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Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

Tifinagh is an ancient script used to write Tamazight that was preserved by the Indigenous Tuareg communities. The centrality of the Tamazight language is what kept the Amazigh people resilient.
Art Matters by Rahsaan Harris, Class of 1995

Art Matters by Rahsaan Harris, Class of 1995

Art matters because it has the power to bring people together in ways that words alone cannot achieve.
Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

The painting’s frame is the “setting” that translates a two-dimensional idea into a three-dimensional world.
Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

This summer the Museum partnered with Sharyse Porter, director of the health and wellness nonprofit Dawn of Hope, and Danielle Miller-Winrow, headmaster of Sprout U School of the Arts in Trenton, to pilot an intensive two-week academy for high school...
Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

At the Museum, the preparators—Todd Baldwin, Chris Gorzelnik, Alan Lavery, and Justin Webb—are the people who move, frame, pack, mount, install, and deinstall the precious objects in the collections.
Using Art to Teach Engineering

Using Art to Teach Engineering

Penelope Georges, associate director of Princeton’s STEM Initiatives, Council on Science and Technology, and Veronica White, curator of teaching and learning, recently reflected on their work together teaching from the Museum’s collections
Art Matters by Eloise Schrier, Class of 2023

Art Matters by Eloise Schrier, Class of 2023

Understanding art engenders a greater understanding of humanity—it has certainly unlocked the world for me.
Art Matters by Alan Lo, Class of 2003

Art Matters by Alan Lo, Class of 2003

While museums continue to be spaces that inspire and provide near spiritual encounters with art, I believe they can also test limits, trigger debate, and coax you out of your comfort zone.
Princeton University Art Museum Summer Academy

Princeton University Art Museum Summer Academy

Join us for a two-week program designed to offer high school students from Trenton Central and Ewing High Schools the opportunity to learn about careers in art museums and the visual arts while working with mentors, artists, and professionals from...
Major Stone Works Undergo Cleaning, Conservation

Major Stone Works Undergo Cleaning, Conservation

In 2020 and 2021, the removal of more than one hundred large-scale and embedded works from the old building was a particularly complicated task; installing these objects again in the new building will also be a massive undertaking. Since nearly...