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| Whether leading a highlights tour of the Museum, giving a gallery talk, welcoming visitors at the information desk, serving on the Student Advisory Board, or just enjoying Museum events, the inspiration and insight that Princeton University students provide are essential to the Museum's life. Take a look below to see what they've been up to lately, or better yet, come visit and see for yourself! |
 Introducing the Princeton Arts Collective
Will Palley, Class of 2010
Student Advisory Board President
The start of 2010 brings exciting opportunities for the Princeton Arts Collective, the Museum's new student arts group. Dedicated to promoting the arts within the University and the community, this initiative offers an exciting chance for students to get involved directly with the Museum's mission of making art essential to our lives. The Collective hopes to foster awareness of the arts and have an enduring impact on the arts here at Princeton. |
 Mesoamerican Stamps
Bridget K. Wright, Class of 2011
Student intern and designer of Mesoamerican Stamps
Now on view in the Art of the Ancient Americas galleries, this display case exhibits a number of stamps dating from the Early Preclassic period (1200-900 B.C.) to the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century. These stamps demonstrate a wide range of what may be considered an early form of printmaking and suggests their use in ritual practice, body decoration, and textile ornamentation. Noted for the beauty of their physical forms and the designs they produce, these stamps reveal the artistic process and bridge the boundaries between "artifact" and "art."
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 Student-Guided Tours at the Art Museum
Natalie Guo, Class of 2012
Student Advisory Board Vice-President for Marketing
Students in the Princeton Arts Collective love spending time at the Museum, studying not only the works of art themselves but also learning the stories behind them. Whether you're interested in a tour of Museum highlights or wish to know more about a specific collection, the Museum's Student Guides are excited to share what they've learned with you. For more information please visit our Web site. Highlights tours are offered every Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. |
 Wassily Kandinsky, Promenade (Sketch)
Sarah Gerth, Class of 2012
Member-at-Large of the Student Advisory Board
Have you ever seen daubs of paint like these -- the jeweled streaks of color making up the bands of the fields, the fluidity of the mountains, and the warm afternoon light dappling the promenade? To some, it might be easier to understand this sketch more as a "memory-scape" than a landscape. Transporting viewers back to the geography of his own past, Kandinsky depicts a memory as ephemeral and tenuous as the lady on the promenade comprised solely of fluttering daubs of paint.
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For more information about student involvement at the Art Museum, contact
by calling (609) 258-9351. |
Image credits, top to bottom:
Princeton University Art Museum
Photo: Bruce M. White
Early Preclassic, Olmec style
Tlatilco, Central Mexico
Cylinder stamp, 1200-900 B.C.
Brownware ceramic. h. 8.5 cm., diam. 5.8 cm.
Princeton University Art Museum, gift of Gillett G. Griffin (y1994-14)
Photo: Bruce M. White
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian, 1866 - 1944
Promenade (Sketch), 1903
Oil on canvas. 50.8 x 70.5 cm.
Bequest of Sophie Goldberg Bargmann and Valentine Bargmann (y1990-30)
(C) 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Bruce M. White
Reproduction of these images is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
© 2010 Princeton University Art Museum. All rights reserved.
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