Education Gallery
Faculty can work with the academic program coordinator to design installations in the museum's Education Gallery relevant to their upcoming courses. The gallery is located on the main floor near the University Classroom. Past departments utilizing the Education Gallery include: Classical Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Romance Studies; and Eurasian Studies and Art, Art History and Visual Studies. The Education Gallery is a gift of Susan and Trent Carmichael and the Morrow Family.
Currently on view:
Life in Classical Antiquity
March 10-July 29, 2012
Students and professors in three Duke classes– Archaic Greece (Professor Carla Antonaccio), Roman History (Professor Tolly Boatwright), and Representing Women in the Classical World (Professor Sheila Dillon)– are using these works, and others in the museum’s permanent collection, as material evidence for the cultural production and history of antiquity.
These objects are drawn from the two collections of antiquities held by the Nasher Museum. The Duke Classical Collection was begun by Duke’s Department of Classical Studies in the 1960s, and transferred to the university museum in the late 1990s. Most of the collection was published in A Generation of Antiquities: The Duke Classical Collection 1964-1994 by Professor Keith Stanley. The Kempner Collection, given to the museum in 2006 by Dr. Barbara Newborg, is documented in a new catalogue, The Past is Present: The Kempner Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, published in 2011.
The variety of materials, size, function, provenance and dates of these objects illuminates the rich complexity of the ancient world. These objects allow students first-hand experience with the material remnants of the ancient cultures they study.
For more information about using the Education Gallery, contact Marianne Wardle, Ph.D., Andrew W. Mellon Coordinator of Academic Programs, at 919-684-5203 or marianne.wardle@duke.edu.
IMAGE: (top) Students work on an assignment for Erin Hanas' Writing 20 class "Letting Art Speak". Photo by Molly Boarati.
