January 13 – May 9, 2026
The Study Room is a hybrid gallery-classroom for the close study and analysis of works from the Tweed’s collection. Each semester UMD faculty and students from across academic disciplines animate this space through lively discourse, collaborative learning practice, research, and the generation of exhibitions, installations, programs, and
responsive assignments.
The Study Room supports the museum’s ongoing commitment to academic engagement, object-based teaching, pedagogical innovation, and the creation of communal spaces for students to participate in sustained and meaningful experiences with art and one another. We invite all museum visitors to join the conversation and engage with the diverse array of objects and interdisciplinary ideas presented in this active, experimental space.
Spring 2026 Study Room is activated by Paula Derdiger, Associate Professor of English and Robin Murphy, Assistant Professor, Foundations, Art & Design Department.
On View
Drawings, paintings, prints, posters, and photographs by Leonard Baskin, Margaret Bourke-White, William Clutz, Dolores Purdy Corcoran, Ben Cunningham, Roy De Forest, Elliott Erwitt, Jedd Garet, Jun Kaneko, Chris Monroe, Robert Priseman,
Lawrence Beall Smith, Grant Wood, and a selection of WWII propaganda posters
ENGL 3695 (Special Topics) | War: Literature, Film, Culture
War: Literature, Film, Culture invites students to investigate how literature and culture mediated World War II, by far the deadliest and arguably the most politically and ethically extreme of all wars in human history.
What responsibilities, if any, do literature and other media have during wartime? How do literature and culture generate distinct knowledge about war?How might the class case study suggest broader insights and challenging questions about the relationship between aesthetics, history, and politics?
ART 1010 | Drawing 1
Drawing 1 is a perceptual drawing class with a focus on learning to draw from life. Students are introduced to experiences and problems concerned with the translation of three-dimensional visual information to a two-dimensional surface. Compositional choices and the qualities of line, shape, values, and visual textures that suggest spatial depth are explored and built upon throughout the semester.