Maritime museums--Indiana--Jeffersonville; Museums--Collection management--Indiana--Jeffersonville; Howard Steamboat Museum
My project looks at the current state of collections at the Howard Steamboat Museum located in Jeffersonville, Indiana and how the staff can improve their collections care and management. It is imperative that collection management guidelines and...
Art museums--Collection management; Rowling, Charles, 1935-2008; Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
This Curatorial project examines issues that museums face in the documentation of permanent collections, using the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (KMAC) and its piece Angel, by Charles Rolwing, as specific examples. The project focuses on museum...
Twitter; Museum visitors--Services for--Technological innovations; Museums--Technological innovations; Online social networks; Museums--Marketing
With the evolution of social networks and technological innovations, services such as Twitter provide a platform for increased dialogue and participation. Micro-blogging features enable individuals and organizations to communicate directly,...
Identity (Philosophical concept) in art; Museum techniques; Museum exhibits--Social aspects; Museums--Social aspects
This thesis paper expands upon the aspects of identity and power explored in the exhibition that I curated, entitled "Being & Making: Artists Investigating Identity," at the Speed Art Museum. The developments on topics of identity...
Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919; Freer Gallery of Art
This qualifying paper examines the contradiction of a public museum dedicated to one man's vision of art collecting. Charles Lang Freer established the Freer Gallery of Art in 1906, regarded as the first national public art museum on the National...
In spring 2006, the Frazier International History Museum, in conjunction with the Ekstrom Library Photographic Archives at the University of Louisville, mounted an exhibit of 47 photographs taken by a young French foot soldier during World War I....
Warren, Edward Perry, 1860-1928; Art in universities and colleges--United States; Art museums--United States; Art--History--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States; Archaeology--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States; Art--Collectors and...
This dissertation assesses the influence of Edward Perry Warren (1860-
1928) on the development of collegiate collections of Greek and Roman art and the rise
of art history and archaeology in elite academic institutions in the United States....
Art--Economic aspects--Nigeria; Anatsui, El, 1944-; Nigeria--Foreign economic relations
This paper is specifically concerned with contemporary artist El Anatsui, and his impact upon the region in which he lives and works in Nsukka, Nigeria. El Anatsui's large-scale wall sculptures—created by joining recycled aluminum distillery...
Museum exhibits; Art--Study and teaching (Elementary); Color in art
Color is an important part of art and life, which can be utilized by the museum educator to engage visitors with the art. For the museum educator, development of appropriate programs and activities to meet the needs of their audience is a central...
Federal Art Project; Art and social action; Politics in art
This thesis project exhibition brought together Works Progress Administration prints
from the University of Louisville collection, as well as the University of Kentucky Art
Museum and Murray State University. The thirty-three works were...
Galleries & museums; Automobiles; Pedestrians; Sidewalks; Field Museum of Natural History
Field Museum of Natural History from a distance. Cars are headed to and from the museum, and people are seen on their way to and from the museum on the sidewalks. The museum is a large white marble building with many columns. There is a grassy area...
From the Sacred Gate, Kerameikos, [Athens, Greece]. "The latest work in the group is the Sphinx, which is dated to about 560 BC. All that we found [in spring 2002] was the upper part of the body, partly preserved wings, and the head. We...
Excerpt from Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen website (http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/) regarding the sculpture shown here: Soft Shuttlecock. Collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Partial Gift, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, New...
Excerpt from Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen website (http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/) regarding the sculpture shown here: Soft Shuttlecock. Collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Partial Gift, Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, New...
Buildings; Galleries & museums; J.B. Speed Art Museum; Gates
Speed Museum entrance, University of Louisville, Belknap Campus, 1930. Part of the museum can be seen from a side angle at the end of a narrow drive lined by leafy trees. Here at the sides of the drive are two stone landmarks with low four-sided...
"Broodthaer's Musée d'Arte Moderne assumed various forms. The 'Department of Eagles', which contained the exhibits pictured here, had further permutations in other venues. In a Düsseldorf showing of 1970 the museum's 'nineteenth-century'...
Buildings; Galleries & museums; J.B. Speed Art Museum
Speed Museum galleries, Louisville, Kentucky, 1930. Two sets of marble pillars flank the walls of each end of a short wide hall between two display rooms. The closer room houses paintings around the walls at fairly low height and has a small table...
Desks; Model ships; Mansions; Howard Steamboat Museum
Small secretary desk in the Howard Mansion, now the Howard Steamboat Museum, in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The desk has a fold down writing surface and pigeonholes for storage. A model of the sternwheeler BOAZ sits atop the desk.
Doors & doorways; Bowls (Tableware); Mansions; Howard Steamboat Museum
Cabin door, silver bowl and table, presumably from a steamboat, arranged for a picture in front of the Howard Mansion, now the Howard Steamboat Museum, in Jeffersonville, Indiana.
