Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University opened in 2005 with a building designed by Rafael Viñoly as the center for the visual arts on campus. The museum promotes engagement with the visual arts among a broad community including Duke students, faculty, and staff, the greater Durham community, the Triangle region, and the national and international art community. The museum presents an ambitious schedule of exhibitions that travel to major institutions around the world, and has a growing collection of international contemporary art. The Nasher Museum has received more than 80,000 visits from students since it opened. Also in that time, the museum's community education programs have served more than 32,000 K-12 students.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University promotes engagement with the visual arts among a broad community including Duke students, faculty, and staff, the greater Durham community, the Triangle region, and the national and international art community. The museum is dedicated to an innovative approach, and presents collections, exhibitions, publications, and programs that attain the highest level of artistic excellence, stimulate intellectual discourse, enrich individual lives, and generate new knowledge in the service of society. Drawing on the resources of a leading research university, the museum serves as a laboratory for interdisciplinary approaches to embracing and understanding the visual arts.
ANNUAL REPORT
Download the Nasher 2012 Annual Report - just click on the cover image to the right.
(54 pages, PDF format - 2.7M)
COVER: Visitors take in Alexander Calder's Chat-Mobile (Cat Mobile) . Photo by J Caldwell. Alexander Calder, Chat-Mobile (Cat Mobile) (detail), 1966. Painted sheet metal and steel wire, 20 x 26 x 26 inches. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan (EL1995.10) © 2012 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS).
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