Collaborative agreement signed with Smithsonian Institution and George Mason University
Published: 6 January 2012
The School of Culture & Creative Arts has announced the signing of a collaborative agreement with the Smithsonian Institution, and George Mason University
The School of Culture & Creative Arts at the University has announced the signing of a collaborative agreement with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, and George Mason University. The agreement will promote staff and student exchanges, placement opportunities and research collaboration.
The new collaboration will be formally launched in a summer school to be held in Glasgow in July 2012. It will be open to students on the Smithsonian-Mason MA in the History of the Decorative Arts and to those students interested in decorative art and architecture world-wide.
The University of Glasgow’s association with the Smithsonian-Mason Program will foster mutual summer study abroad opportunities, semester or year abroad and staff exchanges, and museum internship placements, both in Glasgow and Washington.
From the Glasgow student and staff perspective, the collaboration will allow an unprecedented opportunity to access to the vast collections of the Smithsonian museums, including the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art.
It has also been confirmed that Professor Nick Pearce, Head of the School of Culture & Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow, will become the first Exchange Professor at the Smithsonian Institute in March 2012 as part of the MA Program.
Professor Pearce said, “This is fantastic news for the University of Glasgow and indeed for Scotland. Next summer we will welcome our colleagues and partners from the Smithsonian-Mason MA Program to a series of lectures and visits that will showcase some of the great art and architecture of Scotland. Three incredible programmes will be available: Treasure Houses of Scotland, Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, and From Gothic to Gothic Revival, featuring lectures from leading specialists and access to some of the greatest buildings and works of art available anywhere in the world.”
First published: 6 January 2012
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