Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art Matters by Adam Welch

    Art Matters by Adam Welch

    The mission of the Arts Council is Building Community through the Arts. As a nonprofit arts organization supporting artists and promoting art within our gallery and through public art, we play a vital role in providing access to the arts,...
  • Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections
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    Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections

    Each year the Museum’s Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence program welcomes an artist to campus for class visits and public presentations. Created in 2010 through an endowment established by Sarah Lee Elson—a collector, writer, and art adviser...
  • Exploration and Innovation: New Digital Tools Increase Engagement

    Exploration and Innovation: New Digital Tools Increase Engagement

    In 2017 the Princeton University Art Museum launched an Application Programming Interface (API) with the goal of making the Museum’s collections of more than 113,000 works of art readily available for students, instructors, curators, and developers around the world.
  • Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

    Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

    The effort that the faculty and Art Museum staff made to ensure that we would be able to experience art the way it was intended to be experienced, to be fully immersed within the work, has forever changed my perspective...
  • Centering Object-Based Learning

    Centering Object-Based Learning

    During the period when the main building is offline, university-level teaching with works of art continues thanks to the use of off-site and on-campus classrooms, the superb campus collections, and the exhibition venues at Art@Bainbridge and Art on Hulfish.
  • Campus Collections Outdoor Walking Tours

    Campus Collections Outdoor Walking Tours

    Join a free guided walking tour of the campus collections with a Museum tour and discover a variety of artworks by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Henry Moore to Maya Lin.
  • Art Matters by Yifu Liu, PhD student, Department of Art & Archaeology

    Art Matters by Yifu Liu, PhD student, Department of Art & Archaeology

    How does art survive in a pandemic? How does art help us survive as we deal with the painful realities of racial injustice and political turmoil? These are two of the questions I was considering as I began my McCrindle...
  • Museum Pilots New Schools Program

    Museum Pilots New Schools Program

    The education staff worked to create inquiry-based teaching modules targeted to elementary, middle, and high school students while the Museum is closed during construction.
  • Graduate Voices for the New Museum

    Graduate Voices for the New Museum

    This past academic year Princeton students have orchestrated dialogues about the necessity of equity, collaboration, and transparency across campus and around the world. These conversations have shown that inclusive discourse, when combined with structural transformation, can result in meaningful institutional...
  • Art Matters by Ben Stout, Atelier Art Service

    Art Matters by Ben Stout, Atelier Art Service

    For the past nine months, I have been part of a team of art handlers and registrars occupied with the task of temporarily relocating nearly all of the artworks in the Princeton University Art Museum. . . . In the...