tours, and presentations by museum staff, continued |
12:15 | Lunch at Riff’s Café in the Brown Fine Arts Center |
1:00 – 2:30 | Other Resources, Tours. |
3:00 | Continue SCMA tours |
Wednesday June 15 |
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9 – 12 Hillyer 109 |
Governance, Marion Goethals |
1 – 5 Hillyer 109 | Exhibiting, Katy Kline |
Thursday June 16 |
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Trip | Yale University Art Gallery and Florence Griswold Museum |
Friday June 17 |
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9 – 12 Hillyer 109 and SCMA |
Class Exhibition, Marion Goethals, Katy Kline, Ann Musser |
1 – 5 Hillyer 109 and outside | Working in Groups, Bob Wright, Assoc. Director of Human Resources, Williams College |
Week II |
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Monday June 20 | Writing Assignment One due |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 | Audience, Marion Goethals, Allison Berkeley, Manager of Marketing and Public Relations, Worcester Art Museum |
1 – 2 Hillyer 109 | Trip Preview, New York, part one |
2 – 4 SCMA | Exhibition Practicum: SCMA mentors meeting with exhibition practicum teams |
Tuesday June 21 | |
9 – 12 SMCA | Education, Ann Musser |
1 – 5 Hillyer 109 | Collections I, Katy Kline, Aprile Gallant, SCMA Curator of Prints, Drawings, Photographs Collecting: Defining collecting parameters; relation to mission, various means of acquisitions: gifts, bequest, transfer, including pro-active acquisitions: purchase--auction houses, galleries, private dealers, art advisors, art fairs. Trip Preview, New York, part two |
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Wednesday June 22 | |
Trip | NYC, with dinner at collector’s residence The Museum of Arts and Design, curator; The Frick, curator |
Thursday June 23 |
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Trip, continued | NYC, with early evening Graduate School Panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, art conservator, Whitney Museum of American Art, educators |
Friday June 24 | |
Trip, continued | NYC, D.C. Moore Gallery; Rubin Museum (Art of the Himalaya), curator, museum on own |
Saturday June 25 | |
Trip, continued | NYC, return late afternoon Storm King Sculpture Center |
Week III |
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Monday June 27 | Writing Assignment Two due |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 | Writing and Publishing, Susan Rossen, Director Emerita of Publications, Art Institute of Chicago |
1 – 2 | New York trip review |
Afternoon | Exhibition Practicum |
7 – 8 Washburn House Computer Lab | InDesign Workshop (optional) with Jessie Magyar |
Tuesday June 28 | |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 | Collections II, Katy Kline |
1 – 2 Hillyer 109 | Trip Preview: Boston |
2 – 5 SCMA | Conservation, David Dempsey In-class technical examination of original objects from the SCMA collection |
Wednesday June 29 |
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Trip | Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, American Wing, curatorial, provenance; Isabella Stewart Gardner, building expansion
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Thursday June 30 | |
Boston, Peabody Essex Museum, Chinese curator; Skinner’s Auction House | |
Friday July 1 | |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 | Financial Pictures |
Afternoon | Individual faculty appointments |
Week IV |
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Monday July 4 HOLIDAY | |
Neilson Library open over weekend, no evenings, check hours |
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Tuesday July 5 | Writing Assignment Three due |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 |
Planning and Evaluating, Marion Goethals |
1-2 Hillyer 109 | Trip Preview: Williamstown and North Adams |
Afternoon | Exhibition Practicum |
7-9 Hillyer 103 | Graduate School panel |
Wednesday July 6 |
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Career Exploration (Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, Eric Carle Museum, Emily Dickinson Museum, Mead Art Museum, University Art Museum, Historic Deerfield, Smith College Museum) |
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Thursday July 7 | |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 | Architecture, Katy Kline, David Dempsey |
Afternoon | Exhibition Practicum [FYI! Nielson Library closed, Sat. July 9 and Sun. July 10] |
Friday July 8 | |
Trip | Williamstown and North Adams, MA |
Week V |
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Monday July 11 | Writing Assignment Four due |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 | Ethics, Katy Kline |
Afternoon | Exhibition Practicum |
2:00 SCMA | Installation workshop |
Tuesday July 12 | |
Career Exploration (Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, Eric Carle Museum, Emily Dickinson Museum, Mead Art Museum, University Art Museum, Historic Deerfield, Smith College Museum) |
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Wednesday July 13 | |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 | History of American Museums, Marion Goethals Founding of civic museums; establishment of private museums; John Cotton Dana; museum visit to see Guerrila Girls posters; role of state, local and federal governments; proliferation of new museums; shifts in the future? Trip Preview: Hartford and Springfield |
1 – 2:30 Hillyer 109 | Career Counseling, Janice Schell, Assistant Director, Smith College Career Development |
Thursday July 14 | |
Trip | Hartford and Springfield Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, strategic planning; Springfield (MA) Museums, curator and director |
Friday July 15 | |
9 – 12 Hillyer 109 | What’s Next? Tom Sokolowski, Director Emeritus, The Warhol Museum |
Afternoon | Individual faculty appointments |
Week VI |
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Monday July 18 | Writing Assignment Five due |
9 – 12 Paradise Road | Last Questions, Marion Goethals, Katy Kline Trip review |
Afternoon | Exhibition Practicum |
Tuesday July 19 |
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Exhibition Practicum | |
Wednesday July 20 |
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Exhibition Practicum | |
Thursday July 21 | Writing Assignment Six due |
10 – 12 SCMA, Graham Hall | Presentation in gallery of SIAMS 2011 exhibition to SCMA staff and faculty Graduation rehearsal |
1:30 Hillyer 109 | Written program evaluations |
Friday July 22 GRADUATION | |
10:00 Graham Hall and SCMA | adjourn by 1:00 or so |