Teaching and Learning
Every exhibition is carefully planned in advance with attention to current curriculum and produced with academic department sponsorship and involvement. Exhibitions are designed and developed with attention to complementary programming and events that can enlarge the audience and add greater dimensions to meaningful themes and important subject matter. Additionally, the Gallery has established a permanent “teaching and learning” collection of several works co-created with artists and visual media art faculty, as well as, representative works by artists who have exhibited on campus.
Teaching and Learning Collection
The Gallery’s Teaching and Learning Collection acquires art, artifacts and other material to be used as springboards for discussion, assignments, reflections and inspiration for the College Community. Much of this material will be displayed online for immediate and widespread access; other items will be displayed on a rotating basis in the College’s Library and Learning Commons and other public areas on campus.
The Teaching and Learning Collection includes:
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Naga Dragon, ceramics, by Yary Livan
Boston Nest, multimedia, by Woomin Kim
BHCC Community Quilt Project by Susan Thompson
The BHCC Crafting Community Quilt exhibit, a collective art project, includes handmade textile and fiber art that represents and embraces our interconnections through personal histories, a sense of belonging, and other shared cultural experiences. This project was developed under the direction of Professor Emmanuela Maurice and students from the LSC course, “Telling Our Stories," which involves self-exploration through writing, storytelling and traditional fiber handcrafts, including crochet.
Renowned textile artist and fine art quilt maker, Susan Thompson, shared her art making process and expertise with these students throughout the spring 2019 semester. During this time, a collection of Thompson’s deeply human and richly textured fiber art quilts entitled Call of the Ancestors was exhibited in the Library and Learning Commons on the main campus in celebration of Black History Month and Women’s History Month.
Ms. Thompson and Professor Maurice facilitated a series of textile art and quilt making workshops that brought faculty, staff, students and members of the community together. The pieces from those workshops were assembled by Thompson into these five quilts.
A History of Immigration to Boston, charcoal on canvas