S<\/span>onja Sugerman breaks it gently to the two students in her Practicum in Museum Studies: \u201cYou have to do math if you\u2019re going to be in art history. I\u2019m sorry, but that\u2019s the truth no one tells you.\u201d This is the second year for the Goucher Collects show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":312,"featured_media":1248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7935],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[87492],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goucher-today"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nTori Gingrich \u201917<\/strong> and Ilana Piskin \u201919<\/strong> are resolute. Laid out before them on the table, along with a calculator and smart phone, are charts and squares, paper and tape. Their challenge for today is geometrical in nature\u2014how do they fit all the paintings, sculptures, and objects for the upcoming Goucher Collects show onto the walls of the Silber Gallery.
\nThe broad strokes are there\u2014the long walls of the rectangular room will go to New York and California artists, the short walls to New England and the Pacific Northwest. Sugerman takes the art history majors through the list, adding up the dimensions of paintings, some belonging to the college, others to alumnae\/i who have agreed to loan them from their private collections.
\nThis is the second year for the Goucher Collects show, which will run from April 6 to May 19. The first two shows were made possible by a gift from Toni Perlman Young \u201967, P \u201998. This year\u2019s show, titled Schools of Thought, is the first to add a teaching component\u2014Gingrich and Piskin have helped research the works and schools of art being shown, and are working on essays for
\nthe catalog. On Alumnae\/i Weekend, they\u2019ll be giving gallery talks, but right now, they\u2019re getting a more hands-on education, stretching a tape measure across the walls and charting how much wall space to allow between paintings.
\nThe works cover a broad range of artists and schools, from the photos of Ansel Adams to blown glass sculpture by Dale Chihuly. Sugerman says donors have been eager to participate, showing works that usually have a more limited audience in private homes. She\u2019s keeping the donors a secret for now\u2014though their names will collectively adorn a wall in the gallery, they won\u2019t be linked to specific works of art.
\nThe New York wall comes up short. Or rather, the art comes up long. Sugerman has to make some tough calls. She may remove the Garry Winogrand photo belonging to the college first\u2014that can always be shown another time. Two Sol LeWitt paintings can be hung vertically to save a little space. The walls begin to take shape.
\nGoucher Collects: Schools of Thought will open April 6 in the Silber Gallery. To learn more about the exhibit, visit www.goucher.edu\/gouchercollects.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"