Marina’s writing explores what looking at artwork can teach us about seeing the art of our ordinary lives.
Museal Fitness 01, Karine Marenne, IMAGE VIA ARTSPER
Newsletter
The Museum Gaze (2021 - present), a Substack newsletter that explores how looking at life with the same embodied gaze we use with art in a museum can open us up to wonder, compassion, and empowerment
Selected essays:
Series
Art for the Wilderness (2022), a seven-week series that looked at what we can learn about navigating periods of wilderness from artists who engage with difficult experiences through their art
Artful Advent (2021), a four-week series to help parents of little children to nourish themselves in a busy season by looking at their lives like art
Online
“Sister” (2023), Khôra, Issue 26
“Shadow Revelations” (2023), Mothering Spirit
“Terrible News and Beautiful Fruit” (2022), Anthrow Circus
“Illumination in the Detroit Institute of Arts” (2017), Culture Keeper
“Retreating in The Met” (2016), Culture Keeper
“Fostering Imagination in Museums” (2016), Culture Keeper
“Annunciation” (2022), Episcopal Charities Lenten Reader
Blog
Imaginibus (started in 2014), a blog with over 200 articles on museums, art history, and looking at life like art. Learn more here.
Selected articles:
How people describe Marina’s writing
“Engaging, full, and juicy”
“Insightful, hopeful, clear-eyed, empowering”
“Full of surprises. Luscious.”
“Like a warm hug”
About Marina
Marina Gross-Hoy (she/her/elle) is a writer, Museum Studies PhD candidate, and mother. She takes playing in museums very seriously.
Originally from Michigan, Marina moved to museum-saturated Paris to complete a master's in muséologie at the École du Louvre and work in the education department of a Parisian museum. She moved back to North America for a PhD program in Museum Studies at the Université de Québec à Montréal, focusing on how museums develop digital projects to create engaging experiences for visitors. She also serves on the board of the Committee for Education and Cultural Action within the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
Marina writes about playing with new ways of paying attention to embodied experience. Her writing has appeared in Khôra, Mothering Spirit, and Anthrow Circus.
She currently lives in the Eastern Townships of Québec with her family.
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