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A Key to the Past: The Original Piano from the Madame Walker Theatre

This piano is so important in the city of Indianapolis, and this is one of my favorite blog posts by one of my students from our class last semester.

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The Story Behind the Madame Walker Stamp

Here’s a great post about the Madame Walker stamp, which uses the famous 1914 Addison Scurlock photo.  

Will Watson Mural Forms a Bridge to the Past

Check out the second post from my student’s work at the Madame Walker Theatre Center. Lots more great stories to come.

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Finding the Importance of Indiana Avenue

Check out the first post from my student’s work at the Madame Walker Theatre Center. Lots more great stories to come.

The Madame Walker Theatre Center Partners with my IUPUI Museum Studies Class!

Here’s a link to a post on the MWTC’s blog about this great project.  I’m really looking forward to seeing how this class develops and produces great information about and around this collection.

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Caring for the IMA Loans at IUPUI

Here’s a blog post on the IMA’s Blog by Abbott Nixon, a summer intern working for me in the Objects & Variable Art Lab. 

Punctuations Spire.

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Welcome Mat a Blog Post by IUPUI Prof. Modupe Labode.

She provides a thoughtful discussion on one of Thornton Dial’s works, Everyone’s Welcome in Peckerwood City.

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Today at the Indiana State House I was honored to receive a Concurrent Resolution from both the House of Representatives and Senate of the State of Indiana on behalf of my IUPUI student’s and their excellent work documenting the public art at the Indiana Statehouse.  These two photos are by IMA Chief Photographer Tad Fruits.  The sculpture we’re standing in front of is “Indiana.”

You can read my summary of the project’s result here and see how we did it in Wikipedia here.  

Next week one of the students will tell you about our big day at the State House over on the IMA’s Blog.

Check out this Google map showing the List of Public Art IUPUI.  Last time here I showed the Google Map and Earth screen shots of the artworks on the grounds of the Indiana Statehouse.

What does it all mean?  I’m not sure yet, but clearly there’s all sorts of geeky mapping potential with Wikipedia data.   

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Check out the Main Page of Wikipedia right now to see a link to one of my student's Wikipedia articles about the Christopher Columbus sculpture at the Indiana Statehouse!

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This week some students from my IUPUI Collections Care & Management and I went down to the Indiana Statehouse to exam and document their artworks as part of one of their class projects.  With the help of Jennifer Hodge, Statehouse Tour Office Coordinator, we were able to meet a lot of interesting Senators and Representatives.  Many enthusiastically support our project, including Representative Tom Saunders (House District 54).  Pictured with him from left to right (me, Stephanie Herrick, class teaching assistant Lori Phillips, Rep. Tom Saunders, Amanda Charles, Chelsea Libby, and Amy Patterson). We were happy to get the project noticed by the IU School of Liberal Arts News and the Herron Online Newsletter.  Now the fun part, and real work begins as the students research and learn all they can about their artworks before putting their information into Wikipedia, and uploading their images to Flickr. 

This week some students from my IUPUI Collections Care & Management and I went down to the Indiana Statehouse to exam and document their artworks as part of one of their class projects.  With the help of Jennifer Hodge, Statehouse Tour Office Coordinator, we were able to meet a lot of interesting Senators and Representatives. 

Many enthusiastically support our project, including Representative Tom Saunders (House District 54).  Pictured with him from left to right (me, Stephanie Herrick, class teaching assistant Lori Phillips, Rep. Tom Saunders, Amanda Charles, Chelsea Libby, and Amy Patterson).

We were happy to get the project noticed by the IU School of Liberal Arts News and the Herron Online Newsletter. 

Now the fun part, and real work begins as the students research and learn all they can about their artworks before putting their information into Wikipedia, and uploading their images to Flickr. 

Help Us Get the Word Out! Tomorrow afternoon, students from my IUPUI Museum Studies Collections Care & Management Course will be joining our State elected officials when they assemble for Organizational Day at the Indiana State House and we kick off our final class project. Our hope is to get significant media coverage; please share this press release. The Indiana State House Project aims to care for the over 40 historically important artworks inside and around the Indiana State House through the acts of examination, documentation, and research.  The results of this work will be published in Wikipedia and Flickr, two of the most visible web sites in the world.   You can find out more on the Wikipedia Project Page.  Later you’ll be able to watch the links on this Wikipedia list become active and this Flickr group become populated with hundreds of images.

Help Us Get the Word Out!

Tomorrow afternoon, students from my IUPUI Museum Studies Collections Care & Management Course will be joining our State elected officials when they assemble for Organizational Day at the Indiana State House and we kick off our final class project.

Our hope is to get significant media coverage; please share this press release.

The Indiana State House Project aims to care for the over 40 historically important artworks inside and around the Indiana State House through the acts of examination, documentation, and research.  The results of this work will be published in Wikipedia and Flickr, two of the most visible web sites in the world.  

You can find out more on the Wikipedia Project Page.  Later you’ll be able to watch the links on this Wikipedia list become active and this Flickr group become populated with hundreds of images.

This is the second year of subjecting my IUPUI Museum Studies students to my kitchen social science experiment.  Since I’m not involved with them in anyway up until they arrive in my classroom, I like to spend some time to get to know their background and interests.  

So, here is the data produced in a kind of digital, back-of-the-envelope kind of calculation.  

Like last year, I assumed that the Indianapolis Museum of Art would be a top job destination for the students.  Wrong again.  They are asked to list their top three job locations and top three job desired.  

While the majority of the students are from Indiana, they have attended school all around the state.