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The Phillips Museum of Art

Teaching and Learning

Research and Independent Study

The collections at The Phillips Museum of Art are available for study and research to the students and faculty of Franklin & Marshall College, as well as to undergraduate and graduate students from surrounding colleges. Student projects have included original cataloguing, research projects and independent study culminating in collections documentation, essays, digital and exhibition projects. 

Research projects are not limited to the collections. We invite students from all majors to build research and independent study projects around all aspects of museum operations including education, fundraising, marketing and public relations, legal and ethical concerns and non-profit management.

  • Judith Stapleton ‘ 12, Franklin & Marshall College, worked with a collection of drawings by Zdzislaw Czermanski, a gift from Mrs. Sarah Ellmaker Mcilvaine Muench.  These drawings were previously uncatalogued.   Judith has documented, researched and re-housed the collection, which may form the basis for a future exhibition program.

     

  • Flower Girl

  • Gabby Jiayin She ’11, Franklin & Marshall College, had worked with the museum’s collection of 130 ukiyo-e Japanese prints, a gift from Mrs. Lillian Van Horn.  Gabby researched the prints over the course of two semesters and a summer field trip to Japan.  She catalogued and contextualized a group of 'beauty' prints from well-known ukiyo-e masters selected from the museum’s collection. This collection served as the basis of her departmental honors research project as well as an exhibition. 

  • Defence Colony Series #5

  • Jessica Jackson ’10, Franklin & Marshall College, completed a Hackman research project cataloguing and assisting with the transfer of the Bill Hutson Collection, a major gift from the artist to the to The Phillips Museum of Art.  

  • Where Do You Draw the Line

  • Christy Batta ’09, Franklin & Marshall College, used works from the permanent collection to explore the cultural constructions that separate art and graphic design.  Her research was used for her departmental honors project and culminated in the exhibition Where Do you Draw the Line? 

  • Eleanore Lockspeiser

  • Kaitlin Dunn ’09, Franklin & Marshall College, researched Eleanore Lockspeiser paintings from the permanent collection and various private collections.  Her project culminated in the exhibition The Procession & Other Works by Eleanore Losckspeiser, exploring the life and work of Lockspeiser as a remarkable and important artist of the Abstract Expressionist era, as well as a person of incredible influence over students. Kaitlin’s research formed the basis for her departmental honor project.