The Nasher Museum is an interdisciplinary laboratory where students and scholars can increase critical visual literacy and test knowledge by applying it to visual evidence. Our academic program staff works one on one with faculty to design visits to exhibitions and collections in storage and to create lesson plans, assignments and installations that complement courses.
At the Nasher Museum, Duke students earn credit or pay through internships; lead public school groups and adult visitors through interactive, conversation-based tours; serve on the Nasher Student Advisory Board; work at the museum in visitor services, security, marketing and other positions; volunteer at Family Day events; research paintings, drawings and objects up close in the museum’s study storage areas; and assist faculty in co-organizing exhibitions.
820
Number of objects used on class visits
178
Number of Duke class visits (both research storage and galleries)
1033
Number of Duke students who visited storage
1800
Number of First-Year students who attended “Night at the Nasher” party
2298
Number of Duke faculty and students visiting storage and galleries
52
Number of Duke faculty visiting storage (not with class visits)
2546
Number of visitors (Duke and non-Duke) who arranged visits through the museum to visit study storage and galleries
25
Number of different Duke departments and schools that used the museum for a class
Student Curated Installations
Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire
September 19, 2013 – January 6, 2014
The Defining Lines curatorial team was led by Elizabeth Blackwood and includes Mary Kate Cash, Katie Contess, Sophia Durand, Rachel Fleder, Lauren Jackson, Minn Htet Khine, Leo Lou, Jordan Noyes and Jeremy Tripp. They were advised by Professor Philip Stern and graduate students Andrew Ruoss, Erica Sherman and Rosalia Romero, as part of the BorderWork(s) Humanities Lab at Duke’s Franklin Humanities Institute, supported by the Humanities Writ Large Initiative.
Masculinities: Mainstream to Margins
January 11 – June 29, 2014
This exhibition was curated by professor Ann Marie Rasmussen’s fall 2013 Rivalrous Masculinities class, including graduate students Christian Straubhaar and Steffen Kaupp and undergraduates Ryan Elizabeth Bennert, Sarah Kristin Filter, Mary Bourke Hagan, Indrani Saha and KellyNoel Waldorf.
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Duke Students Socialize at the Nasher Museum
Photos by J Caldwell