Working with Wonder

For the second year in a row, we decided to do an installation in our Education Gallery inspired by Duke’s summer reading book. Patchett’s novel State of Wonder offered a particularly challenging set of ideas to capture with art from the permanent collection. How do you exhibit teacher-student relationships, drug-induced nightmares and cutting-edge medical advances? How can an installation translate the words off a page into a coherent display that captures the mystery, anxiety, and beauty of an entire book?

09-26-12 | Comment »