Teaching Museum at Beloit College

Wright Museum of Art

A space for experiential learning through a critical engagement with art – one that is visual, tactile, and intellectual.

Student looking at woodblock print process.

A Student-Centered Museum

Students studying Suzanne Duchamp drawing. In 1894 the Wright Museum of Art was established as a teaching museum. Continuing in that tradition, we believe that students learn by doing.

In our galleries…

Beloit College students assist in curating many of our exhibits. Students engage in background research and help write the wall texts. They also help design the exhibit layout, frame and hang the artwork, and create marketing and educational materials.

..and behind the scenes.

Beloit College students assist museum staff with caring for the works of art. Responsibilities entrusted to students include: inventory, collections research, mount making, and photography.

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Transfiguration: A Black Speculative Vision of Freedom

Transfiguration spotlights how visual narrative at the heart of Afrofuturist practice is part of a longer Black speculative tradition.

Beloit College artists Brooke McCammond and Hannah Kang spent approximately 14 hours per week on the mural at Beloit Memorial Hospital.

Beloiters team up with Beloit Health System to bring art to hospital

The Beloit Memorial Hospital stairwell walls were a blank canvas and spurred a partnership between Beloit College faculty and students and Beloit Health System.

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