Art Exhibition by Current MALS Student, Isadora Italia, now on display at the Hood Museum of Art

Embodied: Artist as Medium by Current MALS Student Isadora Italia, is now on display at the Hood Museum of Art.

Satisfying her Independent Study requirement in MALS, the exhibition comments on a variety of issues within cultural studies, ranging from objectification and societal expectations, to racial violence and the ethnographic gaze. The exhibition poses two central questions to its viewers: "how can the body be used as a tool and vessel for ideas?" and, "how can gender, race, artistic process, and technology converge to generate new meanings?"

Italia, who joined the museum in May 2018, is currently employed as the Hood's Campus Engagement Manager. Her experiences as a student in the Cultural Studies Concentration works in cojunction with her goal of developing strategies for increasing the museum's interaction with campus audiences.

The exhibition is organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and generously supported by the George O. Southwick 1957 Memorial Fund and the Bernard R. Siskind Fund.

For more information about Isadora, check out her bio, or, for more information about the exhibition, visit the description on the Hood's website.