Category: Main Exhibitions

Gallery 106 Main Exhibition

Children as Consumers Exhibit Curators: Akiva Weinstein, Kate-Lynn Rice, Gabrielle Bohner, Rahel Knight, & Yassah Fello In this week’s reading material, The Material Child we discuss the power and impact of consumer culture. ‘Children’s parents as the true consumers’ explores the pressure parents feel when buying products and the different marketing tactics that influence parents…Continue Reading Gallery 106 Main Exhibition

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Play and Toys as Expressions of Identity Curators–Marylynne Buford, Diane Harris, Beth Otto, Kristi Stokes Identity: The quality or condition of being the same in substance, composition, nature, properties, or in particular qualities under consideration; absolute or essential sameness; oneness. (Oxford English dictionary) How do play and toys influence a child’s identity? Do children express…Continue Reading Gallery 202 Main Exhibition

Gallery 201 Main Exhibition

Sexuality Curated by: Melissa Ann Kyc, Megan Werner, Kelcey Paige Sokol, and Karen Friel The transition from child to teen to young adult is a period of a lot of change and growth. That growth happens physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Being in a transformative phase, adolescents begin to explore who they are as a person,…Continue Reading Gallery 201 Main Exhibition

Gallery 105 Main Exhibition

History of American Childhoods – Part 2  Curated by: Antonina, Cara, Deanna, and Lilyanna In the second half of Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood (2004), Mintz details how childhood has changed from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The versions of childhood Mintz explores become increasingly recognizable to us as…Continue Reading Gallery 105 Main Exhibition

Gallery 104 Main Exhibition

History of American Childhoods, Part 1 Curated by: Carrie, Lizzie, Jack, Khadyajah, and Julia “A Puritan childhood is as alien to twenty-first century Americans as an Indian childhood was to seventeenth-century New Englanders”- S. Mintz, Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood Mintz, S. (2004). Huck’s Raft: A History of American Childhood. Chapters 1 –…Continue Reading Gallery 104 Main Exhibition