Student Exhibits- Summer 2020
Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Collective
Ways of Seeing: Art History, Curating and Museums
Course Description: Ways of Seeing: Art History, Curating and Museums is an immersive four-week course which introduces rising junior and senior high school students of color to the discipline of art history and the practice of art appreciation. Through a survey of significant artworks in African American art and visual culture alongside a focus on art in the Western tradition students learn how curators and other professionals interpret art and other objects entrusted to their care.
Assignment Description: Students were asked to curate a digital exhibition on the AUC GLAM Omeka portal, incorporating artwork from the High Museum of Art Civil Rights Photography Collection as well as archival material from AUC Archives Research Center.
Time and Time Again: Is History Repeating
Itself Through Photography?
Humanity Behind The Movement
The Past Is Not Over: Exploring Pain, Progress, and
Humanity During the Civil Rights Movement
The Erasure of Black Women
in the Civil Rights Movement
