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Andrea Dezsö | Foraged Color
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/exhibition_2025andreadezso_foragedcolor/1008/thumbnail.jp
Andrea Dezsö | Foraged Color
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Andrea Dezsö | Foraged Color
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Andrea Dezsö | Foraged Color
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Andrea Dezsö | Foraged Color
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Andrea Dezsö | Foraged Color
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Looking at Labels, Examining Values: Knowledge, Narrative, and Multilingualism in American Art Museums
No full textObject labels are key components of the knowledge production networks in American museums. But despite their sustained use in the Western museum field since the late nineteenth century, museum labels are not frequently regarded as valuable sources in scholarship on museum history and practices. In this thesis, I reposition labels in art museums as objects of value that should be studied for their important role in producing and disseminating knowledge. What can we learn about art museums by looking closely at their labels—specifically about those institutions’ values? How do labels reveal the hierarchies of value that art museums construct between works of art, information, and people? I argue that object labels in American art museums should be regarded as valuable sources of information because they reveal what matters to the institutions that write them. By looking closely at labels, we can understand which collection objects art museums see as more valuable, which narratives they consider most important for patrons to know, and which visitors are prioritized in their values.
Taking Corinne A. Kratz’s analysis in Rhetorics of Value: Exhibition Design & Communication in Museums and Beyond as the key theoretical framework that guides this thesis, I compare labels, label writing guidelines, and my own findings from art museum visits to investigate values in individual art museums and broadly in the American museum field. Enhanced by my professional experiences working at the RISD Museum and writing a label, my analysis demonstrates that labels are sites where art museums’ values as they relate to objects, narratives, and audiences are made visible through the use of technology tags, the fluctuation of interpretive information, and the inclusion of multilingual text. This examination of labels, conducted while executive censorship of labels in American museums is underway, ultimately invites critical thinking and reflection on the ways that art museums share information with visitors and what those choices reveal about their values
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No full textEntry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists\u27 Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest12th2026/1031/thumbnail.jp
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No full textEntry for the 12th Baker & Whitehill Student Artists\u27 Book Contest. Opening reception and award ceremony Wednesday, February 25, 2026 at 6:30pm, Fleet Library, 1st Floor Main Reading Room. Juror: Gabrielle Reed.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/bookcontest12th2026/1009/thumbnail.jp
Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers\u27s Color Experiments
No full texthttps://digitalcommons.risd.edu/colorlab_exhibitions_interactingwithcolorfritzhorstman/1004/thumbnail.jp