b'academic engagement with the collectionFACULTY AND STUDENT CONNECTIONSTHIS YEAR, MORE THAN 180 GUIDED AND SELF-THE 154: Reading guided visits by college classes across disciplines tookDress: Archival Studies place at SCMA, with a total participation of nearly of Clothing3,500 students. Faculty and museum staff collaboratedMuseums Concentration to create compelling experiences that engagedadvisory committee member students in careful looking, critical thinking and visualand Professor Kiki Smith literacy, and in many instances, in aspects of learningcollaborated with museum theory and museum practice. A few examples: staff to revise this existing course to integrate elements of museum practice. As SWG 290: Gender,an introduction to a methodology for the study of dress Sexuality and Popularas material culture, the students used garments from Culture Smith Colleges Historic Clothing Collection to explore In this course taughtthe theme of cottonits material and histories as the by Assistant Professorstuff of conflict and cont oversies globally for thousands 38 Jennifer DeClue, studentsof years. Initial exercises in close-looking of art in the considered the mannermuseum related to close looking activities focusing on in which norms of genderhistoric clothing. Introduction to exhibition practice, and sexuality are reflected,einforced and challengedespecially interpretive writing, set students on a journey in popular culture. They studied theories of knowledgeof translating their enormous amount of documentation production, representation and meaning making toand scholarship into accessible texts for their audiences. support their analysis of the relationship betweenTheir projects culminated in a pop-up exhibition in the discourse and power. Walter Benjamins text The WorkMendenhall Center for Performing Arts with garments of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,and texts presented to the public. required reading for the students, served as the starting point for a museum visit to explore the relationshipENG 273: Bloomsbury between art and popular culture by examining 19th-and Sexualityand early 20th-century paintings and photography asProfessor Cornelia well as the work of Warhol, de Kooning, Winogrand andPearsall, co-teaching Lorraine OGrady. A dialogue critiquing the institution ofwith Hampshire College museums ensued. The session ended with a screeningprofessor Lise Shapiro and discussion of She Gone Rogue by Zackary DruckerSanders, focused on the and Rhys Ernst.non-normative (what many now call queer) lives of the members of the Bloomsbury movement and the far-reaching consequences of the ostensible removal of discursive, social and sexual inhi-academic engagement with the collection'