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OBJECTIVES:
OBJECTIVES:
- Evaluate how records are created, stored, and utilized by historians and artists alike.
- National Portrait Gallery - One Life: Sylvia Plath, Antebellum Portraits by Matthew Brady
- The National Museum of American History - Within These Walls
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
SCHEDULE:
SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, Feb 6 Day 2
7:45 Memoryscapes Class Meet @ Roomies (bring snacks and money for metro and lunch)
8:00 Travel to Wiehle-Reston Metro Station - 1862 Wiehle Avenue Reston, VA 20190
10:00-11:00 Visit The National Portrait Gallery - 8th St NW & F St NW, Washington, DC 20001
11:00-12:00 Lunch
12:00-1:00 Visit The National Museum of American History - 1300 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC 20560
1:00-3:00 Visit the National Museum of Women in the Arts - 1250 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005
5:00 Arrive back on campus for free time
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:00-9:00. Fireside Games and Cocoa: Board Games:Scrabble,etc.-Roomies / Movies - Dorms
One Life: Sylvia Plath
One Life: Sylvia Plath
“One Life: Sylvia Plath” is the first exploration of the poet and writer’s life in an art and history museum. The exhibition reveals how Plath shaped her identity visually as she came of age as a writer in the 1950s. Visitors will get a look into Plath’s personal life and her dualistic nature she explained as her “brown-haired” and “platinum” personalities.
Through personal letters, her own artwork, family photographs and relevant objects, this exhibition highlights Plath’s struggle to understand her own self and to navigate the societal pressures placed on young women during her time. Her Smith College thesis, “The Magic Mirror: A Study of the Double in Two of Dostoevsky’s Novels,” suggests that she took an academic approach to studying her own dualities.
The exhibition features a carefully selected array of images and objects from the Plath archives at Smith College and Indiana University's Lilly Library, two collections that have never been brought together before in a museum exhibition. Dorothy Moss, curator of painting and sculpture at the Portrait Gallery, is curator of this show, joined by guest co-curator Karen Kukil, associate curator of rare books and manuscripts at Smith College.
Antebellum Portraits by
Antebellum Portraits by
Mathew Brady
Mathew Brady
June 16, 2017 - June 3, 2018
First floor
Mathew Brady may be best known today for his Civil War–era photographs, but he established his reputation as an internationally acclaimed portrait photographer more than a decade before the war. Brady opened his first daguerreotype portrait studio in New York City in 1844, just five years after the introduction of the first commercially practical form of photography. By 1851, he was among the most successful camera artists in the United States, and claimed top honors for his daguerreotypes at the Crystal Palace exhibition in London.
When a new photographic medium—the ambrotype—began to eclipse the daguerreotype in the mid-1850s, Brady adapted, creating some of the most beautiful ambrotype portraits ever produced. As the decade drew to a close, Brady’s studio remained in the vanguard of photographic innovation, producing handsome, salted-paper print portraits from glass negatives.
This Daguerreian Gallery exhibition will trace the trajectory of Brady’s early career through portrait daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and salted-paper prints in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection. Contemporary engravings, as well as several advertising broadsides Brady used to market his portrait enterprise, will also be included.
Within These Walls
Within These Walls
One house, five families, 200 years of history .
One house, five families, 200 years of history .
16 ELM STREET - IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS
16 ELM STREET - IPSWICH, MASSACHUSETTS
This exhibition tells the history of the re-created, 2 1/2-story, Georgian-style house that stood at 16 Elm Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts, and five of the many families who occupied it from the mid-1760s through 1945. The exhibition explores some of the important ways ordinary people, in their daily lives, have been part of the great changes and events in American history. Walking around the exterior of the house, visitors can view—through open walls, windows, and doorways —settings played out against the backdrop of Colonial America, the American Revolution, the abolitionist movement, the industrial era, and World War II. Near the exit is a list of all the families who lived in the house through the 1960s.
Hard to Define: Artists’ Books from the Collection
Hard to Define: Artists’ Books from the Collection
“What are artists’ books?” is a common question and can be hard to answer. Some look like books, but others don’t. Some are made from paper; others aren’t. Some have words; others don’t. But all artists’ books combine form and content in a way that conveys information. On view are selected artists’ books that are, by turns, magical, strange, awe-inspiring, confusing, or humorous.
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