Teaching Artworks AY23-24 in the Mandeville Gallery and Schaffer Library

September 2023 – June 2024

Chitra Ganesh, Sultana’s Dream: City in Broad Daylight, 2018, linocut on BFK Rives, ed. 4/35, 20 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches, printed and published by Durham Press, purchase of the Union College Permanent Collection, 2019.17.4 UCPC, © Chitra Ganesh and Durham Press, image courtesy of Durham Press

This academic year, the Mandeville Gallery, and locations in Schaffer Library will display artworks requested by Union College professors for use in teaching. Many of these artworks are recent additions to the College’s Permanent Collection, a term used to describe the collection of art that the College has amassed over its more than 200-year history.

In recent years, the Permanent Collection has focused on acquiring modern and contemporary works of art that can be integrated within established academic curricula to give students and faculty opportunities to engage in object-based learning and make connections across disciplines. Such artworks feature historical, cultural, scientific, artistic, and political concepts that can be used in the classroom to expound learning methodologies, theories, histories, and philosophies.

Engaging students with thought-provoking works of art serves to broaden knowledge of other cultures, increases critical thinking and historical empathy, and sparks creativity. When students observe art objects first-hand, the learning experience is amplified.

Please contact Sarah Mottalini (mottalis@union.edu) for more information about how to request artworks for instruction and independent study. Further details may be found at union.edu/gallery by clicking “About” under the “Permanent Collection” tab.