The Block Collects 2023
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
On view through Sunday, December 3rd
Every year The Block brings new works of art into the collection to support Northwestern University’s teaching and learning mission. Each work becomes part of an expanding resource that students, faculty, and Block audiences can engage with through classes, research visits, and exhibitions.
The works of art in this exhibition have been selected in dialogue with a student-led collecting project undertaken by the 2022-2023 Block Student Associates.
The BMSAs are an interdisciplinary group of Northwestern undergraduate students who serve as tour guides, public facilitators, and peer-to-peer ambassadors for the museum on campus. As in-house student advisors for museum staff, they help shape Block programming and projects. The yearly student-led acquisition provides the BMSA’s an opportunity to learn by doing.
In Academic Year 2023 the BMSAs decided to focus their acquisition process on work by artists whose practices address questions related to gender. Their final proposal included Derrick Woods-Morrow’s photograph Frederick on Lake Pontchartrain | after Lincoln Beach, on view in this exhibition. Morrow’s work is accompanied here by other works from The Block’s collection that offer multiple perspectives on this themes.
This exhibition will also be on view from January 26 to March 3, 2024.
Image info: Frederick on Lake Pontchartrain | after Lincoln Beach
Derrick Woods-Morrow
2019, printed 2023
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