by Peter Dickison | Mar 22, 2018 | News
The MuSE Class of 2018 at Newport Art Museum have completed their program and individual and group final projects are on display at the museum. Students with their pieces: Regan Thayer, Kim Pike, Hollie Sullivan, Nijah Johnson, Allyson Armin, Bella Pine, Ella...
by Peter Dickison | Dec 4, 2017 | Site Visits
Week 7 RISD Project Open Door hosted a Landscape Design Workshop for the MuSE cohort at the POD studio. Architecture faculty Rachelle Crosby gave the group a crash course in landscape design, covering diverse topics and breaking out some hands on focus groups to...
by Peter Dickison | Nov 15, 2017 | News, Site Visits
As the cohort continues their group assignment to reimagine how the Newport Art Museum’s public spaces work as a unified Arts Campus – the MuSE quest lead the students to two different locations. L&A Landscape Architecture hosted the group in their...
by Nijah Johnson | Oct 24, 2017 | by students
by Nijah Johnson, MuSE Class of 2018 Having a talk and walk with Nora [Diedrich] really made me realize the things that matter in a public space, such as the ramps and paths to help people with a wheelchair or other disability, and to ask questions like how can we...
by Kim Pike | Oct 24, 2017 | by students
by Kim Pike, MuSE Class of 2018 The museum needs some ways of making people want to not only come onto the property, but also to come into the buildings and see the actual exhibits. One way that I think this could be accomplished is that on the empty sides of the...
by Ella Menoche | Oct 23, 2017 | by students
by Ella Menoche, MuSE Class of 2018 Design is broken down into six fundamental principles: balance, proximity, alignment, repetition, contrast, and space. These principles should all play into the planning of the new campus, because one, without the other, causes a...
by Peter Dickison | Oct 23, 2017 | News
This time last year,Newport Art Museum had a brand new curator. This week, Dr. Francine Weiss, Senior Curator, told the MuSE class of 2018 student cohort her story of what it was like to start the job fresh, while viewing her first big curatorial statement: the...
by Peter Dickison | Oct 16, 2017 | News
The MuSE Cohort of 2017-2018 walked the museum grounds this week with Executive Director Norah Diedrich, looking first hand at the campus as the students begin work on their museum campus plan. Their project is grounded in the museum wide strategic initiative to...
by | Mar 21, 2017 | 2016, archive
On March 16, the New York Times published a special Museums section, including an article about how museums react to current and historical events and how they have reacted to President Trump’s inauguration. This article is a great look into the opinions...
by Kim Pike | Feb 24, 2017 | 2016, archive
This year the Newport Art Museum celebrates the amazing, talented artists of the region with the 30th Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition. Open to all museum members for submission, the museum brings in a guest juror selected from another arts institution in...
