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Academic Collaborations
Class Visits
Group visits may include guided exhibition tours (with a staff member), self-guided exhibition tours, and tours of works in our on-site storage vault. The Rose staff will often work with faculty to discuss the logistics of unconventional activities within the museum that relate to course assignments while protecting the works of art (examples include using objects and materials other than pencil and sketch/notebook, kinesthetic response or unusual movement, performance, sound/music, etc.).
Collection Study and Research (Vault Tours)
Faculty who have classes and/or research which relates to specific aspects of the collection may request vault tours facilitated by the registrar and student interns.
For those who were not familiar with the collection, a meeting can be set up to see what is readily on view, or Rose staff and interns will research the collections database and develop a list of works with the faculty member based on artist, movement, medium, date, or other criteria.
Internships:
The Rose Art Museum sponsors several internship positions through the Fine Arts Department. For more information, please see here.
Courses Taught for Academic Credit at the Rose Art Museum:
Looking with the Learner: An undergraduate education course taught at the Rose by teaching artist and lecturer Ms. Robin Dash, usually offered every year. Inquiry and exploration in the visual arts have the capacity to develop the creative problem solving essential to both teaching and learning. Students worked in different media, examined interpretations of art, reflected in journals, and taught students from the nearby Stanley Elementary School about contemporary art at the Rose Art Museum during a weekly practicum.
Making Art: A practice-based investigation of what studying and creating art can afford children, intellectually, imaginatively and socially, conducted in conjunction with the “central seminar” of the graduate MAT program at Brandeis University during the summer term at the Rose Art Museum.Symposia
The Rose Art Museum takes every opportunity to collaborate with faculty from several disciplines to engage the intellectual and theoretical aspects of current exhibitions.
Some recent symposia included:
Pedagogy of the Imagination: An annual interdisciplinary symposium that “provides a forum to discuss the abstract elements of life: how our imagination works, why it is so difficult to understand, what creates wonder and how the abstract can be used to create in an educational setting”. The symposium was co-sponsored by the Cultural Productions MA program as well as other departments such as Master of Arts in Teaching/Education Program, the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education, and the Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences. For more details see here, or for an article describing the event in the Brandeis University student newspaper, The Justice, see here.
Art, the Law, and Public Trust: Legal Perspectives on Museums in Hard Times: April 29, 2009
Education Matters in the Museum: April 6th, 2009
Preserving Trust: Art and the Art Museum amidst Financial Crisis: March 16, 2009
Darwin’s Doubles: Evolution, Art, and the Politics of Representation: February 12, 2009
The Artist and The Architect: Hofmann and Sert: February 9, 2009
Duchamp and the Legacy of Surrealist Exhibition Design: November 18, 2008
Art and Public Action: Terry Berkowitz: November 13, 2008
The "Art" of the Campaign Ad: Visualizing Race, Gender and Difference in the 2008 Presidential Campaign: October 28, 2008
For a more complete list and detailed descriptions of past symposia, please see the Cultural Production Program wikispace at http://culturalproduction.wikispaces.com/.
MusicUnitesUS:
The mission of MusicUnitesUS is to further the understanding and appreciation of diverse cultures through music. The Rose Art Museum frequently hosts pre-concert lectures and children’s tour groups as part of the MusicUnitesUS’s World Music Series and Public School Education Program, respectively. For more information, please see http://www.musicunitesus.info/.
Art Break
Three times a year the Rose Art Museum invited Brandeis faculty and staff to take an Art Break. Art Break included exclusive tours of the exhibitions with Rose staff followed by complimentary lunch in the galleries.