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Details January 26 - July 7, 2024 Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology May 3-June 16, 2024 Half & Half: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition Maximiliano Cervantes, Tarik Dobbs, Morisha Moodley, Jonathan Rosemond — 2024 Master of Fine Arts degree candidates — present their thesis projects and conclude their residencies in the Department of Art, Theory, and Practice at Northwestern University. Details May 3 - June 16, 2024 Half & Half: 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition March 20-July 7, 2024 A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography Drawing from The Block’s collection, this intimate exhibition weaves together personal snapshots and work by artists who have used family photography as part of their visual language Details March 20 - July 7, 2024 A Little Truth: Fact and Fiction in Family Photography One Book One Northwestern: Crying in H Mart This selection of prints and photographs from The Block’s collection is inspired by the book, highlighting common experiences of growing up, intergenerational family relationships, processes of mourning and remembering, and moving between cultures. Details One Book One Northwestern: Crying in H Mart Art & Athletics: The Reframe Project In academic year 2022–23, The Block launched a multi-year pilot program with the Northwestern Department of Athletics and Recreation to share the museum as an important campus resource and, through this, to create conditions and support for student-athletes, coaches, and staff to have meaningful encounters with works of art. Details Art & Athletics: The Reframe Project Upcoming Programs Free and Open to All The Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University is an engine that drives questioning, experimentation, and collaboration across fields of study, with visual arts at the center.... OUR MISSION AND VISION Stories From The Block The Block among national museums to receive works from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Read More The Block and Asian Languages and Cultures Department bring Asian Pop-up Cinema festival to campus Read More NU Athletics and Block Museum partner to Reframe” art and athletics Read More Meet Christiana Castillo, Manager of Public Programs Read More The Block Museum and NU Libraries partner to improve research access to Northwestern’s art collectio Read More Elizabeth Vazquez explores Laura Aguilar’s place in The Block’s collection in gallery talk Read More Permission to slow down: Interdisciplinary opening conversation considers Actions for the Earth Read More Obscuring and Revealing: Janet Dees and Bethany Collins in Conversation at Auburn Forum for... 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