ABSTRACT
Ideas, a student-driven exhibition of conceptual art at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (NEHMA) in Logan, UT, was the product of an experimental art history course that considered the art museum as a place for hands-on learning. The instructors, an art historian and a curator, devised the course to connect with recent exhibitions sponsored by the Getty Research Institute’s Pacific Standard Time Initiative in Los Angeles, CA that directly related to NEHMA’s permanent collection. Both the course pedagogy and the culminating exhibition modeled forms of social practice that engaged students and audiences as active participants in the museum. This chapter explores the benefits that a collaborative course with a public outcome can have on student learning, inter-institutional relationships, and community investment in the visual arts, particularly in regions outside art world centers.
