Collection Info
The Block Museum of Art’s collection supports learning across disciplines through exhibitions, research, and class and co-curricular visits. One of the ways we grow this resource is through an annual student-led collecting initiative undertaken by the Block Museum Student Associates (BMSA), an interdisciplinary group of Northwestern undergraduates. The experience culminates in their recommending the purchase of one or more works of art centered around a theme. The 2023–2024 BMSA acquisition focused on humor as an artistic strategy. This installation presents the BMSA acquisition alongside other works from the museum’s collection related to the theme.
The 2023–2024 Student Associates recommended the purchase of two works by photographer Cara Romero that poke fun at the many ways Indigenous communities have been misrepresented and stereotyped in American culture: You can see Romero’s work Amber Morningstar (2022) in this installation and TV Indians (2017), also selected by the BMSAs, in the Looking 101 exhibition.
