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The photograph featured in Thursday’s talk is part of a virtual “Crying in H Mart” collection from the Block Museum.

Exploring family through art: Block holds talk on photo in ‘Crying in H Mart’ collection

October 17, 2023

The Block Museum held a virtual talk Thursday on Roland L. Freeman’s photograph “Combing Hair, Amoke Alayoe and Her Children, Silver Spring, Maryland, June 1978,” which explores love, family, identity...

The Block Museum’s exhibit “Rosalie Favell: Indigenous Artists Facing the Camera” is open to the public from Sept. 20 to Dec. 3.

Photographer Rosalie Favell spotlights Indigenous artists in Block Museum exhibit

October 11, 2023

Through her decade-long collection of more than 500 black-and-white portraits, Métis photographer Rosalie Favell showcases fellow Indigenous artists, detailing a diverse community of painters, dancers,...

“For One and All” is on display in the Block Museum’s Alsdorf Gallery from Sept. 20 to Dec 3.

Block Museum showcases prints specialty in ‘For One and All’ exhibit

September 27, 2023

In the Block Museum of Art’s Alsdorf Gallery, prints ranging from engravings and woodcuts to lithographs and screenprints line the walls. Visitors delve into printmaking from the Renaissance era in Europe,...

Two people examine one of three paintings on the wall of the Block Museum of Art.

Block Museum exhibition ‘Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World’ redefines modernism

October 2, 2022

Two and a half years after its originally scheduled inauguration in spring 2020, “Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s” has arrived at the Block Museum of Art. Students, faculty...

“I got in 1 little graffiti arrest & my mom got scared...but my dad lost it when me & the homey didnt take community service seriously” by Pat Phillips. Each week, a different member of Block selects one artwork from the museum’s collection and guides a discussion on how the artists use different media to communicate themes related to “Just Mercy.”

Through “Mercy in the Museum” discussion series, Block Museum explores intersections of social justice in art

November 5, 2020

The Block Museum of Art is offering a virtual discussions series based on One Book One Northwestern selection “Just Mercy,” exploring themes of justice, racism, inequality, gender and mass incarceration....

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