Explore the Stark Museum of Art with custom soundtracks curated just for you! Each playlist features a selection of songs inspired by an exhibition or work of art at the Stark Museum of Art. Listen along while you work, play, or visit the museum.
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Gallery 1
16 songs, approximately 1 hour
Gallery 2
20 songs, approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes
Gallery 3
17 songs, approximately 1 hour
Gallery 4
18 songs, approximately 1 hour
Gallery 5: The Color Orange
17 songs, approximately 1 hour
Lobby: The American Birds of Dorothy Doughty
18 songs, approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes
Lobby: A Collector’s Life in Cars
13 songs, approximately 50 minutes,
Lobby: A Collector’s Life in Cars (SMA Road Trip)
13 songs, approximately 3 hours and 30 minutes
Hallway 2: The United States in Crystal
21 songs, approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes
Summer Days: Inspired by Fremont Ellis’s “Summer Clouds, New Mexico”
15 songs, approximately 55 minutes
Past Exhibitions
Special Exhibition: Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West
Travel through music history with a soundtrack curated especially for you from the Stark Museum of Art! This playlist features songs inspired by the quilts on view in Black Pioneers: Legacy in the American West on view at the Stark Museum of Art March 2 – August 3, 2024.
This playlist chronologically explores the path of eighty years of music through the voices of Black women. From Sister Rosetta Tharpe, to Tina Turner, to SZA, there is something for everyone!