Berman Student Workers: Where Are They Now?
Our ongoing series Berman Student Workers: Where Are They Now? highlights alumni from the Berman’s founding to its present. After graduation, our student workers accomplish amazing things and we look forward to watching their professional careers grow. We hope you enjoy learning from them as much as we do!
Branching Out With the Berman Podcast
Branching Out With the Berman is hosted by Ursinus College history and educational studies double major Katie Sanfield ’23. Using the interdisciplinary nature of Ursinus College’s curriculum, Sanfield explores the Berman Museum’s multi-media installation Strata by Shannon Collis.
Museum Work Demystified Series Videos
Museum Work Demystified is a series of ongoing interviews with Berman Museum staff about the exciting and challenging work that they do. What goes on behind the scenes at museums is often unknown to the public, with this series we hope to pull back the curtain.
Katie Merz: Live the Questions Mural documentation series
Watch as Brooklyn artist Katie Merz turns the smokestack at Ursinus College into a mural commemorating the class of 2020 and the Ursinus community.
Under Color of Law Exhibition re-presented for 2020
The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art condemns the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others, resulting from acts of racist violence. We stand united against police brutality and racial injustice. We remain steadfast in our commitment to create spaces of dialogue, equity, and inclusion through our programming and exhibitions.
Here, we re-present images from our exhibition Under Color of Law (2015), curated by Ginny Kollak, that contextualized and responded to civil unrest following the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Under Color of Law featured work by five acclaimed, Black artists—Terry Adkins, Nsenga Knight, Hank Willis Thomas, Nari Ward, and Carrie Mae Weems—who explore themes of race, privilege, speech, and historical memory. The exhibition was tragically timely then and remains grievously urgent now. We reprise this exhibition, along with expanded content, to bear witness. Black Lives Matter. To be silent is to be complicit.