Through a New Lens is the 2024-2025 annual Museum Studies exhibition created by students in the program. It invites visitors to look closer, both figuratively and literally to explore and understand new ideas and perspectives through objects within the subjects of art, science, and history. Representing these disciplines, the exhibition will feature objects such as a dinosaur skull, a Victorian wedding dress, artist books, and a patient inquest from the Athens State Hospital. The exhibition is organized into the themes of health, history, and science to unite the items in ways that may not be expected.
The Museum Studies Certificate is a transdisciplinary academic program offered by the School of Art + Design and the Chaddock + Morrow College of Fine Arts. Graduate and undergraduate students represent various disciplines across the Ohio University Athens campus and curate, design, and install an exhibition during the spring semester practicum. Students are responsible for researching, selecting, and interpreting the objects in the exhibition, designing the layout, and developing educational programming.
Course content for Museum Fundamentals I and II is taught by Kennedy Museum of Art staff. This program is made possible thanks to the generous expertise and contributions of partners in the Biomedical Sciences Department, Southeast Ohio History Center, Ohio University Libraries, Ohio Museum Complex, and Kennedy Museum of Art.
Support provided by Ohio Arts Council