Associate Professor Allison Grant (photography) and students in the studio art graduate seminar (ART 511) took a field trip to the Birmingham Museum of Art earlier this fall. They were given a tour of the BMA’s American galleries by Katelyn Crawford, the William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, who discussed the museum’s collecting practices and its approach to selecting which works are on display. The trip was part of the graduate seminar’s critical exploration of contemporary issues, philosophies, criteria and ideas in art.
Curator Katelyn Crawford discusses the BMA’s Albert Bierstadt 1865 painting, “Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California” with UA grad students. Photo courtesy Allison Grant.
UA grad students view and discuss John George Brown’s 1890 painting “Three For Five.” Photo courtesy Allison Grant.
UA graduate students discussing 19th-century paintings in the American galleries of the Birmingham Museum of Art. Photo courtesy Allison Grant.
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