HANOVER, N.H.- The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College announces People’s Picks, a special opportunity for visitors to choose their favorite work of American art from the museum’s current exhibition American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art. Beginning September 1, visitors of all ages are encouraged to choose their favorite work of art and tell the Hood why they like it. Visitor responses will be selected and published on the Hood’s Web site and highlighted in the galleries. Throughout November, members of the Hood staff will offer four People’s Picks tours highlighting selected works chosen by our visitors. Ballots and informational materials will remain in the galleries through November 4.

“We feel it’s important for the exhibition to have a public voice,” notes Amy Driscoll, Assistant Curator of Education at the Hood. “We hope people will come in and really spend some time with this extraordinary exhibition and tell us what they think. People can come back and vote again and again, particularly given that the second part of the exhibition will open on September 22, offering an entire new gallery filled with more incredible works from the American collection. This is a fun and informal way to get involved in the museum and will give visitors the chance to hear from and share with other visitors about what they find interesting about these works of American art.”

American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of will be on view through December 9, 2007. This exhibition spans two floors. Works dating from roughly 1900 to 1950 are on display in the first-floor Sack Gallery, and works from the eighteenth century through 1900 are on view in the second-floor galleries. On September 22, American Works on Paper to 1950 will open on the second floor and feature works on paper such as photographs, prints, drawings, and watercolors.

People’s Picks tours:
Wednesday, November 14, at 5:00 P.M.
Tuesday, November 20, at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, November 29, at 12:30 P.M.
Saturday, December 1, at 2:00 P.M.