In this workshop, instructors in art history and related fields will explore meaningful strategies and techniques to engage collections of art in their pedagogy. We will be in the Arthur Ross Gallery in Fisher Fine Arts Library, looking closely at the exhibition Collecting the Irascibles: Art in the 1980s. Professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, James and Nan Wagner Farquhar Professor in the Department of History of Art and Inaugural Faculty Director of the Arthur Ross Gallery, will discuss her own teaching practice in relation to her curatorial work and experiences collaborating with artists, collectors, and archivists. Participants will reflect on how exhibitions are generative sites of learning and conversation for graduate and undergraduate students, and can inform learning objectives and writing assignments when designing and teaching a course.

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the History of Art department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.