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A Slow Look, A Short Poem
Today’s blog is written by Lisa Falk, Arizona State Museum’s Director of Education, and this blog’s editor. People come to museums for a variety of reasons, but chief among these are to see objects, the art and artifacts on display. But according to those who study visitors in museums, visitors spend very little time actually [...]
A Surprise in the Archives
Today’s blog is written by Arizona State Museum’s archivist Amy Rule. She can be found working alongside the rest of the Library and Archives staff in the beautiful second floor reading room at ASM providing preservation and access to the over 1500 linear feet of archival and manuscript holdings. In my job as the archivist [...]
A Comic Book and Creative Imagery To Inspire Health
Today’s blog is written by ASM’s Director of Education Lisa Falk, who was lead curator for ASM’s exhibit Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living, and is co-author of the It’s Up 2 You! comic book. Last fall we displayed the exhibit Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living about diabetes [...]
Traversing the Continent in Fulbright Style, Part I: Canada
Today’s blog is written by ASM’s Dr. Michael Brescia who is on sabbatical this year. A Fulbright-Carlos Rico Award for North American Studies, under the categories of teaching and research, has taken him to two locales in North America. This past fall at the University of Western Ontario, Brescia taught a research seminar on the [...]
Shoes Tell Stories
Virkinee Eloisa Hanessian, a senior at the University of Arizona majoring is Art History, shares her thoughts on Native American shoes that are included in the Through the Eyes of the Eagle exhibit as an illustration of physical activity. This semester she interned in ASM’s education department and helped with installation prep work for the [...]
Community collaborations enrich museum’s healthy message
Today’s blog is written by Lisa Falk, lead curator for ASM’s exhibit Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living. In light of staggering statistics on obesity and diabetes, Arizona State Museum partnered with university and community organizations to bring to Tucson an exhibit with a healthy message. If you haven’t had a chance [...]
Creating Dynamic Cultural Film Programming
For the last eight years the Hanson Film Institute has partnered with the Arizona State Museum to develop and produce the Native Eyes Film Showcase featuring the best new works by and about Native Americans and Indigenous peoples. This blog is written by Vicky Westover, director of the Hanson Film Institute, College of Fine Arts, [...]
Looking to our Past for a Healthier Future
Today’s blog is written by Lisa Falk, lead curator for ASM’s new exhibit Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living. Terrol Dew Johnson is an award-winning artist, community organizer, and a nationally recognized activist who lives with type 2 diabetes. He is also one of the co-curators of Arizona State Museum’s newest exhibit [...]
Do you know the answers?
Lisa Falk, ASM director of education and blog editor provokes you to think about the questions raised in ASM’s newest exhibit Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living for which she is the lead curator. Our newest exhibit, Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living, uses objects, stories, photos, videos, hands-on [...]
Behind the Scenes: Putting Together an Exhibit
Lisa Falk, ASM director of education and blog editor shares preparation for ASM’s newest exhibit Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living for which she is the lead curator. Do you remember preparing for those school plays? Just before opening night it seemed you were always running around making one more prop, painting [...]
