AUM Fine Arts Department

08/01/2022

Wow!

If the UK Charity Commission approves the plan, it will be the largest repatriation of looted artifacts from Britain.

07/12/2022

Our own Nyaradzai Mahachi (Art History Major) is doing amazing work at the High Museum in Atlanta this summer! Nyaradzai is a Mellon Undergraduate Curatorial Fellow in the Department of African Art. Congratulations, Nyaradzai! Check out her exhibition if you are in Atlanta.

07/10/2022

Plantation tours range widely, from those that do nothing more than celebrate the slave-owners’ opulent house to those that center Black voices.

Condé Nast Traveler Offers an Ethical Guide to Visiting Plantations to help travelers find the tours that combat racism through education.

https://www.cntraveler.com/story/an-ethical-guide-to-plantation-tours

07/06/2022

📣 Opportunity Alert! 📣

The Birmingham Museum of Art is now accepting applications for their Museum Teaching Fellowship Program, a paid opportunity that offers significant professional experience in a museum setting.

This opportunity is for passionate and compassionate college and university students from all academic disciplines and levels with the motivation and drive to be the change you want to see.

More info online here: https://www.artsbma.org/opportunities/the-museum-teaching-fellowship-program-call-for-participation/

06/15/2022

Artists Careers Internships Volunteers Above: Curator of Art Margaret Lynne Ausfeld leads a gallery tlak. Overview Founded by artists and arts educators in 1930, today’s MMFA staff continues to be a mix of makers, educators, and other museum professionals—a creative collective dedicated to art, ...

04/13/2022

04/10/2022

We hope to see many AUM faculty, staff, and especially, AUM students at the last screening of the Spring 2022 Political Film Series this Tuesday at 7pm in 109 Goodwyn Hall for a film on a timely topic as antisemitism has been growing across the country and college campuses. Almost two-thirds of young adults in the U.S. do not know that 6 million Jews were slaughtered during the Holocaust. Dr. Eric Sterling who has taught and published on the Holocaust and whose mother is a Holocaust survivor will introduce this 2016 movie.

04/09/2022

AUM photography student, Grayson McDaniel, shares some great advice: become a member of the MMFA and support your local artists!

03/17/2022

Saturday, March 26, 2022 2 PM CT

02/26/2022

These films, from Oscar-winning biopics to more creative retellings, shed the clichés of what famous artists’ lives are like.