Twenty Years of Campus Collaborations - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Since it opened in 2005, the Nasher Museum of Art has been a central space for art at Duke University and in the Durham community. Connected closely with Duke’s students, faculty, and researchers, the museum has served as a place for creative exploration, learning, and conversation. For the past twenty years, the idea of the museum as a classroom has been at the heart of the Nasher’s work. This exhibition highlights the many ways students and faculty have collaborated with the museum—from curating exhibitions to contributing their own research and artwork.

Twenty Years of Campus Collaborations showcases the rich and varied partnerships that have shaped the museum from 2005 to 2025. It celebrates student involvement, faculty scholarship, and the exciting possibilities for future collaboration. The exhibition was curated by Hailey Kasney (T’26), a Carmichael Intern and student in the Museum Theory & Practice concentration, together with Julia McHugh, Trent A. Carmichael Director of Academic Initiatives and Curator of Arts of the Americas.

Bill Fick, Untitled, 2020. Screenprint on paper, 8 11/16 × 5 1/8 inches (22.07 × 13.02 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham,NC. Gift of Bill Fick, 2021.5.3. © Bill Fick. Photo by Peter Paul Goeffreon.
The Gela Painter or near him, Athenian, Lekythos, c. 530–510 BCE. Ceramic, 8 3/4 x 2 1/8 x 2 1/5 inches (22.23 x 5.4 x 6.35 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. Gift of Barbara Newborg, M.D., from the collection of Walter Kempner, M.D., 2006.1.10. Photo by Peter Paul Goeffreon.
Nayarit, Kneeling Figure, 200 BCE–400 CE. Ceramic, polychrome, 10 1/4 x 5 5/16 x 7 5/16 inches (26 x 13.5 x 18.5 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. The Paul A. and Virginia Clifford Collection, 1973.1.42. Photo by Brian Quinby
Chimú, Stirrup vessel with crab, 900–1200 CE. Ceramic and blackware, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (19.1 x 14 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham , NC. Gift of Bernice M. Bremer, 1985.25.1. Photo by Brian Quinby.
Duke faculty and students in the galleries at the Nasher Museum of Art.
Duke faculty and students in the galleries at the Nasher Museum of Art.
Duke faculty and students in the galleries at the Nasher Museum of Art.
Duke faculty and students in the galleries at the Nasher Museum of Art.