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The latest Open Classroom project by Purchase M+ graduate students debuts this week at the Neuberger Museum of Art.
Concentrated Power is organized by Rebecca E. M. Ribeiro, Veronica Murphy, Meg Byron, and Shunyo Aizawa Morgan — the curatorial cohort of Purchase College’s Art History Exhibition course (2020-2021).
An Interview with Curator Patrice Giasson
After a year behind closed doors due to the pandemic and renovations, the Neuberger is ready to begin a phased reopening next week. Works from the permanent collection and some recent acquisitions will be on view for the classes who schedule the first visits.
For the next two NEU Student Voices blog posts, art history master’s student and Neuberger Museum Archival Research Fellow Rem Ribeiro joins me in examining objects in Roy R. Neuberger’s permanent collection.
Most but certainly not all of the artists whose work Mr. Neuberger collected were Caucasian males. For our project we chose works by two trailblazing female artists. We started by looking at pieces by Irene Rice Pereira, an abstract painter and philosopher who played a major role in developing Modernism in America.
In the second installment of our Alumni Spotlight series, I’d like to introduce you to Purchase College alumna Margaret Winslow ’08. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of Mary Washington and an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory, and Criticism, from SUNY Purchase College.
As a curatorial fellow at the Neuberger Museum, Winslow curated Collaborative Compositions: A portfolio for Merce Cunningham. Today, she is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Delaware Art Museum.
It’s safe to say that most Purchase College students—including this year’s new Freshmen—have heard of the “NEU” but many of you may not be as familiar with its origin and namesake, Roy R. Neuberger. I did some research and wanted to share with you some of what I found out about the Museum’s founding donor.
By Gabrielle Bohrman, NEU Student Voices Blogger (Fall 2022)
Did you know the Neuberger Museum was the first building to open on Purchase College’s campus? Philanthropist and art-collector Roy R. Neuberger played an integral role in the birth of Purchase College and the establishment of the Neuberger Museum of Art in 1969.
By Gabrielle Bohrman, NEU Student Voices Blogger (Fall 2022)
In this new Alumni Spotlight series, I am excited to introduce you to Purchase College alumni who worked at the Neuberger Museum of Art while they were students and to talk with them about where they are today.
My first interview is with Annabel Rhodeen Spring who earned her Masters in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Criticism, and Theory from Purchase College in 2012.
When the pandemic began in mid-March, the Neuberger Museum launched its NEU To Do campaign, a weekly e-mail linked to arts suggestions and virtual activities. As students, you’ve received many of these e-updates and, hopefully, have taken advantage of these resources while we’ve all been forced to stay inside.
Now that some New York arts institutions have reopened their doors to the public, with COVID-19 protocols of course, I wanted to share a few of this month’s local exhibitions and events that I found interesting as a Purchase College student.
Last Wednesday the community collaboration project ConnectiveCollective launched with a Virtual Town Hall for Purchase College students to talk about the issues that are on their minds right now. Four students with varied backgrounds facilitated the event. I caught up with two of the moderators to ask about their involvement with the project, their experiences, and what comes next.
“Student participation is important to us not only because we want to reach everyone where they are but also because of the energy, optimism and big picture thinking students bring to our work.”
Eric Gottesman
Co-Founder, For Freedoms
Assistant Professor of Art+Design, Purchase College