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Collection Spotlight: Hiratsuka Un’ichi, Stone Bridge, Katsuya, Kyoto, 1966

Artist: Hiratsuka Un’ichi 平塚運一 (Japanese, 1895–1997) Title: Stone Bridge, Katsura, Kyoto Date: 1966 Medium: Woodblock print on paper…...

Collection Spotlight: Hiratsuka Un’ichi, Stone Bridge, Katsuya, Kyoto, 1966 Artist: Hiratsuka Un’ichi 平塚運一 (Japanese, 1895–1997) Title: Stone Bridge, Katsura, Kyoto Date: 1966 Medium: Woodblock print on paper Dimensions: 33 ½ x 25 in. Credit Line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Van Zelst, 1985.109 As i...

Teresa Montoya delivers annual Feinberg School of Medicine Carlos Montezuma Lecture on Native Health

On May 14, the Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine hosted artist and anthropologist Teresa Montoya (Diné, born 1984) for its 5th Annual Carlos Montezuma Native Health Lecture, co-sponsored by The Block and the…...

Teresa Montoya delivers annual Feinberg School of Medicine Carlos Montezuma Lecture on Native Health On May 14, the Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine hosted artist and anthropologist Teresa Montoya (Diné, born 1984) for its 5th Annual Carlos Montezuma Native Health Lecture, co-sponsored by The Block and the Center for Native ...

“What Can You See? What Can’t You See?”: Medill Students Test Emerging 3D Technology at The Block

This spring, Associate Professor Carolyn Tang Kmet brought her Medill Integrated Marketing Communications graduate students to the Block Museum for an experiential learning module exploring how consumers engage with physical, digital, and spatial representations of the same object. The project, led by Kmet and developed in partnership with Sony XYN and Northwestern Emerging Technologies Lab, gave students early access to a Sony prototype rarely seen outside professional design and visualization settings: the Spatial Reality Display, a screen that produces realistic 3D images without glasses or a headset....

"What Can You See? What Can't You See?": Medill Students Test Emerging 3D Technology at The Block This spring, Associate Professor Carolyn Tang Kmet brought her Medill Integrated Marketing Communications graduate students to the Block Museum for an experiential learning module exploring how consumers engage with physical, digital, and spatial representations of the same object. The project, led....

Diné in Focus Photography Collective: Artist Talk [Video]

On April 11, 2026, The Block Museum of Art hosted the Diné in Focus Photography Collective for a conversation on photography, representation, ethics, and contemporary life across the Navajo Nation. The event was held alongside Teresa Montoya's exhibition Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after the Gold King Mine Spill and featured Teresa Montoya (Diné), Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago; …...

Diné in Focus Photography Collective: Artist Talk [Video] On April 11, 2026, The Block Museum of Art hosted the Diné in Focus Photography Collective for a conversation on photography, representation, ethics, and contemporary life across the Navajo Nation. The event was held alongside Teresa Montoya’s exhibition Tó Łitso (Yellow Water): Ten Years after...